The caveat? It’s not like magazine shopping in New York, sadly.
Not only do I get to indulge in keeping one of my favorite pastimes alive, but it’s a good vocabulary builder as well as an efficient way to stay looped in on Italian happenings. To satiate my desire to feel glossy, bound paper between my fingers, I’ve gotten into the habit of reading Italian magazines. Here in Rome, my iPad digital subscriptions allow me to keep up with my American magazine reading and while it’s not the same as holding an actual tangible magazine in my hands, the iPad is better than nothing so I’ll take it. Book stores such as Barnes & Noble usually have a substantial magazine section and you can find a magazine for any taste or interest at Universal News, which has locations all over NYC, or the palatial Hudson News store in Grand Central. I have always had an abnormally large amount of magazine subscriptions delivered to my home, but I also found pleasure in browsing magazine selections cover after cover beckons you as your eyes wander from an appetizing bowl of pasta to an exotic emerald beach to a high fashion aesthetic to a bikini-clad woman with covetable abs, among other appealing colorful images. Magazines are beautiful! They educate and inform as well as spark creativity…what’s not to love? Each time I dispose of one, I feel like a little piece of me has gone with it. I enjoy skimming the pages or reading from cover-to-cover or just picking a select few articles and columns that tickle my fancy. I know it’s something that has to be done because I can’t keep all of them forever, but it’s with a heavy heart that I undertake this task. I love ’em all! I would always have stacks upon stacks in my room, and to this day, I still hate when the time comes to go through them and decide which are getting tossed. I’ve been obsessed with magazines since my teenage years….food, travel, wine, beauty, women’s, fashion, men’s, lifestyle, etc.
A pastime I have managed to smoothly transition into my life in Rome is my voracious magazine consumption.
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