It's always worth reading while you s••t!

Sorry about the title, but I didn't know what to say.

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OK, so you go to s••t at least once a day (more often if you have diarrhoea). You can waste that time with one end of you piling cr•p-on-cr•p … but how about using the other end for reading :) — This is intended for those that don't read: Please put up a shelf or a place to keep books in you toilet.

My toilet (like many of my friends) has a place that has books

Mir, Ghalib, Faiz

So there are three Shaeri books
that are permanently there

&

Then there are always temporary books.

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Here are the ones that live on the shelf these days.

I love Short Stories

(who wants to read a whole novel there!)

or pieces that you can randomly browse through.

Graphic Novels are great here. 

This one was a gift from Joe Sacco,

one of my favouritest graphic novelists.

(Thanks, Muneeza, for carrying it back for me)

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And one always has books that are favourites
and readable anywhere, anytime.

Mine, at the moment, is

which has become available among old books.

Try Amazon.

The Rape of the A*P*E* (American Puritan Ethic) is the ultimate sex book. It is the hilarious but true story of 27 salacious years of American history - the Sex Revolution - America's longest and hottest war. Allen Sherman: "There is a brief but telling instant when a boy is taking off a girl's underpants, during which she must give her assistance; if she doesn't lift her behind a split second, it is impossible. Ours was a nation of girls who would rather die than openly contribute to their own seduction. It is a tribute to the girls of 1940 that they learned how to lift their asses without seeming to be lifting their asses. Sometimes they did it with a ho-hum and a stretch, pretending to be utterly bored, meanwhile shifting their position just long enough for the expert panty snatcher to do his job. I have witnessed it many times, this fantastic arabesque girls do and every time I am overwhelmed with the sheer creative artistry of it. It belongs among the great moments of ballet.

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If you really like small pieces to read,

there's Blinklist, anyway.

It's a superb introduction and a collection

of books that you may love to buy later,

or be happy with the stuff already there.

Here's an example from today's FREE book.

Don't forget that you can read this

(and the following 6-7 pages)

or even have them read out to you.

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My request is to please read.

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One of the ways that our nation is in a terrible way

is because they don't read.

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Some of you may not like to read

… for which I'd first suggest seeing a psychiatrist …

but there is a solution:

Audible

is exceptional.

I listen to AudioBooks very frequently and it is great when I am on a long drive (I don't drive, but my wife is the driving force in the house) or in the s••house. If you haven't tried it, go to Audible and try a FREE trial. Or, if you are not into subscribing, look at LoyalBooks and find free audiobooks.

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While I was writing this blogpost a friend turned up

and saw my photographs.

She wanted to see the Metal Bookend and where did I get it.

I showed it to her (she loved it!) and told her that

this was available years ago in Karachi

when we were a slightly more civilised society.

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For others, here it is

(Remember toilets with a chain and cistern above your heads)

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Sad for me was the fact that

Sabeen wanted it to be given to her after I die.

I wrote this on its bottom and shared it with Ragni Marea.

How awful that she was assassinated.

We all miss you, Sab.

Immensely.