Devotes to popular reading culture only

PAGES: The Magazine for People Who Love Books, like BOOKMARKS, is a comprehensive resource for bibliophiles. The distinguishing factor between the two periodicals is that they target at a substantially different pool of readers. PAGES is in a way for relaxed and casual in the palate of reading materials. It devotes more to popular fiction and less to literary fiction. I can make the immediate distinction through the authors and the genres of fiction Pages highlights: Michael Connelly, Danielle Steel, Nora Roberts, Nicholas Sparks, James Patterson, Janet Evanovich, Tami Hoag, Marian Keyes, and even Dr Phil.

PAGES also has a new book guide for those who keep up-to-date of new releases and the now-in-paperback selections. Book recommendations are separated into genres like romance, sci-fi, mystery, inspirational, and kids. Each issue leave readers a plethora of choices for their next book selection, yet again, the books presented here overlap very minutely with those in BOOKMARKS. The books are mostly the pocket-sized, grab-and-go-at-the-airport, comfort reading rather than some mind-boggling trade paperback literature by Nobel-prize winning authors.

One last observation is that PAGES contains page after page of paid book advertisements, from individual authors and publishers (which does not cater to my liking). PAGES is generally geared more toward popular fiction. While bookstores usually shelve popular fiction and literature under the same category, I'm happy the readers' magazines PAGES and BOOKMARKS make such a subtle but significant distinction.

2004 (30) © MY

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The main reason I buy this magazine is to get ideas on books I'd like to read but I get more information from the advertisements than from the articles. This magazine falls way, way short of its potential. Articles are usually boring and for a magazine about WRITING to have such poor writers is a shame!

This could be better.

I recently purchased this magazine and was disappointed in the lack of coverage for all genres. It seemed that a lot of thrillers were advertised and reviewed, but I like to read a little about everything. I am not a huge fan of thrillers anyway. Maybe it was the issue I purchased, so the next time I see it at a store, I will flip through it and give it another chance. I prefer a magazine that will review the authors I already love, but will also expose me to those I haven't read.