Off The Shelf discussion

It's time to take a look at our nonfiction selection for February! Leave your thoughts/comments here...

I've started Nickel and Dimed, but having trouble getting into this book. I like the idea and even voted for it, but there it is. LOL.

Anybody else have thoughts about it? :)

Well, I read most of it. Frankly, it was depressing. She wrote well and it was an interesting experiment, however the subject got me down. Especially when you realize that she wrote this in the mid 90's and here we are in the middle of a depression now and it's so much worse. I've always felt that I wasn't at poverty level, but I can see that I'm one short disaster away!

I actually didn't read the whole book, as I couldn't take the subject matter any more. LOL, sorry. The reviews for this book made it sound better than it actually was. Maybe if I was more affluent, it would have been a fun read.

On to the next book! I hope some of you are going to participate!

I read this book and it left me depressed. I came within the skin of my teeth from having this very existence. Very well written and offers thoughts to working for the minimum wage and the fight for the existence these people must wage for survival.