Book reviews

[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”500″ identifier=”1780743378″ locale=”UK” src=”http://www.boostmybudget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/5152BZ5po82L.jpg” tag=”boomybud-21″ width=”313″]This month’s book is [easyazon_link identifier=”1780743378″ locale=”UK” tag=”boomybud-21″]Happy Money[/easyazon_link] by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton.

So far I’ve read a lot of books on how to save money and manage money. This is the first book I’ve read on how to spend money.

[easyazon_link identifier=”1780743378″ locale=”UK” tag=”boomybud-21″]Happy Money[/easyazon_link] is all about how to spend your money to maximize happiness.

Makes sense, right? We spend money every day, whether it’s on essentials like housing or food, or treats for ourselves and others. Even with things we think of as essential, we usually do have some form of control over what we buy. So why …

[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”500″ identifier=”0143130404″ locale=”UK” src=”http://www.boostmybudget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/413s0Sf1nKL.jpg” tag=”boomybud-21″ width=”334″]This month’s book review is [easyazon_link identifier=”0143130404″ locale=”UK” tag=”boomybud-21″]Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together[/easyazon_link] by Erin Lowry.

Erin Lowry runs the fabulous Broke Millennial blog, where she helps people in their 20s and 30s get their financial lives together. I’ve followed her blog for a while, and was excited to get my hands on a copy of her first book!

The Broke Millennial book covers absolutely everything you wanted to know about money but didn’t know who to ask. It’s basically personal finance 101 for people who didn’t learn the basics in school or from our parents – …

As part of the Boost My Budget project I’m reading one personal finance book every month! See my previous reviews here. 

[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”475″ identifier=”0451205367″ locale=”UK” src=”http://www.boostmybudget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/51T663WZYCL.jpg” tag=”boomybud-21″ width=”279″]This month’s review is [easyazon_link identifier=”0451205367″ locale=”UK” tag=”boomybud-21″]The Richest Man in Babylon[/easyazon_link] by George S. Clason.

This book is regarded as an all-time classic of personal finance literature. It was first published in 1926 (!) and remains hugely popular today.

I had been meaning to read this one for a while and had high hopes for it!

The book is a series of short stories set in ancient Babylon – said to be the wealthiest city in the world. The stories …

As part of the Boost My Budget project I’m challenging myself to read one personal finance book every month! See my previous reviews here. 

[easyazon_image align=”left” height=”500″ identifier=”0340998059″ locale=”UK” src=”http://www.boostmybudget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/51iwWgiw4iL.jpg” tag=”boomybud-21″ width=”327″]This month’s review is [easyazon_link identifier=”0340998059″ locale=”UK” tag=”boomybud-21″]I Will Teach You to Be Rich[/easyazon_link] by Ramit Sethi.

I’ve wanted to read this book for ages. With a name like that, how could you not?

[easyazon_link identifier=”0340998059″ locale=”UK” tag=”boomybud-21″]I Will Teach You to Be Rich[/easyazon_link] is a crash course in money management for young people who aren’t really interested in personal finance.

It’s structured around a kind of six week course which covers all the personal finance basics. The …