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Confessions Of A Shopaholic (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Library Binding – 4 November 2003

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Rebecca Bloomwood, a financial journalist at Successful Savings, seeks solace from the boredom, pressures, and difficulties in life with her shopping, a solution that brings her ever closer to financial disaster, until she finally encounters a story that she actually cares about and produces an article that will change her own life and the lives of all those around her.

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Publisher : Turtleback Books; Turtleback Scho. edition (4 November 2003)
Language : English
Library Binding : 368 pages
ISBN-10 : 141766584X
ISBN-13 : 978-1417665846
Reading age : 14 - 18 years
Dimensions : 17.27 x 10.92 x 3.3 cm

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Jade Maree

Shopaholic

Reviewed in Australia on 16 January 2016

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I loved this book it was so funny, seemed to end a bit abruptly but I guess it will pick up in the next one. Completely different to the movie

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Sandy Bodycote

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 22 June 2015

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Love this whole series, can't wait for the next book!!

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Financially Blonde

Reviewed in Australia on 9 January 2021

I really have no idea how to rate this book. It’s kind of like a mash-up of Legally Blonde and that song “There’s a hole in my bucket”, except instead of Legally Blonde, you would have to call it Financially Blonde. It should have annoyed the tar out of me, but instead, I found it strangely compelling. Or at least, I assume I did, since I only really put the book down to go to sleep for the night, and then somehow ended up spending this morning in bed finishing it without ever actually deciding that’s what I was doing. But I also kept turning to my husband after involuntarily laughing at something to say, “I’m not really sure why I’m still reading this, because I cringe every time she digs her hole another level deeper.”

But it’s one of those books that has the distinction of being at once completely unrealistic and scarily spot on. I suppose that’s the point of satire, really, except that it felt as though the story lost track of any point it was trying to make along the way. Maybe that’s because the heroine pretty much lies her way through the entire book with very few lasting consequences. Perhaps part of the reason I enjoyed the reading experience was because I was anticipating a different ending? Considering there are several more books in the series, perhaps the vague expectations I had were unrealistic. But then I feel as though I should be more disappointed if that was the case.

Plot aside, Kinsella’s writing was quite entertaining. And masterful, really, when considered from certain aspects. It’s not easy to write such completely natural sounding first person narrative, particularly when it’s often hopelessly deluded stream of consciousness. Perhaps that was part of what made it so entertaining—the fact that the reader can see how hopelessly deluded Becky is even as she’s patting herself on the back for being so clever.

Anyway, I’m not sure I can recommend it as such. I’m not even sure I could go on to read the rest of the series. But I can see how it would both appeal and repel, so all that’s left is to work out which category you fall into.

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Mrs Helen S Leecy

Hilarious!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2020

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So I was trying to work out how long it’s been since I last read this book. I have it between 15-20 years at least, that makes me feel very old! After seeing that the author had brought a new book last year ’Christmas Shopaholic’ I just knew it was time to revisit all of the books.
As soon as I picked it up, I remembered why I loved Rebecca Bloomwood. She is just so hilarious. I love her inner monologue, that is 99% of the time going off on a tangent and is entirely opposite to what is going on in the real world. I was once again laughing out loud, gasping and falling in love with the characters. There was also a lot of eye-rolling as she does manage to get herself in some unimaginable scenarios and dilemmas.
I did get confused somewhat as I was reading it and getting towards the end as I remembered lots of things happening that didn’t appear to be in the book. However, I once watched the film, and those things happen in that. I was convinced it was the book through, but I was wrong.
I absolutely loved revising this world, and I can’t wait to get stuck into all the other books again.
These books are so unique, other authors have tried to capture something similar in their stories but come up short. Becky Bloomwood is one of a kind as is Sophie Kinsella as these are expertly written!

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Midgebear

Never Stop Shopping

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2019

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Despite the character being polar opposite to me - the only shopping I enjoy is for books - I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I love the film based on the book and although the plots diverge quite early on (no Girl In The Green Scarf here), for me this made the story all the more charming for this reader.

