Book Bag: The Blackberry Diaries

Having fallen hopelessly, desperately in love with my own Blackberry, I was very excited to read The Blackberry Diaries (Key Porter, $19.95). Author Kathy Buckworth's short, interwoven tales of modern technologically-based motherhood, her kids, chaos and her own beloved Blackberry are at once hysterical and Everymommy-esque. (I mean, who hasn't been on a business call while wiping their kid's behind with one hand while trying to avoid dropping their phone into the toilet with the other?)

The book runs the span of the first year of Kathy's love affair with Seamus (yes, she named her Crackberry). She makes a not-half-bad argument that having children and having a phone share many of the same joys and frustrations. (Sadly --or not-- the phone often wins the fight.) Kathy concisely sums it up in these lines:

"My point is this: the Blackberry smartphone fits my lifestyle. It defines my lifestyle. And it will get you, too."

Indeed, it has.

--Jennifer