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Available
Series
Collection
Publication
Dell (2004), Edition: 3rd, 400 pages
Description
Fiction. Literature. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:â??Kinsellaâ??s Bloomwood is plucky and funny. . . . You wonâ??t have to shop around to find a more winning protagonist.â?ťâ??People With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky Bloomwoodâ??s biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. That is, until Luke announces heâ??s moving to New York for businessâ??and he asks Becky to go with him! Before you can say â??Prada sample sale,â?ť Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury department stores. Surely itâ??s only a matter of time until Becky becomes an American celebrity. She and Luke will be the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Beckyâ??s bills an ocean away in London. But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line. Becky may have taken Manhattanâ??but will she have to return it? BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sophie Kinsellaâ??s Shopaholic to the Stars. Praise for Sophie Kinsella and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan â??A laugh-a-minute read.â?ťâ??Glamour (U.K.) â??Faster than a swiping Visa, more powerful than a two-for-one coupon, able to buy complete wardrobes in a single sprint through the mallâ??itâ??s Shopaholic!â?ťâ??The Washington Post â??Kinsella has a… (more)
User reviews
LibraryThing member Shopoholic
This was just as good as the first book -- but do read the other book first.
LibraryThing member Deesirings
Gah -- it is so difficult to have any sympathy for this heroine, who just repeatedly makes the same poor choices. And the ending is so far-fetched -- SPOILER ALERT!! -
I mean, who really recoups all the money they stupidly spent on things they didn't need by auctioning off their goods? What about
Must be nice to be able to get out of debt so easily!
I mean, who really recoups all the money they stupidly spent on things they didn't need by auctioning off their goods? What about
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all the money she spent on non-items (like cab fare and meals)? And in what universe can you get back as much as, if not more, than you paid, selling off designer clothing and accessories?Must be nice to be able to get out of debt so easily!
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LibraryThing member xicanti
Becky is an absolutely maddening character. I wanted to reach into the book and scream at her to just tell the truth already! And yet... I still got a big kick out of the story. It's annoying, yes, but it's also quick and entertaining and just generally a fun read. I don't think it'll survive a
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third reading, but twice was great. Show Less
LibraryThing member eickmeha
Becky Bloomwood has such a kind heart but is a little out of touch with her financial reality, bless her heart. She's so funny though and I have to admit, I tried to memorize the name of the website for the sample sales. I kind of felt that Luke was a cow to her though. He didn't tell her he was
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moving to New York until two weeks before he left and after she had such a bad day, he just ignored her. Show Less
LibraryThing member LilyEvans
I already had all the books with me, so why not? So, Luke, ever-the-smart one, decides to take Becky with him to New York while he closes a major deal. Typically, she fucks everything up and then somehow saves the day at the end when she saves Luke’s MEGA-IMPORTANT deal. Pretty boring, too much
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LibraryThing member kellyoliva
Another great, easy read featuring one of my favorite flakey characters of all time. I love this series.
LibraryThing member ThatBelle
It's brilliant, in this one she goes abroad and finds herself in more hilarious shop-related adventure.
LibraryThing member MsNikki
Again fun light. But Becky's foolishness seems pathological, not funny. It reaches a point where you think, "Nah, she not serious!"
Yet the story pushes on and she gets an out...but I could read the series just to say I have. But if I don't it won't matter much.
Yet the story pushes on and she gets an out...but I could read the series just to say I have. But if I don't it won't matter much.
LibraryThing member Brianna_H
Kinsella's most beloved character, Becky Bloomwood is back with all of her neuroses and eccentricities! Only this time, Becky gets to exhibit her penchant for the melodramtic in the Big Apple instead of London. Becky is charming and entertaining and her foibles and misteps are endearing as ever.
LibraryThing member mochap
I am embarrassed that I read this second in the series--I don't like the main character, I'm not a shopping maven, I don't know why I did it! but, for some reason I read it to the end.
It makes for a quick read on the commute to work...
It makes for a quick read on the commute to work...
