Friday, March 12, 2010

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.

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Shotgun Shopping – How to Materialize Anything You want Through the Metaphor of Shopping by Sheevaun Moran

December 29, 2009 by Clare Swindlehurst  
Filed under 2009, 3 stars

It’s a quick read – I polished it off in less than an hour – and it does contain some useful tips and insights. It all got a little bit too new age for me though in the penultimate chapters!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin

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!

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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.

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Book Review | Just In Case by Meg Rosoff

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…?

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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

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Book Review | Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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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