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
Another Day in Paradise (novel) Another Day in Paradise (novel) Another Day in Paradise is a novel by Eddie Little first published in 1997. Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of the protagonist, a fourteen-year-old runaway named Bobbie, transforming from a meth addict and amateur thief to a heroin addict and accomplished safe-cracker, with the help of his mentor Mel. It was adapted into the film of the same name. At age 13, Bobbie leaves the violent, abusive home where he was raised, and this book details his following year. He has an older girlfriend, carries a gun, takes drugs, and is