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A Year in High Heels: The Girl's Guide to Everything from Jane Austen to the A-list

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This intriguing style will walk you through unique trivia and dates as you progress through the Calendar. You will become a queen of trivia, while also learning how to plan your wedding, wear the best style, begin your own art collection, and succeed at work! Though this book certainly does not focus solely on how to help YOU, rather it inspires you with the life and times of Ghandi, Shakespeare, Picasso, A.A. Milne, Greta Garbo... You name it. This book has it all. Enjoy!

Just like a great pair of heels - I loved this book. I got it for Christmas and it's the best stocking filler. I pick it up every time I walk past it and dip in and out of the pages reading it's lovely fashion and cultural anecdotes and tips. Great idea for a present.

I write this review on 14 August 2009. I read four or five books per week, and this is the worst book I have read this year. I bought it on sale at a fifth the list price, and I wasted my money. The book saddened me because it is such a waste of paper.

There are many kinds of bad books: badly written ones, poorly researched ones, poorly thought out ones, and even poorly proofread ones. This book is bad because (a) the author has nothing to say, has no points to make at all and (b) it seems to comprise nothing but a bunch of rewritten Wikipedia entries. Please stay away from this.

The hundred or so pages I read I read while waiting in a government office for about four hours. Eventually, I put the book down and concentrated on watching, again and again, a video on immigration being looped, with the sound off, on a video screen with a bad tube.

As far as I can gather, the book is a guide to passing for cultured or what have you when you are both undereducated and too lazy to do anything about it.

Meanwhile, I'm reading Life Of John Maynard Keynes and Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology (Music/Culture). Read either of those (or just about anything else, including newspaper supermarket circulars) instead of this.