LibraryThing member kikianika
I said I didn't like the Shopaholic series, didn't I? I hated flakey Becky with her compulsive shopping disorder. I still do, in fact. Yet I still reads this book in only a little over a day. It's an extremely fast read. I love Sophie's pace even while I hate, hate, hate her character. I read this
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book mainly because I'm interested how "travel" experiences are handled in chick lit. This book doesn't address travel as I have it in mind, but it still has some interesting issues in it. I loved the last 1/5th of the book. I still don't like (or get) Becky, but I'd recommend this to chick lit lovers and girly girls (and the shopping happy and credit card junkies...) Show Less
LibraryThing member skinglist
Decent chick lit. Periodically I wanted to throttle Becky for her lack of sense, common or otherwise, but I think that was the point. Ending redeemed it and herself.
LibraryThing member kikilon
I said I didn't like the Shopaholic series, didn't I? I hated flakey Becky with her compulsive shopping disorder. I still do, in fact. Yet I still reads this book in only a little over a day. It's an extremely fast read. I love Sophie's pace even while I hate, hate, hate her character. I read this
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book mainly because I'm interested how "travel" experiences are handled in chick lit. This book doesn't address travel as I have it in mind, but it still has some interesting issues in it. I loved the last 1/5th of the book. I still don't like (or get) Becky, but I'd recommend this to chick lit lovers and girly girls (and the shopping happy and credit card junkies...) Show Less
LibraryThing member tjsjohanna
This sequel was more enjoyable than the first, although I spent the first half of the novel thinking - "come on - isn't this the same story as "Confessions of a Shopaholic"? But I liked the way that Becky takes charge of her life in healthy ways at the end of the novel - and I liked that she
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finally finds something at which she is genuinely good. It makes her seem smarter and not so obsessed with her appearance. Show Less
LibraryThing member jlouise77
I'm glad the character seems to be gaining some depth as a person. She was very superficial and materialist (she is only 26!) and in this book she seems to be learning and growing in a way that makes me happy for her.
LibraryThing member blehblah
Funny and likable, Becky Bloomwood is my favorite character in (adult) chick lit. The first one was surprisingly good, as I wasn’t expecting much. The second one I may have liked slightly more just because I think living in Manhattan would be a dream come true, and her descriptions of life there
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seems fabulous, especially sample sales. The third one, the conflict isn’t about shopping anymore, but it is a conflict that’s more realistic and makes Becky into more of a complex character than a one-note one. The fourth was interesting, though a little different, and the climax is a little contrived. It took me awhile to like her sister. The conflicts with Luke and Suze are realistic and make me like Becky more. The last one, it’s funny how Becky has such magical intuition; it felt like the focus was too narrow, but maybe that’s just because I don’t find pregnancy that interesting. Overall, in a way the series is like Veronica Mars: it technically has gotten slightly worse, but it’s still so good that it’s one of the best things out there. Show Less
LibraryThing member iynn512
i finish half this book around 1 week or so and another half around 1 night. and yeah, sometimes i’m just a bit pissed about how useless Rebecca are. I mean, how dumb. But hey, sometimes that’s how, and what human do. But at times, she manage to fix back her problem, and that’s the
So, this book tells further story about Rebecca, her life and her addiction. Read if you’re interested.
I give 8.5 out of 10. Just because how charming Luke are. (Should i really give points? And sometimes i don’t even know what my points base for. do of my likeness, or quality of the book itself?)
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wonderfulness of this book. (I mean, kinda think of it, that’s what stories do, don’t they? Messed up their own self and fix it.)So, this book tells further story about Rebecca, her life and her addiction. Read if you’re interested.
I give 8.5 out of 10. Just because how charming Luke are. (Should i really give points? And sometimes i don’t even know what my points base for. do of my likeness, or quality of the book itself?)
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LibraryThing member readingrat
The shopaholic books are always a fun bit of fluff. Once you know Becky Bloomwood, it's fairly easy to guess exactly how her best-laid plans are going to fall apart, but that doesn't make the trip there any less entertaining.
LibraryThing member EbonyHaywood
After reading this, I totally want to go back and visit New York.
LibraryThing member labelleaurore
Surprisingly, this one is my least favorite. I have found this reading to be a bit long in the 'what is happening next', please move on.... It was not as funny as all her other ones. But still, very well done.
