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Summary: A Delightful Book!!!
Review: I bought this unique novel based on positive reviews by my fellow reviewers. Thanks! For picky readers, Shopaholic is worth the time and money. There IS a story involved, so don't think it's a compilation of funny shopping trips. It's not like that at all. There's much more to it than that and there is meat to it.The main character, Rebecca, is a shopaholic who copes with life by shopping despite mounting debt, and looming creditors. That she is a writer for a financial magazine is pretty ironic and makes for some hysterically funny scenes. I laughed out loud even though I usually don't when I'm reading. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't relate to the book. For all her faults, Rebecca is a likable character, not some flat caricature who spends, spends, and spends. No matter how many times she falls flat on her feet, she picks herself right up BECAUSE of her cluelessness, denial, and innocence. I particularly liked the way the story moved seamlessly from one hilarious situation to another. The author also vividly captured life's most embarrassing moments, infuriating social annoyances, as well as life's highs. There's even a yummy guy thrown in for good measure. Hmmm, I know! A Pride and Prejudice for today's shopaholics! If you're a romantic girly girl at any age who likes shopping, clothes, and designer labels, you'll love this wonderfully absurd novel. I also look forward to the author's next book.
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Summary: This book is about ME!
Review: Hi, I'm the real-life Becky Bloomwood. No, not really, but if she really existed, we'd be soul sisters. Ms. Kinsella provides a wonderful, quick-read that will resonate with any twenty-something. I found myself flipping ahead a few pages just to make sure that Becky bought something she wanted. Although fictional, her journey through a financial mess and growing up is inspirational and entertaining. Read this!!!
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Summary: A must read for any woman who likes shopping
Review: I could not stop reading this book. As a fellow shopaholic I found this book to be very funny and enlightening. Sophie Kinsella does a brillant job explaining women's "need" to shop and that is developed in the main character, Rebecca. She does it in a way that is both entertaining and amusing.
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Summary: Confessions Of A Shopaholic Review
Review: I heard about this book from reading it in a magazine, and when I saw it in the book store, I was a bit skeptical as to whether or not this book would be interestng to read. The very first sentence in the book already caught my interest, and I LOVE this book! It's very well written! This book is about Rebecca Bloomwood, who loves to shop shop shop, and spends money that she doesn't have. What's even more ironic is how she's a journalist for a financial magazine! I can relate to this story, since I've been in debt before to my bank. It just goes to show you how easy it is to buy things with a credit card. This book definitely made me think of the saying: "Don't judge a book by its cover!" It's not just about shopping. You won't be sorry you read it!
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Summary: Oh No! It's my life in print!!
Review: The title drew me in, the back cover made me want it... I still feel what Becky Bloomwood feels. That desire to own something that realistically won't make us any happier, but we're sure it will make us somehow more complete. That mindset of "I just need one more purse (a red one this time), then I won't need another one ever again", till next season's purses come out! I was encouraged though, by her resilience and desire to get herself out of debt. This book made me laugh more often than not, but I hope in all the humor, it'll wake a few people up in the process. I have a friend like Suze- she's willing to "put it on her card" for me if I want it, but I prefer to shop with my sister, who gives me the "do you really need that?" look! It's a great book for the shopaholics who'll understand, and for those spendthrifts, who don't get what the prospect of a sale or a new lipstick truly means to us!
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Summary: A shelfmate for Bridget Jones
Review: Funny and fast-paced, this book explores the expenses and emotions of a young British woman whose life never seems to measure up to the one that she (continually) shops for. Punctuated throughout by increasingly less polite letters from her creditors, we follow her through her two options--cut back or make more money. The first, predictably,is a disaster--the second has unexpected and funny consequences--just when she least expects it. You will laugh out loud and, if you're anything like me, have a difficult time putting this book down. YOu may also immediately turn to the back cover to see if the author has written anything else.
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Summary: The darkly humorous side of Shop Till You Drop
Review: Writing a truly humorous novel is, I have to believe, very difficult to pull off. Heaven knows, I've been disappointed often enough. CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC, by Sophie Kinsella, is a rare gem. Rebecca Bloomwood is a single, twenty-something English lass with a serious problem. She shops beyond her means with a vengeance, blithely ignoring, sometimes discarding unread, the concerned letters from credit card issuers requesting payment. (The demands are very genteel, of course. Her creditors are British, after all.) Yet, she'll go into a panic at the prospect of losing the opportunity to buy a $540 designer scarf at two-thirds off. Ironically, Becky is also a financial journalist for the magazine "Successful Saving" - she advises readers on strategies for increasing their personal nest eggs. Becky has every good intention of paying her debts, though spending an additional $300 in a single day on Stuff is not extraordinary. The fun of this book is watching her escape from impossible situations, or hemorrhage money, despite every scheme she devises to either save or earn more income. Between chuckles, you just want to slap her out of exasperation - for her own good. Two examples ... Determined not to spend a Saturday on frivolous shopping, she decides to visit London's Victoria and Albert Museum, admission for which she thinks is free. (Save money and absorb culture, all in one go.) Unexpectedly faced with an $8 entrance fee, she purchases the $24 season ticket. Then, after trudging between exhibits, which, disappointingly, have no price tags attached, she discovers ... the Museum Gift Shop. Hoping to land a banking position in the City, she sends off a suitably embellished CV to a high-powered head-hunting firm. So impressed is the agency with her professed abilities, including a totally fictional fluency in Finnish, that its representative, unbeknownst to Becky, arranges an on-the-spot and surprise meeting between her and the recruitment director for the Bank of Helsinki. ("I can't wait to hear the two of you talking away in Finnish," chirps the rep.) This book is particularly delightful because Becky is so endearing. OK, so she rationalizes away reality, and is shallow, immature and irresponsible. However, she's not a bad, malicious person, nor is she hard-core dishonest. She's actually quite pleasant - a most agreeable person with whom to spend the day ... well, shopping. For these reasons, I rooted for her all the way to the end, at which time my faith in her essential goodness was justified. You go, girl!
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Summary: cheeky fun
Review: This book was absolutely wonderful. I am so picky when it comes to books, but this is a keeper. After reading Bridget Jones I and II, I have looked for similar types of books....light, funny, contemporary, and preferably British. Those British authors are hilarious and they tell it like it is! Many times I laughed out loud. I can relate to Becky Bloomwood and her shopping obsession...as well as her schemes to get more money. This was a great book to read after a long, stressful day!!
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Summary: RUN TO BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: Sophie Kinsella's descriptions of the joys of shopping and the terror of creditors hits the nail on the head. I must admit that even while I was immensely enjoying Becky's exploits, I was fearful that the author would resort to a "white knight" solution for Becky's tough times. It pleases me to no end that Ms. Kinsella let Becky solve her own dilemmas head on, without losing the same frenetic and hysterical tone that initially drew me into the book. I can't wait for Ms. Kinsellas next offering!
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Summary: Shoptastic
Review: OK I'm Stateside and I don't know all the references but I LOVE this book - it's me, it's my sister, it's all my friends. Becky B has some inroad into my mind and it's so true I almost hate her - but I love because she's me. I want more - what would she do if she came to shop over here, that's what I want to know! Don't keep us in suspense long. Brilliant.
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