中英文一起寫。但是請不要中英對照。因為我這次是邊看邊寫出心得。中文有中文的邏輯，英文有英文的想法。兩文完全不搭尬。
At the beginning, I would rather to buy another book, “Can you keep a secret?” than this one “Confessions of a shopaholic”. As a result, I finally decided to book this one about a woman who works as a journalist in a magazine and loves to buy the season’s must- haves. Ironically, she writes articles about finance, but she doesn’t have any sense about store her money and invest it to grow into a huge amount. Without any financial sense, she still works in that firm for more than three years.
When I got this book, I read it at once. The beginning is really interesting and ironic. It describes every woman’s nightmare with a credit card very vividly. How many items they bought every month to decorate themselves so that they usually overdraw their account and then max out their credits. It illustrates women read Financial Times and they bring it under their arms and respect to gain others’ seriously treats because they really knew what happen in the financial trends. Such as which company merger others or which stupid government provide huge loan to rescue their bleak financial systems…..etc. Rebecca did those things but she did not read thoroughly. She only skims the magazine and then expect others will pay attention on her clothing or accessories. I wonder how she could survive in the competitive financial world without being sacked.
I have to be honest I don’t really like the woman in this book. It is because I hate stupid women especially those who don’t know how to control themselves. Unfortunately, the woman in the book is really good at being a stupid. Being with them always makes me feel tired and bored. The more I read, the more frustrating I gained from this book. I just can’t understand why the stupid woman always put herself in such embarrassing moment and had to flee away those scenes. The book is really a textbook to warn women, especially those who love to find excuse to rationalize their shopping behaviors. I really understand because I DID it before until I found myself could not save any more penny from my salary. As the result, I ask my finance advisor to help me to find a way to save some money.
To be honest, I don’t really recommend this book because it’s my favorite one. But if you want to see such amazing and stupid woman in this book, have a look via books.com.tw or amazon.com also provide some previews and comments on its website.
以下是漢語的想法：
很有趣，很諷刺的一本小說。作者果然是有混過的金融圈，同時也非常懂女性，尤其是那些對於fashion有著狂熱的購物狂。每閱讀一章，我總是有股說不出的諷刺感，因為這真的是很像我對於慾望城市的想法。一個人到底要賺多少錢才能供的起自己購買Vivian Westwood, 或者是Hermes的柏金包？
作者是透過Rebecca寫出一個在財經雜誌工作的記者身份寫出一個不會控制自己購買力，甚至還妄想透過一紙lottery來贏得one point three的百萬英鎊，邊看邊笑，因為這真的很符合一般社會大眾啊！如果我贏得…，我就會….等。
Rebecca發現自己陷入debt的情況是，寄望透過一本由DAVID E Barton所寫 “controlling your cash” 寄望自己可以擺脫窘境。一切一切都以David所說為準則，但事實上，牛牽到北京還是一頭牛啊！死性不改。這一切一切都在於『環境太多誘惑』，但是如果一個人沒有克制力，又要如何寄望一個David E Barton來拯救一個沒有sense的購物狂？
有時候閱讀這本書，還真的有很大的耐心, 看這本書還真的邊看邊搖頭，為什麼？
因為，因為，這個女主角很笨，笨到常讓自己陷入無地自容的狀態。有句成語很適合她『打腫臉充胖子』，呵呵！
沒能力，卻老是希望在自己的包包是個超級名牌包，或者是夾各類金融的雜誌，期望他人的尊重與對待。結果，當真正的行家開始詢問相關問題，只想逃避，因為她真的是不懂。文中還出現她出糗落跑的情況。
喜歡購買名牌，結果發現錢不夠，陷入窘境，好心人特意幫了一把，因為她撒謊說要送病人，事情後來『曝光』，只好繼續說謊下去。
要過著zen-like的生活，提醒自己要節約，結果，老是事與願違！
想當各table hop，結果，讓自己陷入丟臉情境，因為人家不太甩她。
種種讓人無法理解的stupid woman所產生的一個生活在倫敦的女性，跟上一本的Melissa有如天壤之別。
其實日常生活中還挺常看到這種stupid women存在。閱讀時，老讓我想到好幾年前在台北西門町搭捷運時，碰到兩個fashion極了的女孩，很漂亮，很時尚，但是對話內容讓人噴飯：
A女：穿的美美的，皮夾子也鼓鼓的。
B女：是啊！可是一看到皮夾子裡頭，卻是空空的。
還挺慶幸自己，對於名牌慾望很低，第一：我沒那麼多錢，得承認。第二：穿起來也沒有super model的氣質。第三：我不想養卡債。不過，買不起名牌，另一種辦法就是看看就好了，反正我還是叫得出名號。我不想當月光族，更不想當各卡債族。
這本書還真有『警惕』的效果。
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