A coherent and informative explanation of investing and saving, targeting young female readers with a casual voice and an...
A debut financial guide speaks to an audience of young women.
In this manual, Hung maintains a chatty and upbeat tone while providing accurate and easy-to-follow information about the basics of setting a budget, planning for retirement, and understanding investment options. The book follows the standard format of the genre, addressing ways to cut expenses and earn additional income before moving into a more detailed explanation of retirement, stocks, and bonds. Debut illustrator Lu’s engaging, cartoon-style images appear throughout the volume, and add visual interest and humor (like the drawing of “my face when I hear about a 22 year old investing in bonds”) as well as an effective depiction of financial concepts. Creative metaphors, like the comparison of investing routines to gym habits, provide effective methods of making memorable points about personal finance. Hung, a Canadian, also addresses some of the differences in terminology and tax law between America and Canada, making the book more useful for non-U.S. readers. Further information, including videos, is available on the work’s website (thesassyinvestor.ca), as readers are reminded by callouts through the text. The guide provides solid and actionable advice on saving and investing, on par with most other titles in the genre, and focuses on the options available to average readers, not financial savants. The breezy tone of the writing (“Unless there is a zombie apocalypse, the stock markets will not go to zero”) may not appeal to all readers, but the suggestion to “have a mani/pedi party at someone’s house” as a money-saving technique takes nothing away from the well-organized and thoughtful explanations of bond yields and P/E ratios. Although it is instructive, the manual contains relatively little text for its length; in addition to the graphics-heavy format, several pages are set aside for readers’ notes. For readers who find the tone and format useful, this guide is a solid introduction to the mechanics of personal finance.
A coherent and informative explanation of investing and saving, targeting young female readers with a casual voice and an attractive presentation.Pub Date: Jan. 29, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5255-0901-8
Page Count: 180
Publisher: FriesenPress
Review Posted Online: April 22, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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