Confessions. of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic Series) [Paperback] (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

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Fun and wittily told, I found myself rooting for Rebecca and wondering just how she was so blind to romance. It was easy to slip into the back of my mind, underneath the homework assignments and papers and substantial literature I was in the middle of, behind the bills to pay and the jobs to keep up with. Also, I’m pretty sure Luke Brandon was my first ever literary crush 😍 I watched the film recently and hmm… I would rather forget all about it, thanks. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. They mean they applied for jobs at The Times and The Express and Marie-Claire and Vogue and GQ, and all they got back was “Piss off.

I think it's hilarious that these books dominate the "chick-lit" scene when they are, in fact, the most sexist books I've managed to come across.

She is the kind of character you start to feel for from the very first page, wether you identify with her or not (unfortunately for me, I do). Although, I hope Sophie Kinsella will include more and more moments with Luke and Becky in this novel hahaha. Deep spirals of debt don't touch her very real compulsion because of the avoidance and rationalizations that come so easily to her. Red carpet premieres, velvet ropes, paparazzi clamoring for attention—suddenly Becky has everything she’s ever wanted.

Confident, single and happily living in des-res Fulham with her best friend Suze, she's a financial journalist who spends her days writing articles advising other people on the importance of budgeting and prudent investing. While the movie could benefit from some things in the book that they didn't use, the book would benefit much more from the movie. She's bad at her job, she's completely self-centered and selfish and annoying, completely focused on outward appearances and and seems to think that the universe owes her a sweater. I saw so much of myself in the main characters spending personality that it just made me laugh all the way thru reading it. Over the next few days, when I would be taking my 20 minutes for lunch, I started to leaf through the book for lack of better reading material (I had read the copy of People from three months prior so many times I could probably name the make-ups, break-ups, new babies and total tramps.I can only wonder how many fine novels have been suppressed so that this fatuous story can make it on to the bookshelves. After each failure, we watch her spend more money on things she doesn't need that leads her down a dark spiral of debt and self loathing.

She studied music at New College, Oxford, but after a year switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Where they are the most important and beautiful person on the planet, and you'll regret being not trying to be their best friend (a. I loved how the book was written, you really get an insight into the workings of Beckys thoughts and they are brilliant. Twenties Girl, I’ve Got Your Number, Wedding Night, and My Not So Perfect Life, which was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Best Fiction in 2017.I gave up credit cards as my solutions and it appears that she finds her own way to keep her credit and her life good by the books end. The book is written in a brilliant format, diary style but without the date and time headings that you would expect. Her private life is a different story though; Rebecca manages her own finances in a way that would make most of her readers' hair curl--for Rebecca is a woman on a mission--she just can't stop spending.

There will always be a sexy, successful, intelligent, no-bullshit kind of guy who will find your stupidity and poor impulse control endearing. I had known about the title of this novel since I was in the third semester, for about one and a half years ago when my lecturer asked me to read my favourite book. The writing wasn't fantastic but it wasn't terrible either, and there is a certain addicting quality about this book that doesn't let you go. Becky, to me, is a spunky heroine, and I just ate up these first few series installments (later on in the series, her antics became too intolerable for me - around book IV or V).Her own method of managing money is to hide her Visa bills under the bed and hope they’ll disappear. This is a take it to the bubble-bath as you don’t care if it gets wet kind of book but it does offer a few good laughs and some amusing moments for an easy reading afternoon.