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
The Hidden Hand (novel) London edition. "The Hidden Hand" features Capitola Black, a tomboyish protagonist who finds herself in a myriad of adventures. Southworth stated that nearly every adventure of her heroine came from real life. In the London version of the novel published by the "Guide", the characters and action were revised and relocated. "The Masked Mother" takes place in the "hilly districts of North Wales" instead of Virginia, the protagonist is discovered in Dublin rather than New York, and the war segment of the novel is also shifted from Mexico to Crimea. Some characters retain their original names, including the villain Black