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Summary: Shop for this!!!
Review: Sophie Kinsella introduces "Becky Bloomwood" who has a job at a newspaper in London. Not to mention an overdraft that keeps increasing, or should I say it is decreasing her banking account. And she has creditors who are knocking at her door and sending her letter after letter, amusing the reader with the excuses people will use in life. Becky Bloomwood was born to shop, and she loves clothing. Credit is due to her, in her attempts to expand her knowledge of "accessories" even in the workplace and work-related events:
"The FT [Financial Times} is by far the best accessory a girl can have. It's major advantages are: 1) It is a nice color.
2) It only costs eighty-five pence, and 3) ...people take you seriously. With an FT under your arm, you can talk about the most frivolous thing in the world and insteead of thinking you're an airhead, people think you're a heavyweight intellectual who has broader intereste too."
And Becky does have broader interests...like that new scarf at "George and Denny's" and her new handbag and...Luke Brandon, head of Brandon Communications. She sees him at all of these financial press conferences that interrupt her chances to take advantage of sales in her favorite stores. Or just any sotre. I also give Becky credit in that she guatantees to maintain her intellectual image. But unfortunately MY credit does not suffice for Becky's overdrawn bank accounts. She has to pay her bills and she struggles as her flatmate Suze helps her with her money issues. Somehow, the reader manages to love Becky because she is so honest and blatant about her knowledge - or lack of it - to the reader, at least. "So anyway. There I am with the FT tucked under my arm, thinking I look pretty good, and half-wishing that someone from "Just Seventeen" would pop up with a camera."
Hey, don't we all wish these things as we go through life, having to maintain an image while also maintaining our good spirits?! I read all three of the "Shopaholic" books, and Becky Bloomwood, now that I have finished the trilogy, is like a lost friend to me - I miss her!
But I cannot wait to read Kinsella's next novels!!!
Anyone who loves to shop, read, and laugh will enjoy this one!
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Summary: Painful to Read
Review: One of the worst written books I've ever come across, the writing is awful, as if the writer was just trying to cash in on the recent sludge of chick books. Cute cover, but that's about it, the rest of the book is worthless.
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Summary: oh please
Review: This book was AWFUL. It's nothing more than a poorly-done, thinly veiled ripoff of Bridget Jones' Diary only with a far more annoying and less sympathetic main character. And is the author even actually British? I can't find any information on her but it felt like she just threw in British slang here and there as an afterthought so it would make the book trendier. I'm sorry I wasted time reading it.
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Summary: Hilarious...and Frightening
Review: I squirmed in my seat through most of this book...it was like a funny, surreal, living nightmare. Becky's incessant rationalizing is nothing other than perfection-the excuses Becky makes to herself are incredibly accurate...and FUNNY! Funny, because most have us have given ourselves these exact excuses... This book made me very agitated, though..as Becky dug herself deeper and deeper into debt, I found myself annoyed to the point of being uncomfortable. This is something my nightmares are made of- an incredibly frusterating, lingering, self-generated predicament. Becky's never ending lack of self-control was bordering on the pathetic, but this portrayal was carefully covered up with the humorous, naive, and flat-out ridiculous thoughts that continued to run through her head. Anyone who truly has a problem with BLOWING all their money should read this book.
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Summary: A fun and easy read
Review: I finished this book in a weekend. It was a lot of fun, and such an easy read. Very close along the lines of Bridget Jones' Diary as far as story line and the thought process of the main character. Becky's shopping problem and ability to justify her purchases is so easy for me to relate to. Any woman who has a bit of a shopping problem and is considering the book, do give it a try...you will not be dissapointed.
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Summary: Really appeals to me because I am a shopaholic myself.
Review: Kinsella's writing is realistic and I really believe that the events that happens in the book are real. The character as in a way where it may happen to a shopaholic.
If you read this book because you need ideas to solve your spending problems then you got the wrong idea.
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Summary: Fun, Light, Entertaining....................................
Review: Meet Rebecca Bloomwood, a financial journalist and professional shopper. Rebecca's never met a sale she didn't like, nor a purchase she couldn't rationalize making. She's able to blithely stumble her way through both her professional and personal life--ignoring her finances, tossing letters from both her bank and the credit card companies into the "skip" ("it's not my fault if I never got them, is it?"); and accomplishing just enough in her work environment to get by, finding it all incredibly boring. As a result, she is not at all taken seriously on the financial circuit....; and then something happens that is very serious, and forces Becky to take serious stock of both her professional and personal life--and eventually forces her to heed her own advice. This novel was a joy to read....and many the compulsive shopper will certainly be able to relate to the loveable albeit flaky Becky Bloomwood.
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Summary: Confessions of a Shopaholic Review
Review: I think that this book, Confessions of a Shopaholic, is a hilarious novel. The character Becky Bloomwood is really funny and the things that happen to her are even funnier. I just think this book is fascinating because Becky can just shop for hours and not feel a bit tired. I would recommend this book to anyone really because it is so entertaining and funny!
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Summary: Shopaholic series
Review: I enjoyed the entire "Shopaholic" series but I gave it 4 stars rather than 5 only because the books are easy to read and great way to just zone out and relax, they are not great literature. But they are rather fun to read and hard to put down because you are always wondering what the next crisis Becky will get herself into and how she will get herself out. You can relate to her if you have an ounce of the "shopaholic gene" in you, although, I wonder if there are people out there that are this crazy about shopping and if they get themselves this seriously in trouble. I consider myself a shopaholic but I have never gotten in the situations Becky has gotten into, not even close !
I have reccommended them and loaned the books to all my friends and we all agreed they are a great summer book to read or a way to get away from boredom and monotony of everyday life with a giggle. Do not expect a deep or serious novel with Sophie Kinsella's writing. She writes for the 20's and 30's woman who has a sense of humor.
I look forward to more books by Sophie Kinsella.
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Summary: Confessions of this shopaholic
Review: If your a true born shopaholic then you have to give this book five stars. This is the story of Becky Bloomwood who just can't seem to stop shopping. Her bills are out of control her phone is ringing off the hook. Becky has tried everything to make her troubles go away. Hidding the mail, fibbing the the bill collectors, trying to get a bigger overdraft. Alas nothing works. What a stressed out girl to do...Go shopping! In the mean time Becky comes up with some pretty crazy things to get herself out of debt. You laughs as Becky get herself deeper and deeper (in dept). You'll understand her plight being the natural born shopper that you are. You can't help but like Becky. She is the friend we wish we all had. The inner shopaholic in all of us. So go out and spend spend spend... some money on this book:)
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