Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
My Money My Way: Taking Back Control of Your Financial Life
Kumiko Love · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Kumiko Love (self-narrated)
80/100
👍 Worth It
Kumiko Love's own story — divorced, $77k in debt, raising a kid on $24k a year — grounds a genuinely useful paycheck-by-paycheck budgeting system, and she's refreshingly honest that shame trips people up more than the math ever does. This is one of the more human, practical budgeting books out there. She narrates it herself, and hearing her tell her own story in her own voice makes the listen land even harder.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Self-narrated in a personal, confessional memoir style that suits the book's tone.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety92
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing80
Originality74
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers22
Age-fit85
Human-eye read82
Penny’s verdict80
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