Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life
Morgan Housel · 2025
🎙 Narrated by Chris Hill
76/100
👍 Worth It
Housel shifts from earning to spending with the same clear-eyed, values-first thinking that made his last book a hit — it's more meditation than manual, but that's the point, and it's been well received across several independent finance blogs. Chris Hill's narration is a good match, conversational and knowledgeable, making this an easy worthwhile listen.
✦ 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: good Chris Hill (financial media personality, formerly of The Motley Fool) delivers a knowledgeable, conversational read well suited to the material.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing80
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy72
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit88
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict76
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