The Vinyl Café Diaries by Stuart McLean

Hi everyone, I'm back again (I know, I read fast, one of the perks of reading a couple books at once).

This book, one in a series of many written about The Vinyl Café is absolutely hilarious. The book itself is split into 4 sections, Dave, Morely, Stephanie and Sam and each section starts with a letter about each character. It's a riveting romp through University life, school field trips, Christmas, book clubs and much more. It's truly a stellar read and I think that everyone, regardless of whether or not you enjoy The Vinyl Café, would get a kick out of it.

At the end of the book, in the afterword written by Stuart McLean you get to know exactly how the radio show came into being and the things that inspired the stories and characters. If you read the book you have to read the afterword, it's very enlightening and a little bit of a riot. This book is something I might tell stories out of because they never get old and I'll keep coming back to it again and again simply because the stories, not just in this book but in all of them, are timeless, no matter how many times you read them they never stop being funny.

Stuart McLean is one of my favourite story tellers of all time, I look forward to The Vinyl Café every week and if, by some unhappy coincidence, we end up listening to, or watching something else I feel a tad put out (But I get the Podcasts through iTunes so it's all good, I have to catch up on those actually).

I know, this review was a bit short but it's late (or early, depending on how you look at it) and I really should get some sleep. One of my friends has asked me to go the bookstore with her tomorrow and I kind of really want to be awake for that (I like bookstores, but they're bad for your bank account, especially if you're a voracious reader like myself). As always feel free to suggest books in the comments or via twitter or, if you have me on Facebook, via Facebook, I also have a Tumblr you can message (My Tumblr and my Twitter is in my blog description).

As always keep reading and writing and I hope to post again soon! (Of course I have to finish another book first).