Following the discussions in the E-books thread, one cannot help wondering how many of honourable Literature Network members actually read in the bathtub and how many of them consider this an utterly unacceptable activity to be abhorred.
I quite enjoy doing this (though I am not a bath-person due to health reasons mostly).
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Woo, hoo, yay, yay!!!
Where would one be without the daily bath time read?
Really, the bath time read offers a quiet, meditative escape from the trials and toils of daily life.
Take one book (paper), one hot bath, soak for 30 minutes daily, and you too will benefit from a more relaxed life.
(Oh, and a cold beer after the bath works wonders too.)
It is the best place to read.
Better than the shower anyway.
Originally Posted by Neely
Woo, hoo, yay, yay!!!
Where would one be without the daily bath time read?
Really, the bath time read offers a quiet, meditative escape from the trials and toils of daily life.
Take one book (paper), one hot bath, soak for 30 minutes daily, and you too will benefit from a more relaxed life.
(Oh, and a cold beer after the bath works wonders too.)
You create wonderful imagery Neely! The men of LitNet populate my mind with intensely lyrical, incredible and vivid imagery, including some I don't see.
In practice I'm basically a shower (and sometimes beer) person myself.
Good stuff
edit: Including some men I don't see, I should say... I see the mental imagery. Isn't it funny that through writing practice you start to notice all those dangling participles or whatever they're called?
Last edited by Vonny; 10-16-2011 at 01:16 PM.
Yea indeed! Even better if you've got a nice glass of something red, fat bubbles and candles. Nothing more relaxing.
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I have never read in the bath, I have my computer sometime close by to watch a movie but never read.... but maybe I should try and I have to admit it does sound good to lie in a bubble bath with something red and a book....
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I read in the shower! I blu-tac sheets of paper to the outside of the glass - mostly poetry, for learning, and sheet music, for bathroom recitals.
I used to love reading in the bath, but then I grew all tall and now no longer fit comfortably in a standard tub. It would be very pleasent, were it not for one's knees getting cold...
Qualified Aye!
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Last edited by Vonny; 10-16-2011 at 02:51 PM.
I have no objection to reading in a bath other than for me, books and water have never been a good mix. A capsizing once ruined a lovely afternoon on the lake with a very good (and annoyingly hard to come by) book - since then i keep my books and water separate.
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Baths? Far too much bother. Showers only. Then read in a chair. (I have perfected the 2 min shower).
This is me exactly. A lot of old paperback books work well for me since I tend to be in the rain, etc. This is also one reason the e-reader isn't so great. And everything where I live ends up in the lake. We've had to drop a magnet down 60 feet to pull up a set of keys that fell in. Even the cat fell in the lake, but came out fine - An e-reader: don't even take it on the boat or near water.
Aye, but mostly I read magazines or cheap paperback for fear of dropping them.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
That is genius!
You know what else is nice? If it's raining outside, leave the window open.
Well, I'm off to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles in the bath
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I was just thinking... "Hmm, that's funny, I don't remember Chris complaining of his knees being cold." It was a memory of when I was 19 and I got into a bathtub with a guy who was 6'4".
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