Summer Reading

I had ordered a bunch of books (or rather "reserved" them from my local library) before heading to the beach a month ago. Unfortunately not a single one came in time and have now been drifting in slowly over the remainder of the summer (which, for me, ends tomorrow). There was really only one book on the list that I really wanted to read: Bringing Home the Birkin by Michael Tonello. I finally got it and could not put it down.

For starters, Tonello is a wonderfully colloquial writer; you feel as though you're having dinner and cocktails with him while he relates this odd tale of "importing/exporting." It makes you jealous that you didn't think of it first. You feel like he's a friend, or at least someone you really want to befriend! I had trouble putting it down when it came to cook/eat dinner and then again later in the evening when I really needed to get some sleep! All in all it is one of the best "chick-lit" books I've ever read (and, ironically, it was written by a man). At points he had me laughing aloud and sharing certain passages with any who was in the the room with me.

The unofficial end of summer is quickly approaching and the lazy days of light reading will go along with them. So, while you still have the chance, run out and pick up Tonello's book. I promise it will not disappoint.