My love of reading isn't just limited to books. I've been a life-long reader of magazines as well. Growing up in a family of magazine lovers and relatives that liked to give subscriptions as gifts exposed me to a wide variety of titles over the years.
Some were only read in certain "seasons" of my life: Highlights when I was a kid (and again with my kids), Seventeen as a teenager, and titles like Ladies' Home Journal as a young wife and mother. Some subscriptions have spanned decades, such as Newsweek and Mad (which I finally stopped a few years back since it just wasn't funny anymore). A few were short splurges such as Architectural Digest and The Herb Companion.
The following are my current favorites:
1. Readers Digest - My paternal grandmother lived with us when I was a kid and this was one of her favorites. I would spend hours poring through her copies. The humor sections are still my favorites.
2. National Geographic - I remember my aunts keeping their copies and sending them off to be bound together by the year. I think one had them all the way back to the very first magazine!
3. Discover - I first "discovered" Discover when I was in college. It's a great scientific magazine that isn't too technical for laymen. My favorite monthly feature is "Vital Signs" which is written by real doctors sharing unusual cases they've encountered.
4. Guideposts - I've read this since I was a teenager and remember it as a favorite of my grandmother's, too. The stories never fail to inspire and uplift me.
5. Simple & Delicious - Originally called Quick Cooking, I've prepared many a recipe from this magazine. I also get their e-mail newsletters along with those from Taste of Home, their "sister" publication.
- Kelly
- Making my way through the ups and downs of life, holding fast to my favorite Bible verse: "For we walk by faith, not by sight." ~2 Corinthians 5:7. I began blogging in earnest at Yahoo360 on October 24, 2005. (briefly using LiveJournal and blog-city prior to that) In June 2008 I moved to Blogger. I'm now at WordPress where I hope to remain.
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hmm...
People
Time
Consumer Reports
BP Magazine ( due to the boys' conditions )
Bottom Line Personal
1. Southern Living
2. Vanity Fair
3. NY Times Review of Books
4. Oxford American
5. Country Living
Right now I'm in love with Real Simple. And we got a gift subscription to Reader's Digest for Christmas and I was SHOCKED to see ads in it!
I love RD also. When we married, I had about six years of Sports Illustrated in a closet. They moved with us when we bought our first house. When my wife took over our finances, my subscription mysteriously lapsed. And all the old issues are, sadly, gone. It had some of the best writers around.
Today RD is the only mag I read regularly. I'll grab SI or ESPN Magazine occasionally and will even glance at my wife's Southern Living and Good Housekeeping at times. Great recipes in Southern Living.
Great list!
I read magazines very sparingly. Favorites:
Southern Living
Coastal Living
Newsweek
Sports Illustrated
Entertainment
Grief this is a difficult one, not to mention embarrassing. I'm afraid my choices mainly come down to those dreadful 'women's magazines' with those out of this world, ott, supposedly real life stories. A friend bought me some whilst I was in hospital and sad to say I became hooked on the prize winning competitions. Never read the stories though. Anyway in no particular order
* That's Life
* Full House
* Real People
* OK (But only when I'm at the hairdressers)
* Arthritis News (Whilst waiting for the 'physioterrorist').
Me again, a bit off topic I know (apologies) but I visited Dorte earlier and there you were or at least there was your tin. What a suprise albeit a nice one.
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