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Charles Lamb: Thoughts on Retirement

I opened a book at random this morning and saw this encouraging perspective on retirement from English essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834). In his day, attaining the age of fifty made one "superannuated...

reddit.com Oct 26 2024

How To Retire (A Book Review)

If you’re wondering How To Retire, today is your lucky day. A book titled “How To Retire: 20 Lessons for a Happy, Successful, and Wealthy Retirement” (Amazon Affiliate link) is [&hel...

theretirementmanifesto.com Sep 17 2024

How to Retire – Book Review

Christine Benz has a new book, How to Retire: 20 Lessons for a Happy, Successful, and Wealthy Retirement dropping tomorrow. I was able to get an advance copy. Spoiler alert: it’s excellent. The ...

caniretireyet.com Sep 17 2024

Bus trip vacations, is this normal?

Now that I'm retired I decided to go on a bus trip for a week with a friend as I have never been on one before. My friend has, and talked about bringing books and magazines for us to read on the bus (...

reddit.com Aug 25 2024

Can you recommend a book about unexpected retirement?

A friend of mine (age 60) who thought their job was secure was suddenly informed that it is not secure. This person still has children under 18 and their spouse is already retired. My friend asked me ...

reddit.com Aug 09 2024

Free e-Books for Everyone Who Love to Read

Thousands of books are available as free e-books Do you love to read, but cannot afford to constantly buy new books? Did you know that there are ways to satisfy your needs with all the free e-books yo...

baby-boomer-retirement.com Feb 29 2024

I'm having trouble finishing books.

They say most books should be an article and most articles should be a tweet. Maybe that is why I'm having a heck of a time getting through books these days. I can get through a third to half of nonfi...

reddit.com Feb 29 2024

A Gift

Recently, a long time follower gifted me with a book. Knowing I was widowed in 2022, she messaged me and asked if she could send me Hope For Widows – Reflections on Mourning, Living, and Change ...

kathysretirementblog.com Jan 31 2024

Reflections from 10 Years of Financial Independence

Note: The winner of the book giveaway from last week will be announced at the end of this post Happy New Year! Hope you are all warm and comfy in your homes and celebrating with your families and frie...

millennial-revolution.com Jan 03 2024

The Best Advice from JL Collins

To celebrate the release of JL Collins’ new book, Pathfinders, I collected all the best advice from his Financial Independence Podcast interviews! Jim has been on the show three times: First, ba...

madfientist.com Dec 05 2023

Any good books to read on Estate Planning?

My dad passed away a couple of years ago, and the entire process of probate, inheritance, beneficiaries was a mess. The emotional effects were obviously hard enough on my mom, but this compounded ever...

reddit.com Nov 30 2023

Pathfinders Book Review

One of the life-changing blogs that got us on this FIRE path is JL Collins’s blog. This is why we call him the “Godfather of FI” and he has also written a book called “the Simp...

millennial-revolution.com Oct 30 2023

Example Of A Book Proposal That Should Have Been Accepted

So you want to publish the next great book! To do so you first need a book proposal. Back in late 2011, I spent hours putting together a book proposal for my severance negotiation strategy book, How T...

financialsamurai.com Oct 23 2023

Where Michael Lewis Went Wrong

Last week, Michael Lewis's new book Going Infinite, detailing the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried ("SBF") and his cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was released to a wave of outrage. It all started when...

ofdollarsanddata.com Oct 10 2023

A Satisfying Retirement Involves Change

Over twelve years of blogging, several books, a national magazine profile, and countless friends, both virtual and real, Satisfying Retirement has been a central part of my retired life. In fact, I ha...

satisfyingretirement.blogspot.com Oct 09 2023

Book Review: A Healthy State of Panic

Farnoosh Torabi is an author, journalist, podcaster, speaker, and thought leader in personal finance with a special connection to this blog. Her 2012 interview with Caroline and me at our home in Chat...

caniretireyet.com Oct 03 2023

Outlive – The Science & Art of Longevity (A Book Review)

Note:  This post includes Amazon Affiliate links, which will compensate me at no cost to you if you order through the links. It’s rare when a book makes me change […] The post Outlive...

theretirementmanifesto.com Sep 14 2023

The 11 Best Investing Books [That You Can’t Miss]

Navigating the investing world can be daunting, especially if you don't have much experience. With complex jargon, a vast history, and countless strategies to choose from, knowing where to begin can s...

ofdollarsanddata.com Jun 29 2023

Free “Retirement Wreckers” Kindle book

This is not an endorsement as I haven’t read it or know much more about it except for the description but the price is right. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW4SYBSY?ie=UTF8&_encoding=UTF8&...

reddit.com Mar 23 2023

Top 5 Personal Finance Books To Read In 2023

It is becoming a tradition to share my favorite personal finance books each year and I love to do it. So many great financial minds are sharing their insights and narrowing it down to only five is a c...

forbes.com Mar 21 2023

Retirement Rebootcast Episode Four: Navigating Medicare

Welcome tothe Retirement Rebootcast. That’s what I’m calling this special podcast series on my new book –Retirement Reboot: Commonsense Financial Strategies for Getting Back on Track...

retirementrevised.com Jan 27 2023

When Your Country Becomes a Global Outcast

Last time I shared with you a story from my new book Pathfinders from a reader in Ukraine, Roman Koshovskyi, titled Staying the Course in War-Time. Today we hear from Artem Voronov, a reader in centra...

jlcollinsnh.com Jan 23 2023

In Defense of Dollar Cost Averaging

Exactly 12 weeks ago I released my first book, Just Keep Buying. Though the responses to the book have been overwhelming positive, one critique I have seen a few times is that the book's main philosop...

ofdollarsanddata.com Jul 05 2022

Just Keep Buying (The Book)

Say it with me: Just. Keep. Buying. These three words could change your life. These three words could make you rich. But before I tell you how, let me explain how these three words changed my life. Fi...

ofdollarsanddata.com Apr 12 2022