LibraryThing member Zhina
After Confessions of a Shopaholic, I was hoping, in a very Becky like manner, the things I didn't like about it would magically resolve themselves in the sequel.
Becky is the stereotypical dumb girl everyone in her life, including her boyfriend, puts up with 'cause she's cute. Cute in a
Every other woman in the book also either lacks morals, a heart, or is moronic like Bex. Luke's mom's a bitch, Suze is a spoiled rich brat who sits around doing yoga all day and the only person buying her handmade frames is Becky. And what about this inconspicuous roommate's disregard of Western sexual etiquette? And Becky's mother? She lives to keep face with the neighbours.
As if the author's apparent hatred of her own gender were not quite enough to get the point across, the characters themselves are misogynous. Take a look at the way Becky views Alicia based on ... womanly intuition?? Granted, Alicia -wait for it- turns out to be a conniving bitch, but Becky couldn't know that.
Who investigates for the daily world article? well, the tax GIRL!!
Couple that with the spews of rich, successful, and PATRONIZING men filling the pages of Shopaholic takes manhattan: there isn't a single struggling male in the book if one disregards Luke's momentary breakdown which he recovers from stronger than before.
And who's Becky Bloomwood after 750 paperback pages of being Becky Bloomwood? Well... she's still Becky, the dumb, irresponsible, immature girl-in-a-woman-body who can't manage herself.
For a moment or two approaching the end of the book I thought I'd finish satisfied. Leave it to Kinsella to take everything back in the last chapter or so.
It's very hard to believe that Sophie Kinsella may have used the likable but trashy Becky as a tool for social commentary. I don't believe it. And this second book is hardly a reflection of society. So why write this very catchy novel that deep down wounds the confidence women have worked for?
So all I'm left with is anger. And that's for picking up Shopaholic ties the knot when I bought this. I won't read any more of the mechanical raising of Becky's hopes and their shattering when she fails once more. More importantly, I won't stand my own.
Becky is the stereotypical dumb girl everyone in her life, including her boyfriend, puts up with 'cause she's cute. Cute in a
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pity-you-cause-you're-stupid kind of way. At the sight of Luke, who ended their relationhip over a little bad publicity she freezes "like a bunny". He is the prey and she is the frozen bunny, he is the man and she is the woman. Any bells ringing?Every other woman in the book also either lacks morals, a heart, or is moronic like Bex. Luke's mom's a bitch, Suze is a spoiled rich brat who sits around doing yoga all day and the only person buying her handmade frames is Becky. And what about this inconspicuous roommate's disregard of Western sexual etiquette? And Becky's mother? She lives to keep face with the neighbours.
As if the author's apparent hatred of her own gender were not quite enough to get the point across, the characters themselves are misogynous. Take a look at the way Becky views Alicia based on ... womanly intuition?? Granted, Alicia -wait for it- turns out to be a conniving bitch, but Becky couldn't know that.
Who investigates for the daily world article? well, the tax GIRL!!
Couple that with the spews of rich, successful, and PATRONIZING men filling the pages of Shopaholic takes manhattan: there isn't a single struggling male in the book if one disregards Luke's momentary breakdown which he recovers from stronger than before.
And who's Becky Bloomwood after 750 paperback pages of being Becky Bloomwood? Well... she's still Becky, the dumb, irresponsible, immature girl-in-a-woman-body who can't manage herself.
For a moment or two approaching the end of the book I thought I'd finish satisfied. Leave it to Kinsella to take everything back in the last chapter or so.
It's very hard to believe that Sophie Kinsella may have used the likable but trashy Becky as a tool for social commentary. I don't believe it. And this second book is hardly a reflection of society. So why write this very catchy novel that deep down wounds the confidence women have worked for?
So all I'm left with is anger. And that's for picking up Shopaholic ties the knot when I bought this. I won't read any more of the mechanical raising of Becky's hopes and their shattering when she fails once more. More importantly, I won't stand my own.
