Jun 07 2006
Confessions of a preteen junky
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The past few years I’ve been reading a lot of tweenager books. Granted, some books like Harry Potter
So what was I reading as a preteen?
MAD and Cracked magazines. (Thanks to the Cracked Magazine Cover Site for the picture.) Tiger Beat and Teen Beat. National Geographic Kids. Seventeen. As a teenager, I would later graduate to Creem, Circus, and Trouser Press since I was hungry for all things punk rock and new wave (with the occasional side order of Springsteen and Cheap Trick, too).
Except for Saint Judy Blume classics like, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
I was - and still am - a magazine junky. I receive several cooking and parenting mags (love those free - or nearly free - subscriptions). I also get some writing journals, and news magazines, too. My secret indulgences are Vanity Fair, Bust, Bitch, and Smart Company. And if you haven’t discovered Brain, Child - The Magazine For Thinking Mothers yet, get a subscription NOW!
So, ‘fess up? What were you reading as a preteen (magazines or books) and what magazines do you subscribe to now?
Enquiring minds want to know!
What a great question! I was an avid reader and devoured any paperback I could get my hands on.
I religiously read series like Choose Your Own Adventure, Encyclopedia Brown, The Baby-sitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and Nancy Drew: Case Files, with a few Trixie Beldens and Hardy Boys occasionally added to the mix. I also became a huge fan of V.C. Andrews. Don’t ask.
Oh, and OF COURSE I read Judy Blume. A must for any pre-teen.
I had a subscription to every teen magazine you can think of! As for books, I was a Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine (especially the Fear Street series) junky! Later in high school I got into Stephen King and Pat Conroy and I still love them both to this day.
Just this past week, I introduced my 7 year old to R.L. Stine’s kids series’ “Rotten School” and “Mostly Ghostly”. Guess I am hoping she will catch the R.L. Stine fever too so I have an excuse to reread some of my old favorites when she gets older!
As for now…I get Parents magazine for myself and I read the Highlights, Disney Magazine and National Geographic Kids with my kids. I am really a book junky now…I will read ALMOST anything!
I love Vanity Fair, People and Oprah. But I let my subscriptions lapse because they were piling up. I don’t have enough time to read them all.
I absolutely ADORED Ramona the Great. Nothing tops that.
Except maybe the Babysitter’s Club. Am I the only one that remembers that series? :p
I have to second your endorsement of Brain, Child magazine. One of my best friends gave me a gift subscription several years ago, and I’ve been a faithful fan since. Most other parenting magazines are so precious and saccharine that they make my teeth hurt.
As a preteen I got Teen magazine and then Seventeen. I grew up reading “All-of-a-kind Family”, the “Little House on the Prairie” books, “Harriet the Spy”, plus the “B is for Betsy” series. And many, many more.
As for magazines now, how much space do I have?! I wrote a post about how addicted I am to magazines. Entertainment Weekly, Time, the new TV Guide, US Weekly, National Geographic, Food and Family, Consumers Reports, Parenting, and those are just the subscriptions I can think of without looking.
Nancy Drew!!
http://www.Cracked.com should have a new magazine re-release later this summer (been many years since they made their last issue), I can’t wait! You can alraedy buy a subscription with a free T-shirt…
http://www.CustomSignGenerator.com has some CRACK’d parody ecard/clipart generators.