A Bluestocking Knits

But enough about books (for a while at least) — Booking Through Thursday wants to know what else do you read?

Magazines? Newspapers? Professional journals? Cereal boxes? Phone books? Purchase invoices? Homework? (Please be specific. There may be a test later.)

My extra-book reading is rather staid.  I subscribe to a number of magazines, with a special fondness for what they call "shelter magazines" for some reason — a less-inspiring name could hardly be found.  I get "Better Homes & Gardens", "Cottage Living", "Interweave Knits", "Martha Stewart Living", and "Real Simple", and I buy occasional issues of "Country Living" and "Natural Home" and other things that catch my eye here and there, if something in it is worth saving.  I have quite a weakness for the UK edition of "Country Living," too.  My mom gives me her old copies of "Sunset", which is one of my favorites.  Nothing literary, alas — I keep hoping that "Civilization" will start showing up again.  I don’t read parenting magazines anymore — not that I know everything, I just don’t have the time! — although I did pick up "Wondertime" the last few months and found it very appealing.  I am very disappointed — and told them so — that Martha Stewart has decided to cease publication of "Kids," which I thought was a wonderful magazine and one of the few that I save whole.  I also read David’s "National Geographic" and the "Westways" that comes with our Auto Club membership, and the girls’ "Ladybug" — we’ll be adding to their list as birthdays roll by.  I’m looking forward to my Christmas present to David of "The Economist", for which we unexpectedly found a discount coupon in Laura’s Brownie fundraiser!

I read the Los Angeles Times every morning, although to be honest I usually have time only to browse the front page, and read the local and Calendar sections, although I do love the Food and Home sections on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

I use to read cereal boxes a lot when I was a kid (Quisp! Cap’n Crunch!), but I usually eat homemade granola or toast for breakfast these days, so no boxes —