Bathtub Book
Even After the iPad; Reasons to Stick to Books.
1. You can take them into the bath.
2. You can drop them in the bath (and, if you don’t mind rumpled pages, read on, without being electrocuted.)
3. You can also drop them on the floor. (For example, at the side of your bed.)
4. You can spill tea on them.
5. Or pizza. (Though it’s not so easy to spill pizza, even on a book.)
6. They sometimes open to your favorite spots automatically. Othertimes they open to spots you hadn’t planned on, but are glad you found.
7. You can underline sentences or whole passages (if you’re kind of OCD.)
8. Or keep them absolutely pristine (if you’re really OCD.)
9. Sometimes you find things in their pages that you’d completely forgotten about—an unpaid bill, a letter from an old friend, a wilted buttercup, a spot of tea (or pizza).
10. Some books bear handwritten inscriptions, even just a name, perhaps your grandmother’s name. You might read these more closely than what’s in print.
PS – if you like elephants, check out 1 Mississippi by Karin Gustafson on home page or Amazon.
PPS- I am linking this to Bluebell Books Short Story Slam; the prompt was a girl in a bath–this may be a girl elephant.
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