Bathroom reading their phones while on the toilet. The term "bathroom reading" refers to any literary material deemed suitable for casual or light reading. In 2011, the Canadian author Margaret Atwood wrote: Pulp magazines were associated with bathroom reading, which the film "Pulp Fiction" references in repeated scenes of John Travolta's character Vincent Vega reading the pulpy spy novel "Modesty Blaise" while sat on a toilet. Bathroom reading also refers to a genre of books containing humor and trivia, such as the "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" series. In James Joyce's novel "Ulysses", the protagonist Leopold Bloom reads a magazine on the toilet
Bloom (novel) Bloom (novel) Bloom, written in 1998, is the fifth science fiction novel written by Wil McCarthy. It was first released as a hardcover in September 1998. Almost a year later, in August 1999, its first mass market edition was published. An ebook reprint was published in 2011. "Bloom" is one of Borders' "Best 10 Books of 1998" and is a "New York Times" Notable Book. The premise of the book is how to handle human technology that has evolved beyond human control. "Bloom" is set in the year 2106, in a world where self-replicating nanomachines called "Mycora" have consumed Earth