Lost & Found by Geneen Roth - an appropriate book title for Margie and I. It is like we have been lost. March and the beginning of April were certainly lost months for us both. We got sidetracked, moving, vacations, good things. We are fortunate in that we didn't lose what Geneen Roth did, she lost all her money to Bernie Madoff. All of it. Thirty years of earning. And if that doesn't scare the tuna salad out of you, nothing will.
Books about money make me nervous. I don't have a good relationship with money, it flies out of my hands like so many birds set free. This book was different. Ms. Roth spoke my money language, story telling instead of the usual "get out a budget sheet and see what you have to give up" (I hate those books).
Surprisingly, I consumed this book the way I shop: "I need more. Now." This book spoke to me loudly and I marked at least ten passages that I will keep close at hand for the next while:
At page 182 she writes, "Money is expensive - we pay for it with moments that will never come again - and then we toss those moments away as if they have nothing to do with us. As if there were no connection between the numbers in our bank accounts or retirement funds and the hours of our lives we spent training, struggling, commuting,, at our desks and away from our families." Oh how true, the time spent earning doesn't seem to have a real connection to the dollars that land (albeit fleetingly) into our bank accounts.
And my favourite? Page 70 "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
If you struggle with money or if you don't, if you just want an interesting read of how one woman coped with being robbed and losing it all and how she bounced back and what she found when she did, I highly recommend this book.
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xo
Kath
This is a paid review for BlogHer Book Club but the opinions expressed are my own."
