Boxing Day Books
Some people enjoy Boxing Day shopping but if you’re like me, the last place you want to be today is the mall. So, while everyone else is waiting in the check out line, I’m going to be far away from the chaos peacefully reading one of these books about shopping instead.
Fiction:
The Hole We’re In by Gabrielle Zevin
A family's consumerism leads to disaster in this novel of debt and dysfunction.
Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
The sixth installment of the series finds heroine Becky Bloomwood struggling with the international financial crisis, an out-of-control toddler and the challenge of throwing a fabulous party on a budget.
The Penny Pinchers Club by Sarah Strohmeyer
A compulsive shopper joins a group to get help with her finances but finds support for the rest of her life as well.
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Non-Fiction
The Call of the Mall: a Walking Tour Through the Crossroads of Our Shopping Culture by Paco Underhill
The author of Why We Buy investigates the use and meaning of the shopping mall.
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine
The author and her family attempt to spend a year without purchasing any non-essential products.
Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict by Avis Cardella
The author analyses the compulsive shopping that damaged her both financially and psychologically.
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