magazines.....

ok, so...the best part of the afternoon....the absolute best part....was the waiting in the waiting room with piles of magazines that i could leaf through......i make no illusion of reading any of the entertainment weekly, time, metropolitan home or gourmet of fairly recent vintage.....it is quite enough to skim the headlines, look at a few charts, smell the perfume ads.......and mostly move on.....i did enjoy a review of the deathly hallows.....written well after the book was released, so that every detail not available to those who reviewed it sight-unseen (just to say if was reviewed) could be thoroughly rehashed.....written by a true harry-fanatic.....probably my age....he declared that it was after the 4th book that rowling figured out that her audience was as much adult as anything...and began to gear her prose toward an ever aging readership......to the point that the use of the word bitch in the final installment was appropriate rather than shocking.....i's have said the same thing under the circumstances.....this article was a full 3 pages long...not a bad total for the 10 or so magazines i actually touched during my wait.......at this point the only magazine i receive weekly is the new yorker....and while i savor every word, and do not miss having to schlep out the stacks of old magazines from time to time...i do enjoy those times when i have nothing better to do than to turn pages.