“Confessions of a Shopaholic”
by Sophie Kinsella
Published: November 2003
ISBN: 0440241413

(Updated: November 25, 2004.)

It’s funny… although I am oh-so-very much in search of lighter, please-feel-good reading these days, this book by it’s title represents a topic that I can imagine to be hilarious but that at the same time makes me nervous to delve into.

Now I am certainly not a shopaholic in the what I consider to be "traditional" sense of the word… but… the hours and hours I spend pouring over beads and gems and tools and equipment are almost not countable. And, all of this "pouring" does indeed cause me to have quite a "relationship" with my credit card :o)

And books. Books are indeed another of those "things" that I find completely irresistible to the point of being a weakness. I actually have to prepare myself mentally and financially before going into a bookstore.

And, thinking of that, I guess my children and their wishes fall into this category too.

And, well, there are hardware stores. And art supply stores. I mean "Look at this! With this I could do/make/think…"

And on it goes.

Yes :o)

So… as I suspected, this book opens with a letter from a bank to a woman about to graduate from university offering a line of credit. And, so the adventure begins…

And although I did recognize some of the "reasoning" that can go on around "buying", I found this book what? Rather boring actually. It does pick up a bit at the end when it turns as would most fairy tales but for the most part I found the main character irritating rather than charmingly funny.

My rating then… 1 out of 5 hearts.