Confessions of a Shopaholic was just the book to get me over a book hangover. It is a quick and funny read.
The book follows Rebecca Bloomwood who is deep in debt solely because of her shopping excesses. Her weak and naive attempts at controlling her shopaholic nature have as much success as... as doing yoga while gorging on potato chips would. The irony of all, she is a financial journalist writing for Successful Savings magazine. Sure the book is quite predictable, but that doesn’t take away from the entertainment of watching her stumble through tricky situations and come out clean. Makes me wish I was a character in a book.
Bridget Jones Diary is a personal favorite and I found myself comparing the two, and Confessions lagged behind. However, if you want to read something in this genre, then pick it up. But be warned it is not for the weak-hearted(read weak-walleted). All the shopping expeditions... made me feel like I just spent a bomb at a mall.
Confessions Of A Shopaholic : Sophie Kinsella
Posted by chica Labels: Chica read..., Chick Lit, Fiction, Women's Fiction
How will I ever catch up on an ever increasing list!
FictionThe Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid(chica's review)
(swati's review)
The Time Traveler's Wife: Audrey Niffenegger
Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris: Sarah TurnbullConfessions of a Shopaholic: Sophie Kinsella (chica's review)
Sacred Games: Vikram Chandra
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: Xiaolu Guo
What's Not to Love? The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer: Jonathan Ames
The Extra Man: Jonathan Ames
Wind Up Bird Chronicles: Haruki Murakami
In Arabian Nights:A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams: Tahir Shah
1984: George Orwell
Animal Farm: George Orwell
The Bookseller of Kabul: Asne Seierstad
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier: Ishmael Beah
The Book of Lost Things: John Connolly
Non-Fiction
Hiroshima: John Hersey
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars: Kevin Sites
The Question of Palestine: Edward W. Said
The Frozen Water Trade - A True Story: Gavin Weightman
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: Tom Wolfe
India's External Intelligence: Maj Gen VK Singh
Operation Blue Star: K S Brar
Games Indians Play; Why we are the way we are: V Raghunathan
Discover your Inner Economist: Tyler Cowen
Graphic Novel
Kashmir Pending: Naseer Ahmed
Hopeless Savages: Jen Van Meter, Christine Norrie, Chynna Clugston-Major
Science Fiction
Ubik: Philip K. Dick
