I need a change of magazine. Have they all got worse (apart from EVE) or is it just me?

[MrsMuddle]

I love getting magazines on subscription. At the momemt I get EVE, Easy Living and Good Housekeeping. But the last few editions of GH seem to be full of adverts and menopause information and not much else. I quite like Easy Living but I really can't be arsed reading about yet another yummy mummy who lives in a pristine house, decorated soley in white with tasteful family antiques scattered casually everywhere. It's just so not like my home, or the home of anyone I know. I'm almost 40, and I feel like I'm in magazine no-man's land. What do the rest of you enjoy?

Easy Living is getting boring with all the yummy mummy biz and the clothes are RIDICULOUSLY expensive.

I used to like it a lot.

I'm in the same boat as you, MrsM.

Right now, I've got a subscription to GoodFood and Oprah.

GRazia, all the way. Great mix of intelligent features and gossip with lush fashion spreads. And it is weekly so my mag addiction is regularly satisfied.

I enjoy Red - I'm 30, but have been reading it for 5 years or so and it certainly has a readership in their 40s too. The rest of the time I read home mags like Ideal Home, and Glamour when I need a bit of young fashion nonsense.

women & home or she? I find GH is now a fashion mag full of 'style' tips. Know what you mean about the yummy mummy bit plus move abroad with super job - ahhhh!! Plus like period living & country living.

I like Eve, Red, Grazia and Instyle.

My mum gets Goodhousekeeping and Woman and Home and I think they are more aimed at her age-group tbh.

Horse and Hound
Word
Slightly Foxed
Kitchen Garden
Occasional modern art magazines if I'm passing a good art shop!

I've given up on women's mags - even Eve actually. They're all about the latest handbag for £700, and as you say, the house interiors are all white and occupied by angelic blonde children and their boho chic yummy mummies. I occasionally get a Grazia passed to me by my sister and that's light reading but nothing of interest at all.

I'm going out now, so I will buy Grazia and I'll try Red again. I used to like She, but it changed about a year ago, and it's got nothing in it now. Grazia doesn't have anything about Jade/Shilpa/Dannielle in it, does it?

My friend only reads Hello, Heat etc, then passes them on to me, but they are all full of the Beckhams and Jade Goody. My MIL took out a 5 year subscription to Glamour{hmm] magazine for me about 2 years ago. It's very much aimed at 20-30 year ols single women i think, but since she paid for it i still get it. However they do a lot of good articles on Women's health.
I don't like magazines like Chat, take a Break etc either as they are full of "true life" stories.
I can come on here and read far better true life stories

Eve great. Also like Red and liking She again since they changed editor again. Like Easy Living but haven't bought it that much as it's not one I can get regularly here.

Like Grazia but do find their front cover is always a load of baloney, not pictorially but their "headlines".

Also like Good Food and Delicious. Love decor magazines too.

I just love magazines!

Livingetc is nice. but you won't escape the yummie mummies............

The New Yorker is good. So is Granta. Oh, and Slightly Foxed, and McSweeneys. Oh, and Adbusters, if you can find it. Or Stay Free? Or The Believer, or 8 billion other decent mags, largely from North America. (The Smoke is another good British one.)

Women's magazines a giant sucking waste of space, imo. Eve is the best of a bad lot.

(Oh, I lie, Bust is pretty good, and Bitch is better.)

agree mrs muddle about the Easy living yummy mums- got mine yesterday and those two with thier fairycakes and happy t-shirts make me want to puke.whay a load of horse£$%^
"i rarely buy thingsfor the house,I just seem to aquire bits here and there"

also noticed that the fashion pages have got increasingly more expensive.
am also in age bracket you are talking about and it is a wasteland

I love granta

I used to love magazines, but find them all boring these days. SHE was the best of the bunch, but since it changed format about a year ago, it has become very boring.

Discovered Grazia two weeks ago.... its ok. Best of a bad bunch I suppose.

Best to just get a good book out of the library TBH.

Ooh and the Idler - great fun!
The Erotic Review used to be good with Rowan Pelling as editor, not sure about it now.

Nockney - you've got some good suggestions there, thank you! I'm off to google them...

Oh, now I feel guilty, most of the ones I suggest are hard/impossible to find in this country. I buy them when home. Actually, I buy nearly every magazine I can get back home - the newspapers aren't as good in Canada as they are here, but boy do they have some good magazines. (Remembered more: Toro, Maissoneuve.)

(am browsing McSweeney's website now....I'll be blaming you for the sudden dip in available funds which should be spent on general household items such as food )

That about sums it up, Cremola. Shame, because it started out really good!

I bought Vogue for the first time this week (inspired by Ugly Betty and saw the Devil Wears Prada last week) and it was good to read something so ott - how much for a friggin' handbag? Used to buy Heat or OK for celeb gossip but can't bear it now because it's always those bloody girls from Big Brother.

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I like Vogue - just because it's so far removed from my world it might as well be science fiction - but it does occasionally have some interesting articles. I go through and count the number of times Kate Moss appears (well, not really count - just go 'There she is'. 'There she is again'. 'And again' etc).

I like Granta - I keep meaning to cancel the subscription because I'm always a couple of issues behind on my reading, but can never bring myself to do it. Always enjoy it though

I used to like Marie Claire but haven't read it in yonks - has that gone downhill too?

I get Eve and have done for years. I am a bit bored of it now TBH but like the freebies that come with it so will keep up the subscription. I also got given GH as a present and although I think I am too young for bits of it (I am 30) I actually enjoy most of it. I also got the free edition of Junior and have three more copies coming for £1 each. I was VERY surprised how much I enjoyed that apart from the ridiculous fashion pages (why???).
My friend likes Red.

I used to love Marie Claire but it got SOOO full of adverts I ditched it in favour of Eve. I think I have been getting Eve for four years now