America, Welcome to the Poorhouse by Jane White
January 13, 2010 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 2010, 3 stars
If you prefer not to think about your personal finances then you should probably read America, Welcome to the Poorhouse. White paints a pretty bleak, but eye-opening picture about the state of America’s personal finances. She talks about how you can turn your 401(k) into a pension so that you can have the retirement lifestyle you hope for. She also shows you how to get out of credit card debt.
[ Read this article → ]Priceless: The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel by Lloyd Constantine
November 2, 2009 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 2009, 3 stars
If you’re in the legal field and want an inside view into the biggest antitrust case in American history then you should definitely read this book, if you’re not then I’d give it a miss.
[ Read this article → ]Imagine: A Vagabond Story by Grant Lingel
September 26, 2009 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 2009, 3 stars, Memoir
When Grant Lingel discovers in his final year of college that he doesn’t quite have enough credits to complete his course he decides to throw caution to the wind, and instead of completing the missing credits and destining himself to a desk job like the rest oh his friends he packs a backpack and heads off to Mexico.
[ Read this article → ]Checkout: A Life on the Tills by Anna Sam
September 13, 2009 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 2009, 3 stars, Reviews
Anna Sam has pulled together a series of anecdotes in a sort of ‘day in the life’ of a supermarket checkout girl. Having worked in a retail store during my college years and knowing exactly what customers are like I was really looking forward to reading this book. I was expecting it to be “fall on the floor with laughter” funny – and was really disappointed.
[ Read this article → ]Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin
July 12, 2009 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 2009, 3 stars, Young Adult
Fade to Blue is a teenage comic-scifi-thriller novel, filled with humour and enough twists and turns to keep you guessing that by the end of it all you’re not really too sure what actually happened!
[ Read this article → ]Songs of a Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult | Online Book Review
February 24, 2009 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 2009, 3 stars, Reviews
If you are a die-hard Picoult fan and you’ve not yet read this feel free to give it a go, if you’ve never read Picoult before then give this one a miss or it will put you off reading her later – and much better – novels.
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
December 31, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 3 stars, 50 book challenge, Young Adult
The novel starts out in the bedroom of David Case; a teenage boy with a baby brother. A baby brother who decides that he wants to be a bird and stands a little too close to the window ledge. In that moment David loses his childhood innocence – his lack of fear – and starts to think what if…?
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | Blog Blazers by Stephane Grenier
December 30, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 3 stars, 50 book challenge
Blog Blazers by Stephane Grenier is a series of interviews of top bloggers who reveal the secrets of their success
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
December 30, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 3 stars, 50 book challenge, Classics Challenge
This was another book that I picked up for the Classics Challenge, and I can’t actually believe I’ve reached the wise old age of 32 without reading it! I always thought Lord of the Flies was just a book about a group of young boys stuck on a desert island — but as is usually the case with esteemed classics it is so much more than that!
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