Shopaholic Abroad Pdf Summary
The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot is back! And this time Becky Bloomwood and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic….
With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky’s biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. And worse, figuring out how to pack light. But packing takes on a whole new meaning when Luke announces he’s moving to New York for business–and he asks Becky to go with him! Before you can say “Prada sample sale,” Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury boutiques.
Surely it’s only a matter of time until she becomes an American TV celebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Becky’s bills miles away in London. But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line! Shopaholic Takes Manhattan–but will she have to return it?
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Shopaholic Abroad Review
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5.0 out of 5 stars Charming Continuation to the Series
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2016
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I’d heard about the Shopaholic series for years before finally taking the plunge when I came across the first book on sale recently. As I thought might happen, I was completely captivated.
There are a lot of criticisms one could make of the Shopaholic series (I’m now on book 5 as I write this review of book 2), but I think that a lot of such criticism fails to understand the genre of “chick lit” (about which I, a newly fledged expert, am now going to expound 🙂 ). Yes, Becky is a bit–well, a lot–of a materialistic airhead and I wouldn’t *actually* want to be her friend or, God forbid, her significant other, but, that’s not really a good criterion for judging a work of fiction. I mean, I just read a piece of highly regarded “Celtic noir” about a former IRA hitman who goes on a killing spree, and I wouldn’t want to be HIS friend/significant other either. That’s not how fiction works! You read about people who make choices you might not make in real life, not about sensible people who carefully follow their budgets and savings plans and never, for example, snap and start shooting people because of the voices in their heads…
OK, deep breaths. Let’s just assume that a lot of the criticism of the Shopaholic series, which is what we’re interested in here, has a sexist/misogynist motivation, even if the criticisers are not consciously aware of this fact, and move on from there. Which means we’re going to rethink our critiquing paradigm a bit if we want to do a proper job here, and assume that something this successful is probably not just airhead-ery.
So what can we say about “Shopaholic Takes Manhattan”? Becky is invited by her boyfriend Luke to come with him to Manhattan, where he’s trying to expand his business. She immediately falls in love with the shopping, the TV offers that are coming her way, the shopping, the shopping, the shopping…until everything goes pear-shaped, of course, because she’s not only a dreamer with only a tenuous grasp on the harsher aspects of reality, she’s also still an addict and she can’t get her addiction under control.
The basic situation is familiar from the previous book (something that will continue in later books in the series as well), but Kinsella drops clues and builds the tension like a mystery writer. The narrative style is the unselfconscious-yet-ironic stream-of-consciousness that is typical for “chick lit,” and that seems to be so poorly understood by readers who are not fans of the genre. Yes, dear reader, we and the author are both supposed to recognize how ridiculous the situations are, and on a certain level, so does the character, but she still presents it as if it’s totally reasonable. Which is where the humor comes in. It turns out women DO have a sense of humor, it just appears in the form of laughing at yourself and seeing things through two lenses at once.
Anyway. I’m sure I’ll have lots more to say as I review the next books in the series, but in the meantime, if you’re looking for a hilarious and absorbing read, you couldn’t do better than this book and this series.
About Sophie Kinsella Author Of Shopaholic Abroad pdf book
Sophie Kinsella Author Of Shopaholic Abroad pdf book is a writer and former financial journalist. She is the number one bestselling author of Can You Keep a Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I’ve Got Your Number, Wedding Night, My Not So Perfect Life, Surprise Me, the hugely popular Shopaholic novels and the Young Adult novel Finding Audrey. She lives in the UK with her husband and family. She is also the author of the children’s series Mummy Fairy and Me / Fairy Mom and Me, and several bestselling novels under the name of Madeleine Wickham. Visit her website at www.sophiekinsella.co.uk.
Shopaholic Abroad pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Black Swan (January 1, 2001)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 329 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0552999407
- ISBN-13 : 978-0552999403
- Item Weight : 8.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.87 x 7.8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,815,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #74,903 in Contemporary Women Fiction
- #87,929 in Romantic Comedy (Books)
- #263,660 in Contemporary Romance (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,470 ratings
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