Woman

Over the summer I was never short of something to read thanks to the generous parents who left all their magazine and books behind when they went home. Unfortunately, the majority of these parents, being older, more worldly and, well, parents, had different tastes in magazines from us young uns. No problem, I figured, a magazine’s a magazine, right? I mean it’s in English, it’s up to date and it’s readable. And so, had you been in my resort over the summer, you would more likely than not have seen me reading Good Housekeeping, Ok, Hello and Woman’s Weekly, rather than my normal 19, More, Heat and so on. Woman, though, is the magazine that ...  Read the complete review

Magazines are my vice, (along with chocolate) recently I came into possession of a large pile of Woman magazine from my mum. Normally I wouldn't read a magazine like this, I tend to stick to Cosmopolitan, and Glamour or Company when I want something extra to leaf through. But with my mum engrossed by my cosmo, I decided to read hers for something to do. On all of the ones I have, the first thing that jumps out at me is how busy the cover is! Whereas the type I read usually has one cover person and headlines around the edge; this one has 6 people dotted over the cover. There's a headline above the title and then the front page is split into 2 longways. On the ...  Read the complete review

This is not a magazine I would buy myself, however, my Mother In Law buys it an passes it along to me when she has finished with it. A new issue is out every Tuesday costing 90p. The magazine is an OK read but I usually flick through it just reading the odd story so it doesn't take me long to get through but it is good to sit down with a cup of tea and have a flick through it! The magazine is set out as follows: The first page is the contents of the magazine with a 'Hello' from the editor. The next two pages then cover the main 'celebrity' stories of the week. When I say celebrities it is usually ex soap stars, the ...  Read the complete review

I am not a magazine reader. I used to buy Glamour religiously until I actually paid attention to how much of the magazine I was reading and it was about 10 percent of it, so I was wasting my money. There and then I stopped buying them. My boyfriends daughter is still at the stage of wanting to read the glossy magazines about the c-list, or should that be z-list celebrites, so I now and again flick through one of them to see if they've changed and become something that I would want to read, or when I want something to send me to sleep. I picked up a copy of Woman yesterday and what a let-down. All the stories are just mirror images of past ...  Read the complete review

AH! Another interesting magazine packed full of interesting stories and features, so I thought. Unfortunately I was greatly mistaken and very disappointed. I have purchased 5 issues spread over 10 weeks to see if the content actually changed and that I wasn?t just making a judgement on one bad issue. The was relly upset to find the fashion articles on pages 3 & 4 only contained clothing for sizes sizes of 8-18; there are some people (me included) who wear larger sizes? Approximately 10 - 12 pages are taken up with advertvertisement for various products. Why oh why was Eastenders on the cover of 4 out of the 5 magazines I purchased. ...  Read the complete review