Packing for a six month journey was not an easy one.  I love to read and bringing a small library of books with me was not an option. So I finally broke down and bought a Kindle.

I love it. My husband has already acquired a small library on his Kindle, (which is linked to mine), so I have enough to keep me occupied for a few weeks. I read this book on the plane; Cultural Dimensions of Expatriate Life in South Korea, by Bill Drake.  It gave me a crash course on Korean Culture, which has already proven to be useful.

There was one book that I couldn’t bring myself to leave behind, Peter Schiff’s Crash Proof 2.0.This book has been a real eye opener for me. In the past I never had much of an interest in economics. The bursting of the housing bubble and the shrinking job market has effected my husband and I in many ways.  I stumbled upon one of Peter’s video blogs by accident one day and I was very impressed with what he had to say. This was before he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

This book is not political – just common sense economics. Peter Schiff predicted the bursting of the housing bubble many years ago. This book is just an update to the original Crash Proof. I would highly recommend either book to anyone who wants to know why the U.S. is in a recession, and most important, what you can do to protect your savings. The fundamentals of the U.S. economy are not sound, it is a house of cards that may be about to come tumbling down. more…