pickThis book was a super easy, fast and fun read. Especially for a nonfiction book!
This was a very biased, honest look at cultures and a very good explanation of the global financial crises. I learned a lot in a very entertaining way.
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World | 
pickThis book was a super easy, fast and fun read. Especially for a nonfiction book!
This was a very biased, honest look at cultures and a very good explanation of the global financial crises. I learned a lot in a very entertaining way.
#payingitforward #librarydonations #timetoletgo I've decided I'm not going to read these books, and hubby has, sons 1 & 2 are pretty ambivalent so I'm setting them free💜 I mean to hold onto them just for photo challenges seemed cruel 😐
pickBook 2/150 for 2017. 3.5/5 ⭐️. A good, but somewhat dated, read about the 2008 financial crisis. Lewis is strongest early on in the chapters about European countries involved in the crisis (I'd give that section 4 stars), but the American section feels slightly tacked on, as if the publisher said "Americans won't buy this unless you relate it to our experiences, too!" Worth the couple of $ I spent, but too dated in 2017 to buy new at full price.
I'm an hour and ten minutes into this book & my thoughts so far are: 1) Im glad I chose it, I like the way Michael Lewis looks at things (BTW, if you ever get a chance to hear him speak or read at a book signing, do it. He's one of the best authors I've heard speak, along with Laurie Halse Anderson & Thomas Lynch) & 2) I wish I hadn't bought this on audio. I dislike the narrator's smug, self satisfied tone (Michael himself would have been better).
pickA slightly dated but still informative investigation of the global financial crisis from a sovereign viewpoint - what lead so many European countries to get so far into debt and how the national characteristics of these countries exacerbated these issues.
