Lilly, I Love You

I've toyed for about three minutes with wanting an iPad, but it wasn't until I wandered into
Barnes & Noble tonight that I decided maybe I should get a Nook.
Shown above: the Lilly Nook Tote, $69.95 and absolutely gorgeous.

I took a walk at the park with Sug, visited Dad at Van Dyk and drove to Clifton Commons to pick up Figgy and A., who had walked to Barnes & Noble after a movie.

Let me go in and see if there are any new cookbooks I have to have, I thought. And what to my wondering eyes should appear as soon as I walked in but a table promoting the B&N Nook reader. What caught my eye: The Kate Spade and Lilly Pulitzer Nook book covers. They were killing me. So beautiful. I never laid eyes on a Nook, and now I felt I had to have one, just so it could be well-dressed. Isn't that the point?

If you get a Nook just because you want to get a Lilly Pulitzer cover, that will be a giant waste of money, said A. from the back seat as we drove her home. Figgy was saying the same thing, and then that started a conversation about how everything is high-tech now, not in its organic state. Like the slender Nook vs. a good old book. 

Point well taken. [But I do know Moey loves her Kindle, and the saleswoman told me that you save a substantial amount off the B&N price of books when you buy the Nook downloads instead.]

I gather I'm quite behind on learning about this collaboration between Lilly and B&N. But better late than never. I think it launched June 23. Yikes.

Someone you know may or may not have asked the Nook saleswoman to put one of the totes [above] aside with her name on it. It will be held for three days. It could be used to carry work folders, couldn't it? And see that zippered plastic bag? You could just as easily use that for M.A.C lip balm and a tube of sunscreen, couldn't you? Or tissues and money? Thought so.

Check the link: www.nook.com/lilly.

Pink dreams.