bookshelf

Green With Envy by Shira Boss

Why Keeping Up with the Joneses Is Keeping Us in Debt
A Whole New Way to Look at Financial (Un)Happiness
205 pgs (c) 2006, Warner Business Books
Borrowed from Broward County Library 332.024BO Read: 01/05/08

A more apt subtitle would be "an envious writer in need of a book deal exposes financial shortcomings of her friends and neighbors." Schadenfreude is typical behavior and not a "whole new way to look at financial (un)happiness.”

Automatic Wealth by Michael Masterson

The Six Steps to Financial Independence
271 pgs (c) 2005, Michael Masterson, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pub.
Purchased at neighborhood yard sale. Read 02/17/08 

The six steps are: recognizing reality, plan to become wealthy, develop wealthy habits, radically increase your personal income, get richer while you sleep, and retire early. Early to rise makes is one of the most important habits according to Mr. Masterson.