I used to love Vanity Fair. I couldn't wait to buy it, and read it from cover to cover.

[applegrove]

Now I buy it and it lays around till it is a few months old and then I throw it out. Anyone else not enjoying VF? Has the magazine changed or is it me that has changed? (I also am not in the mood for novels and am reading mysteries right now..but that is normal. I go through phases while reading books).

[DeepBlueC]

1. I still like it

Although I do find those lists of Powerhouse individuals tedious; I have no interest in them at all...they must be payback lists of some kind. And what brands celebrities use... pffft. So yeah it is becoming a bit too cool for itself. But I still do enjoy the scandals of the aristocracy stories. I read it the day it comes in the mail and I still look forward to it. Hey I've just shifted to mysteries myself. I need to get the adrenaline pumping so I can get myself up for spring...I'm still kind of hibernating. Seems to be working; I got out in the garden today clearing up dead stuff to make way for new growth already started and I think I'll get bedding plants this weekend. I too have phases for books. Thought I was alone there.

[applegrove]

2. Good for you for gardening. I have some I must do but avoided it when we were up at the cottage.

Yep. I'm on a mystery kick. Think it is to flood my PTSD and get more used to creepy characters. Sort of self therapy. I've been through this phase before - about 5 years ago. Then I'll go through a phase where I cannot look at paperbacks and will read only non-fiction. Strange how our habits vary.

[DeepBlueC]

3. I just started a mystery jag two days ago, coincidentally

There was some kind of poll about narrative wizards here the other day and I came across a couple of mystery authors I have not yet read ...if they are good it will be a little treasure chest. Actually I only read hard covers. I think they are easier to hold better on the eyes ...plus when I return a paperback to the library it is embarrassing because I get more crinkles and curls in the cover than is decent. So I don't do it any more, with rare exceptions.

It was a beautiful day today. I didn;t do serious gardening but I hung some laundry out today and aired bedding so I just segued from one task to another. Hard on the back though.

[applegrove]

4. Outdoor dried laundry is the best.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. I let it sit around, too,

but that's because I'm caught up in other stuff that I'm reading.

Yesterday, though, I read the issue with Gisele on the cover. Great article about Teddy Roosevelt, another one about how the Bohemian Grove is fucking with the sequoias in northern CA, good piece about the publisher of the NY Times and what a fuck-up he is, and some that I skimmed or skipped.

I still enjoy it, but when they do -as was already posted here - their "Green" issue or the "Movers and Shakers," it's a big yawn. I like celebrity and aristocracy scandals, really mean stories about dead rich people, and dish, dish, dish............................

[applegrove]

6. I'll give it a go. I don't know enough about Teddy Roosevelt.

[DeepBlueC]

8. Bohemian Grove is a good article

he has to do a covert op to get in among the old mandarins.

[mitchum]

7. "Vanity Fair was revived so that Mick Jagger would have something to read in the bathroom"

I wish I could remember which wag said that

[kimmerspixelated]

9. Excellent!