Book Review- Taming the Shopping Bug: My Year of Minimalist Shopping
Title: Taming the Shopping Bug: My Year of Minimalist Shopping
Author: Marti McGinnis
Date of Publishing: 11 February 2020
Publisher: Dogtrot Press
Number of pages: 281 pages
ISBN-10: 1713335611
ISBN-13: 9781713335610
Taming the Shopping Bug: My Year of Minimalist Shopping is a book of self-control, self-discovery and self-help by author Marti McGinnis.
You look at the front cover of the book and you are intrigued. You turn the book to look at what the back cover says and you just can’t stop yourself from begin reading it “right now!”.
Author Marti McGinnis uses her experiences, personal insights, psychology and beautiful illustrations to gift the readers a creative wonder. As she says in the foreword, she made a New Year resolution in 2019 to control her shopping impulses, although she was not a shopaholic, just a recreational shopper.
Her 365-day journey to honour her new year resolution gave birth to the book, Taming the Shopping Bug: My Year of Minimalist Shopping.
Over the year, the author not only kept a tab on her shopping whims but roped in some people for a case study. That’s what makes the insights on Taming the Shopping Bug: My Year of Minimalist Shopping authentic.
The author didn’t make a resolution to live in penury. She just decided to shop for essentials with an occasional splurge. Her idea was to count her blessings, make most of what she had and buy things only when there was a real need for it. As a recreational shopper myself, who shopped for years on amazon.com when the shopping portal, Amazon didn’t even have its Indian version- amazon.in, it is really easy to understand where the author, Marti McGinnis is coming from.
In the COVID-19 era, it is difficult to go out and shop. For that matter, it is now impossible to binge on shopping because, every penny, every paisa, every peso and every dime count. The present time makes the book, Taming the Shopping Bug: My Year of Minimalist Shopping extremely valuable. The beautiful cartoons and illustrations add another plus. The book doesn’t become a heavy read, yet its message is effective. Why not learn while getting entertained? This creative form of learning is not only for children. Every adult has the same right- to learn, reflect and imbibe changes yet have fun doing that!
For the interesting, multi-cultural beauty of self-mastery over the most squandering bug called ‘shopping’, we @WeLoveQualityBooks give Taming the Shopping Bug: My Year of Minimalist Shopping by author Marti McGinnis ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – five stars.
Taming the Shopping Bug: My Year of Minimalist Shopping by Marti McGinnis
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
