Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
- Leonard Cohen
Confessions of a Shopaholic - A Review
August 31, 2007
A week ago, my friend Mitz e-mailed me a series of e-books by Sophie Kinsella with a note that the novel was so hilarious she had "to go out of the room to keep myself from loughing out loud". Well Mitz, I got to read the very first of them, "Confessions of A Shopaholic" and what can I say?? Really, Becky Bloomwood , (the series' central character), "how hilariously imaginative can you get, in personifying the shopping habit gone bad. Terribly bad.”
Indeed, how do you really solve a problem like Becky Bloomwood? Fresh from college, 25-year old Becky just landed a job as a financial journalist for Successful Savings. In this job, she regularly sits down on press conferences where she doodles on her notebook rather than pay attention or ask questions. She’s every inch what a shallow worker is, cares more for how she looks, what brand of clothing she wears than what quality of work she turns up. Irresponsible? Bordering to, but as she still shows up with her articles, no matter how unthought of they are, she hardly is, yet. (more…)