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LibraryThing member pussreboots
Originally published as Shopaholic Abroad, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella is the sequel to Confessions of a Shopaholic. Rebecca Bloomwood, now dating financial mogul, Luke Brandon, feels like she finally has her life under control. Her debts are paid, she has a great career on
Manhattan isn't London. Although Luke has ties (his mother), Rebecca's in for a bit of culture shock. Free time and the chance of a new career in New York, brings out the worst of her impulses. A complete in ability (or at least unwillingness) to convert pounds to dollars further exacerbates the situation.
At home in London, thinks aren't all golden either. Rebecca learns first hand about the ephemeral nature of public reputation. So much merit is placed on exaggerated moral behavior — usually with more of the onus placed on women. Rebecca's exuberance for the finest things available in Manhattan is used in an attempt to bring down Luke Brandon.
I'll be up front here, I don't like Luke. Even with the added melodrama of his cold mother, I'm not sold on him as the right one for Rebecca. I was really hoping that Luke would crash and burn. Oh well.
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television, and she has a boyfriend most everyone is envious of. But all that changes when he invites her on a business trip to Manhattan.Manhattan isn't London. Although Luke has ties (his mother), Rebecca's in for a bit of culture shock. Free time and the chance of a new career in New York, brings out the worst of her impulses. A complete in ability (or at least unwillingness) to convert pounds to dollars further exacerbates the situation.
At home in London, thinks aren't all golden either. Rebecca learns first hand about the ephemeral nature of public reputation. So much merit is placed on exaggerated moral behavior — usually with more of the onus placed on women. Rebecca's exuberance for the finest things available in Manhattan is used in an attempt to bring down Luke Brandon.
I'll be up front here, I don't like Luke. Even with the added melodrama of his cold mother, I'm not sold on him as the right one for Rebecca. I was really hoping that Luke would crash and burn. Oh well.
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LibraryThing member booksandscones
I first read Confessions of a Shopaholic and this book, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, about 11 or 12 years ago. I recently re-read Confessions and picked up this book in the library to see how I liked it now.
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan is actually a bit better than the first book, as Becky takes some
I agree with pussreboots's review - I don't like Luke Brandon as a character either, and don't think he & Becky are at all compatible, but that's the direction the author chose to go. Glad to see someone feels the way I do; everyone mostly seems to adore Luke & Becky :o)
I was mildly interested in this book in the two days I was reading it, but I think my Shopaholic re-reading experiment is at an end. Too many of these, I just couldn't take.
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan is actually a bit better than the first book, as Becky takes some
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initiative to resolve her newly acquired debt. In Confessions, she's handed a TV job which solves all her problems, but how often does that happen to women facing bankruptcy?I agree with pussreboots's review - I don't like Luke Brandon as a character either, and don't think he & Becky are at all compatible, but that's the direction the author chose to go. Glad to see someone feels the way I do; everyone mostly seems to adore Luke & Becky :o)
I was mildly interested in this book in the two days I was reading it, but I think my Shopaholic re-reading experiment is at an end. Too many of these, I just couldn't take.
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LibraryThing member yonitdm
So painful to read I actually closed it and stopped. The main character has reached new lows of being a trainwreck. I hate seeing/reading when people embarrass themselves and there were so many in just the first quarter of the book that I cannot go on!
LibraryThing member pandareads
If it weren't for the time change last night (blast you "Spring Ahead!") and the fact that I had to get up early today for a work meeting, I would have stayed up late to finish this book. I am in love with the Shopaholic series. It reads as though a real person were telling you the story, not just
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some author written narrative; I think that's so refreshing! In this second book in the Shopaholic series Becky follows here boyfriend Luke to New York City where he spends his time wheeling and dealing some business deals. Meanwhile, Becky's world soon comes crashing down around her when a defamatory article is published about her. She spends the rest of the novel wallowing a little bit and trying to get her life back together without Luke.I cannot rave enough about how awesome of a writer Sophie Kinsella is. Like I mentioned before, I love her writing style, as well as her rich characters which such distinct personalities and clever plot lines. I can't wait to read the next books in this series. And if you like chick-lit and you've never read a Shopaholic novel, you've got some issues. Show Less
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Awards
Audie Award (Finalist — Humor — 2004)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2001-09-03
Physical description
400 p.; 3.94 x 1.13 inches
ISBN
0440241812 / 9780440241812