Judith Levine

A journalist traces a year during which she and her partner struggled to stop consumer spending practices in spite of their American conditioning, an effort that had an impact on their careers, family relationships, and personal identities.

My Year Without Shopping

Not Buying It

Kourtney

If I could give this book negative stars and make her owe me my day back in reading this drivel, I would. This book is so bad I could only make it halfway through February before I gave up.

The book starts off with the author complaining about consumerism and how it is destroying the planet. So lets write a book about it hoping people will rush out and buy it therefore killing trees to read the absolute nonsense in the authors mind! Irony - thy name is this piece of crap book!

After winding my way through that garbage I came across her diary entries. Ok, she's complaining about socks. And her two homes...and their 3 cars. Am I supposed to feel sorry for them yet? They pay a lot for healthcare? Who doesn't? 

Throughout the diary entries she sticks in awkward moments of history, psychology and babble that has no business being in the book. What I took away was she was so bored she decided to write a history book but failed miserably because she got mad when her husband wanted DSL. Did that make sense? No? Well neither did this book. Skip it and find something better to read.

Not Buying It My Year Without Shopping

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