30 Books: September 2008

Book 17: Pay It Down! by Jean Chatzky

Summary:
Jean Chatzky lays out how to get out of debt by finding $10 a day. She goes into details on how to find that much money and what exactly to do with it in order to pay off your debts.

My Thoughts:
Interesting premise, but to me, if you can scrounge up ten bucks a day you're probably not in as much trouble as you might think. I'm a big reader of online blogs about debt reduction, but the problem is it's all common sense. Make more than you spend and pay off all your credit cards. Pretty simple, right? If you're motivated enough to get your spending under control and start getting out of debt, this book might have some tips for you. But honestly, you already know how to do it.

Links:
Amazon
Jean Chatzky at Wikipedia
Review at The Simple Dollar (this is one of those sites I mentioned above)

Book 27: Just After Sunset by Stephen King

Typical Stephen King short stories. One of them is the grossest thing he's ever written - "A Very Tight Place" - about a man trapped in a port-a-potty and left to die.

Book 29: 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

Really good. There are some creepy stories in here.

Book 28: Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson

Not my usual thing. It's an autobiography of sorts about the woman who took over the Ann Landers advice column. It talks about her life as a single mother and all the women who helped guide her through life from her hometown of Freeville. Definitely a girl book, but it was interesting and an easy read.

Book 24: Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson

Repairman Jack. I would recommend starting at the beginning. It's getting complicated and if you haven't been following these, you might be a little lost at this point. I'm tempted to try and find Nightworld, which is apparently the final book of the Adversary Cycle that wraps up Jack's story, but I'm going to wait and see if he updates it after he finishes these other Jack books.

Book 23: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

This was a very short Stephen King book. But it's good. Better than I remembered anyways.

Book 25: Nothing To Lose by Lee Child

More typical mystery/thriller Jack Reacher. All these books sort of are the same, but they're so dang good it doesn't matter.

Book 22: The Fallon Pride by Robert Jordan

A historical fiction book written under the psuedonym of Reagan O'Neal. It's the story of the Fallon family and their troubles set around the historical events of the late 1700's and early 1800's. It was decent, but this was the second of a trilogy, and I won't be going out of my way to find the other two.