At some level we all know the horror of those brown envelopes dropping through the door. The heart stopping pause as you bend to pick them up. If you're unlucky you know the terror of the phone ringing, wondering if it is a collection agency trying to claw back money you don't have but you have spent. Whichever category you fall into there is something about Rebecca Bloomwood's life that speak to a modern existence. Conspicuous consumption, measuring your worth as a person against material goods, it rings all too shockingly true.

Told with a wit and humour that manages to breakthrough the relentlessness of Rebecca's precarious position. Ms Kinsella manages to draw fun out of Rebecca's situation and the romantic element, whilst entirely predictable, is light and enjoyable. The story is well balanced and has enough reality in it to make it relatable to most readers.

I thoroughly enjoyed this glimpse in to a world that I have no knowledge of. City living, is almost as odd to me as country living. Working as a journalist is something I have no clue on - although it sounds as much a drudge as any other job. All I could relate to was trying to balance a budget and failing.

Fun and wittily told, I found myself rooting for Rebecca and wondering just how she was so blind to romance.

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Lii Haskins

Looking forward to the next!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2020

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Meet Rebecca Bloomwood.
She has a great flat? A fabulous wardrobe full of seasons must-haves, and a job telling other people how to manage their money. She seems her Elsinore time... shopping.
Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. She knows she should stop, by she can’t. She tried cutting back, she tried making more money. But neither seems to work. The letter from the bank are getting harder to ignore.
Can Becky ever escape this dreamworld, find a true love and regain the use of her credit card?
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Where it all began... the first book in the shopaholic series.
So I’m now finally on Sophie’s Shopaholic series and I was very excited to begin with, but once I started reading the book, I got quite bored. The first half of the novel, I found to be extremely boring... it seem to go on forever too. I almost gave up reading it. But then to my surprise the other half of the book was really good! I really enjoyed it! It doesn’t exactly end on a cliffhanger, like I was expecting, because it’s part of a series, but it does make me want to buys more just so I can follow Rebecca in her journey!

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Not for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2013

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I only bought this book because I love the other Sophie Kinsella books. I have delayed buying this despite its popularity but then enjoyed the others so much I decided to buy it. The reason I delayed buying it was because I'm not really one of those girls who enjoys shopping that much. I really wish that I had followed my instinct.

I can imagine many people would love this book as it has its funny, heartfelt and entertaining moments just like other Sophie Kinsella books. However I am giving this book 2 stars because firstly I found the main character shallow, naive, vapid, annoying and desperate. If I knew her in real life she would be someone that I couldn't hold a 5 minute conversation with before wanting to scream 'just get over yourself' and try to slap some sense into. Another reason is that, not being a great fan of shopping, I really couldn't identify with her obsessions and couldn't understand her misplaced priorities where she puts a scarf before more important things like her job. People will probably now think that I'm a bit of an idiot because the clue was in the title but I still think the character could have been more likeable. Why also does it seem that she gets herself into awkward situations due to her bad judgement then just expect everyone else to bail her out?

The other thing that annoyed me was, looking at the others in the series, the main character doesn't learn anything from her mistakes and carries on getting into serious debt despite the risk of losing her loved ones. The books seem to follow the same storyline but with different settings.

I'm sure many people will love this book because as I said, it does have its good points but it really wasn't for me and I won't be buying the others in the series.

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ED Farr

You've spent...how much!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2015

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Never read Sophie Kinsellas novels before, but am now on my third. Rebecca Bloomwood lives in a flat in fashionable Fulham, London, that is owned by her best friend Suze's wealthy parents. Becky is a financial journalist for the magazine Successful Savings, but is the first to admit that she doesnt like her job, and doesn't know anything about finance. The nearest she gets to personal finance is the thousands of pounds in debt as is evidenced by a run through of her Visa card bill. This novel is brilliant, it makes you laugh and smile not to mention hold your breath at some stages. The addition of the "letters from the bank" threatening action about debts and overdrafts (which go completely unhindered by Becky) breaks up the storyline and makes amusement even better.

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