Take A Break

I would say that this has to be one of the best weekly magazines available. Each new edition is available every Thursday from all good newsagents or supermarkets. The magazine starts with a double page feature called Take a Break Street which is full of readers photographs and funny captions, a great mix is found here from cute to funny. The page also has the magazne contents. Going on through the magazine we have loads of great stories. All of the stories featured are from real readers and have real names and photos. I do find that the majority of the stories are about illness and death but do show how couragious people are in overcoming their problems. ...  Read the complete review

Never have I read a magazine so stuffed full of human suffering, I read Take A Break from the very first issue and gradually it dawned on me that I don't very much like reading about people's heartaches and dire medical problems. I carried on buying it for a while because of the excellent competitions they run, of which I've been a winner a few times over the years, but no more. I've had it with the whining reader submissions, the short stories are rubbish now and if I read the story of one more poor child struck down by illness then I think I may do something silly. Of course I am certainly not belittling the suffering of others, indeed as a Christian I ...  Read the complete review

I work on average 6 days out of 7 and work some really strange shifts so when it comes down to my hour long break a day I really don't know what to do with myself. As a child I used to always get a copy of Shout magazine from my gran she used to buy me one from the local paper shop and give it to me every Tuesday when I stayed at her house but as I grew older I got really bored if it and wanted some thing new to focus my attention on so I started reading my mums Take a Break and I loved it! It was always full of competitions (which I loved) and real life stories that where really interesting. After that I became totally hooked and now I get my gran to get the ...  Read the complete review

Once upon a time, my dear and lovely friends, I was like you. I read respectable magazines; I'd even go so far as to say that some of them were 'cool'. My coffee table warmly embraced Marie Claire, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, The Face. Visitors to my house were impressed by the quality articles, the cutting edge photography, the current events reportage. But no more. As of the last few months I have consigned myself to a hell which is entirely of my own creation. Yes, the evil that I speak of is Take a Break magazine. I can hear your shocked gasps, the sheer and utter disbelief that there is a soul under the age of 65 who will publicly confess to an addiction which ...  Read the complete review

Okay, so it's a woman's magazine. And I'm a bloke. But I still love this magazine. I rarely read the big article though. That's my wife's job. I buy this in the vain hope that my puzzle entry will be drawn from the millions of others and I get a cheque for £3000 or a holiday or a care. Now priced at 78p it's a cheap alternative to a lot of weekly mags and it does what it sets out to do. It provides short ten to fifteen minute breaks away from housework, work, the kids, whatever. I do all the puzzles except the codeword and rarely struggle with the answers. Often you can guess the prize word and still have half a puzzle left to do. I have never won ...  Read the complete review