Musing Mondays #17

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Every week a new 'musing' question is posted by the host for all participants to answer in their own posts.

This week's musing is:

Do you read magazines? If so, which ones? If not, why not?

The short answer is no. If you want a longer one, read on :P

I used to, but I haven't bought a magazine for ... probably going on 5 years, now. I used to read Kerrang! Magazine, which is a British Magazine about rock and metal music (and I live in Birmingham, which is where the radio is broadcast as well, so it used to be literally all around me), but I haven't read that, as I said, for about 5 years (or near enough).

I did also used to get Books Quarterly, which was a magazine produced by Waterstones (where I work), and it had a load of articles from authors, and review pages etc, which were really interesting, and I would still read this, but unfortunately, Waterstones stopped it around a year ago (probably just over).
I will, on occasion, pick up my mum's Good Housekeeping, or something, but only if there is an article mentioned on the cover that sounds interesting - otherwise, I leave it alone.

I've never been one to read the celebrity gossip magazines, or anything like that, either. In fact, I don't think I've ever read one. It's just not the type of thing that interests me in the slightest. And fashion magazines are a no as well - I'm not the type of person that follows fashion (in fact, not a lot of it really suits me), so I just go with what suits me, and what's comfortable (no one usually sees what I'm wearing anyway - I'm usually cuddled up inside, with a book! ;P).