Summer Lovin'

A Vintage Affair
Isabel Wolff
Harper Collins

Okay, haters, er, I mean loyal blog readers ... I have an admission to make that just might provoke images of the apocalypse.   Prepare yourselves.  Ready?  I bought a Kindle a few weeks ago.  An even bigger admission?  I LOVE IT!!!

I never in a million years thought that I would become a fan of the e-reader.   I'm a committed bibliophile, for goodness sake, and I have shelves, cupboards, cabinets and nightstands brimming with books that have already been loved or are waiting to be read.   The smoothness of a cover between my fingers, the weight of a novel in my hand, or that delicious feeling that I get when I manage to read a 800 page tome without ever cracking the spine just thrill me.  Utterly.   The act of reading is as much a part of the experience as the words on the page.  Or so I thought.

A Vintage Affair was my first e-read and I absolutely adored it.  Set in Hempstead, Phoebe Swift, a former Sotheby's clothing specialist decides to open a vintage clothing store and in the process, works through some of her own baggage from the past.  Dealing with the death of a close friend and a failed relationship, Phoebe throws herself into her work and forges new ties that help her face her past.  This is a lovely story -- let's call it chick lit with substance -- and I highly recommend it as a solid summer read.

In fact, I had been curiously attracted to the cover of this novel a number of times in the bookstore, but refused to buy it because I didn't want to pay trade paper back prices for "chick lit."  The Kindle edition was much cheaper and, well, I found the reading experience to be completely different, but curiously, no less enjoyable.  I guess once you get lost in a good book the rest just falls away.  A Vintage Affair gets three cupcake dresses out of five.