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The only magazine I subscribe to is a religious one for church. I wasn’t going to respond to Weekly Geeks this week because I didn’t have anything to add. But reading the other posts has reminded me of what I’d like to read.
The Bluestockings discussion of The New Yorker reminded me that I loved reading it the year I had a subscription. Unfortunately, it takes me more than a week to read it and it comes every week. At the end of a one-year subscription, I still had 6 months to read. Maybe I’ll give it a try again.
I’ve never read The Atlantic regularly, but someone sent me a link to the article I talked about the other day and I found the entire magazine online! I’d love to read this. There are some good articles.
I read Foreign Affairs regularly for a year while in college (5 years ago). I’m embarrassed to say that while I minored in “International Studies” I am very out of the loop these days in terms of political happenings. Eva reminded me of this magazine. I should read it; much of the magazine in online and it is important.
So, I’m going to try to read some of these things. Like I said, I used to. What’s happened to me? Oh, right: I quit work and had a baby. He’s now teething and learning to crawl. I guess that takes my time from me, and I wouldn’t change that for the world.
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Eva
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I was nanny to my baby niece for a year, so I totally understand how babies cut into your reading time! I’m sure if I had my own, I’d barely get any reading done: as it was, I did it all in my off time.
How old’s your son?
Rebecca Reid
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 8:04 pm
@Eva:
My son is nine months old now. Yes, not much “off time” these days…he’s starting to take shorter naps!
J.S. Peyton
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 1:46 am
I have the same problem with my own New Yorker subscription. I virtually never finish them in a week. For a while there I too dropped my subscription but after a few weeks are started going through withdrawal. I find I deal with how far behind I am with just not thinking about it. Otherwise I might flip into panic mode.
Rebecca Reid
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 6:27 am
@J.S. Peyton:
I’m finding that most articles are online! If I consistently read some of them for a few weeks, I be able to justify buying a subscription again. I guess is the trick to not reading everything or not caring if your reading everything….