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Summary: Amazing!!
Review: I had so much fun reading this book!
For continuous fun, i'd try reading the next book Shopaholic Ties the knot.
I highly recommend this book, but only if your looking for a light book.
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Summary: Sophie Kinsella does it again!
Review: The 2nd part of the shopaholic series is just as entertaining as the 1st. This made me laugh and kept a smile on my face while reading! This one is being passed around to everyone around. READ IT. YOU WON'T REGRET IT!!!!!
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Summary: A great sequel!
Review: SHOPAHOLIC ABROAD by Sophie KinsellaHere's the follow up to THE SECRET DREAMWORLD OF A SHOPAHOLIC (or for the American reader, CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC), by Sophie Kinsella. We return to the world of Rebecca Bloomwood, the obsessed shopper with her own London morning television show about managing one's money. And that is one thing Rebecca is not good at, managing money! She spends like there is no tomorrow, and thinks credit cards grow on trees. In SHOPAHOLIC ABROAD, Rebecca finds herself in America, following her newfound boyfriend Luke, a very rich and successful business tycoon. Once again Rebecca finds herself on countless crazy adventures as she tries to interview for American television, discovers shopping in New York City, and finds herself exposed on the news. I don't know why I enjoy these books so much. I want to strangle Rebecca when I read about her crazy stunts and her silly adventures, but yet I can't help but laugh out loud. And at the end, I am always rooting for her. She's a BRIDGET JONES with a money problem, and has enough endearing qualities that I will come back for more. I am looking forward to reading the third book in the series.
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Summary: Excellent book!!
Review: I thought this sequel was just as good as the original - just as funny and Becky is starting to put a halt to her spending habits. Kinsella really makes you feel for Becky - especially when she auctions off all of her shopping finds!! I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a quick, light, and funny read. Enjoy!
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Summary: Great sequel
Review: What a great follow-up to "Confessions of a Shopaholic." Thoroughly enjoyable from cover to cover. Now I simply must get "Shopaholic Ties the Knot." Can't wait to see what happens to Becky next!
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Summary: Great pleasure reading!
Review: I took this book to the beach and was totally enthralled with it for two days. I couldn't put it down and couldn't wait to get back to it when I was forced to take a break. It is about a television financial analyst that is a shopaholic and can't stop shopping. She spends and spends and avoids paying her bills. This gets her in hot water. She goes to NYC for a vacation with her boyfriend and spends her money there, too. Her life "blows up" when she is exposed for her habit. It is a great light read, that makes you want to cheer for the characters. I think it was a great and "proper" ending for the character. It wasn't too long or too short. It was the proper length. I can't really see any downsides to this book.
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Summary: Concept has grown a bit tiresome
Review: Okay, I have to admit that I enjoyed Sophie Kinsella's first novel in the Shopaholic series, but the idea has definitely grown tiresome in this novel. True; I did read the book in about two days. It is a very easy book to read, probably best to read poolside on vacation. Becky Bloomwood ends up in Manahattan and further exploits her spending problems in the Big Apple. However, as lighthearted as it is, it gets extremely repetitive. Just about every situation and adventure that Becky Bloomwood gets in is completely predictable. It's almost as if the author doesn't understand that the readers have an ounce of intelligence in them. Overall, this was a cute book, and totally easy to read. Just don't expect to be more than just slightly amused.
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Summary: Shopaholic took Manhattan!!
Review: Kinsella developes the character of Becky Bloomwood brilliantly in "Shopaholic Takes Manhattan." Becky is a more hip and and chic "Bridgette Jones." I mean, she is at least , but she know what she is doing...sort of. Becky faces her first delimma as she is packing her suitcase:
"I've already packed a denim jacket, a leather jacket, but you just can't count on September weather, can you? I mean, at this moment, it's hot and sunny, but it might start snowing tomorrow and what happens if Luke and I go for a really rustic walk? Besides which, I've got this gorgeous Patagonia vest for ages, and I've only worn it once."
Her concerns are at first, things like, "The whole point about a T-shirt is you choose them in the morning according to your mood, like crystals, or aromatherapy oils. Imagine if I woke up one Day in the mood for my "Elvis is Groovy" T-shirt and I didn't have it with me?" In her own way, she has a point. Some people - we don't like to admit who we may be - use clothes as we would use aromatherapy. In this day and age, what we wear often affects our moods and how we feel about ourselves.
Becky goes to New York City with Luke Brandon of Brandon Communications - and somehow she thinks that foreign money is not "real" money. As Luke is having difficulties with his business, Becky is having trouble with her bank accounts. London may very well be on a separate continent, but for Becky, the mistakes that she contnues to make in London as well as Manhattan catch up with her.
While she is in Manhattan, back to London, and so on, Becky Bloomwood really learns that her habit of shopping catches up with her. Or rather - she cannot keep up with her habit - or its' cost. And she is part of a morning talk show where she gives advice about finance (!)?! Becky finds she can use what she likes best to earn her success in life.
The reader will love, laugh at, get annoyed with....and eventually respect Becky Bloomwood in this novel. "Come to think of it, maybe I don't need three pairs of boots. Or a fur sole." I guess you could say that Becky learns that this time, she is going to have to wear sneakers - comforable ones, because she must travel down many roads. And I think she gains things (without using her VISA or Master Card) that remain a part of who she is, who she becomes - And well, how mad can you get at someone who's "Achilles Heel" is one of a pair of a Prada slingback stilletos!
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Summary: So Funny, Better than the Original
Review: I loved the original book of this series "Confessions of a Shopaholic." However, "Shopaholic Takes Manhattan" is even funnier-and it has more of a plot, more character development, and a more serious resolution.
Becky Bloomwood is the heroine of the "Shopaholic" series. By day, she is a TV financial journalist who delivers serious and sober advice on pension funds and the bond market. By night (and by weekend, by lunch hour etc.) she is a confirmed shopaholic who just can't stop herself from purchsing "just one more thing."
In this book, she and her rich, successful boyfriend spend a few weeks in New York as they decide whether or not to live there. While Luke (her boyfriend) spends his days in meetings, Becky "takes in the sights" (e.g., saks, Barneys,soho stores, etc.) and learns about the native customs (e.g.,sample sales, personal shoppers). She also is trying to establish her television career in New York and her descriptions of her meetings are very funny and actually spot on.
Of course, her endless spesnding eventually causes her endless headaches and a day of reckoning with Luke...and you will laugh very hard on your way to and throughout the climax of the book.
Kinsella has a tremendous gift in the way she manages to keep most of the book in the present tense-you feel as if you are with Becky in Barneys (or Prada or Saks) as she wrestles with her conscience on that one last purchase.
Highly recommended for fans of chick lit.
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Summary: A fun book.
Review: Becky Bloomwood knows she is on top of the world, and it just can't get any better. Now she is on UK television, giving financial advice. But her boyfriend, Luke Brandon, wants to move to the Big Apple to start a branch of his company there. Becky can't wait to go, and soon they are on the next plane to NYC. New opportunities open up, just as their romance fires up too. Read to find out what happens in this next installment by Sophie Kinsella. You won't be able to put it down.
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