It struck me the other day, while reading the 'Oldie' magazine, how little I have been reading these magazines, indeed I appear to have stopped reading any books come to think of it. Having glanced through the mags for the most part, the 'Western Front' ones are packed full and do not require urgent reading and make a great library, while the others can take me ages to dawdle through these days, I am left wondering what is wrong with me. I have already ended the excellent 'Nutmeg' magazine (Scottish Football writing at its best) as I was four or five mags behind and had no time to read them!
Since the first 'LockDown' I have read little in the way of books, even the interesting ones, and am struggling with the ones using big words. How difficult they make it by forcing me to seek to understand what I am reading! I have managed to read Twitter and upset people, I glance through the press and scowl, and still find I read little there, most headlines sum a story up and allow me to avoid it. Twitter is of course a different world. A terrible situation this, what with the charity shops opening up and lots of books appearing and I may be in there...
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It's the price of magazines that puts me off as some are the same price as a paperback. I looked at one the other day, £6!!
Funny, I went through a phase of not reading at all. now, I feel absolutely swamped by things I want to read and don't have time for them. Neither is an ideal situation.
Nothing worth reading in the magazine line here...I subscribe to a few specialist sites online, but that is all.
I used to stock up on magazines for the flight when returning from Europe...but in later years the price made my blood run cold, so I stopped.
Dave, Indeed, the 'Oldie' alone is £4:50 unless you get a subscription deal.
Jenny, Lockdown has had its effects.
Fly, Online is good, usually.
You have such good magazines! Will we ever be able to fly from America to the UK again? I am one of those who haunt the bookstores there, wishing I had more room in my luggage.
Kay, Life will return to some sort of normality one day.
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