Life's a Banquet
If life gives you lemons ... add gin.
Life’s a Banquet is the unofficial but essential ‘guide book’ to negotiating your way through life – through education, family life and business, to relationships, marriage, failure and rejection.
Aged 21, Robin Bennett was set to become a cavalry officer and aged 21 and a half, he found himself working as an assistant grave digger in South London – wondering where it had all gone wrong.
Determined to succeed, he went on and founded The Bennett Group, aged 23, and since then has gone on to start and run over a dozen successful businesses in a variety of areas from dog-sitting to cigars, translation to home tuition. In 2003, Robin was recognised in Who’s Who as one of the UK’s most successful business initiators. Catapulting readers through his colourful life and career, Robin Bennett’s memoir is an inspiring tale.
I had never heard of Robin Bennett before, but thought this might be an interesting read.
For the most part it was, but I found the jumping around a bit irritating and all the foot notes were a pain in the proverbial. You couldn't click on the number to take you to the footnote, you had to wait till later to read them and then try and remember what they were in reference to. Kindle footnotes should be clickable both ways. This broke the flow of the book.
For someone heavily involved with language, the creeping in of the expression “fed up of” as opposed to “fed up with” was surprising.
What was not surprising I suppose was the fact that in all probability the studying of a degree was probably unnecessary, or at least in Robin's case. He may have learned other life skills in this time, survival skills, but as he doesn't have a certificate to prove his degree and has never actually needed to, it seems it was a waste of money. Would they be allowed to refuse the certificate today?
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.