Reader’s Digest, yes. I seriously wonder if there was a time when we DIDN’T take it. I saw a large print copy at my dad’s recently, and I fully expect my sister still gets it. In addition to that, growing up, we always had the likes of Life, Look, and Saturday Evening Post around the house. Maybe not all three, but who knows. We probably had a TV Guide subscription, too, since I’m pretty sure it was always in the house. National Geographic, too.
My parents did take the condensed books for some years. We always had at least a shelf or three full of them. I remember reading a few things from them. I can at least credit it with being my introduction to The Haunting of Hill House, and stuff like Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris.
Once I was living in my own places I subscribed to any number of things depending on my interests at any given time — music, hifi/stereo, movies, photography, aviation. Saturday Review. Opera News. I did take TV Guide, but off and on, I’d go back and forth on that. In later years I was off and on with The New Yorker, too. And for many years there was always the annual gift subscription to National Geographic from some grandmother or aunt or other.
