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Retirement is Fun (Four- book Memoir Series 2) Kindle Edition
In her memoir RETIREMENT IS FUN, which is a sequel to My Life as a Banker - A Life Worth Living, Brenda describes her many wonderful experiences at the end of her banking career.
Reluctant to move on from banking, she amazes herself when she turned down an offer to work in a higher position at another bank.
She chose Insurance instead, and for her, it turned out to be the better choice.
She excelled and qualified for the Premium Association for Financial Professionals [MDRT] six times in a row and her travels around the world skyrocketed.
Within the pages. you will read how Brenda proves that retirement is a time to enjoy life and continue to earn.
For her, retirement is when you stop working to live, and start working at living.
Of course, life is not a bed of roses, and you will read how Brenda stands out as a beacon of light throughout every challenge she faces.
Follow the author on her remarkable journey.
Read a five-star review from an Amazon Reviewer:
“Great Motivational Read!
What can I say about "Retirement Is Fun?"
It's a book that gives the good and the bad of living in this 21st century.
There are incredible miracles and incredible heartbreaks, yet through it all with the support of family and faith in God, we prevail.
The author wrote the story as it occurred, with no frills or embellishments.
She takes the reader along with her to the many places she visited.
Her obvious enjoyment of them is a testament to her wonderful spirit.
The book is written in two parts.
I was happy the author gives us the good news in the first half, that way, the reader is able to see her strength and appreciate from whence she came.
I was impressed with the places she had visited.
I'd thought I was a world traveler, but I take my hat off to her and her wonderful family.
This is a great motivational and inspirational story for anyone who needs uplifting.”
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 12, 2014
- File size2020 KB
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From the Author
Retirement Is Fun" is an enjoyable account of life after retirement, written by an amazing author, Brenda Mohammed. Ms. Mohammed recounts in great detail her decision to embark on a totally new career, with its ensuing challenges and rewards, after retiring from a successful career in banking.
"Why not?" was her mental approach as she entered the world of insurance, quickly rising to the top of the profession as she continually worked tirelessly to increase her skills and abilities.
"Retirement Is Fun" is not only a testament to her success, but to her absolute enjoyment of life and everything it has to offer. Ms. Mohammed writes about her professional successes, but also of her personal life. The reader gets to know her extended family as they are such an integral part of her life. She enjoys her family, travels often and extensively throughout the world, revels in her grandchildren and is a marvelous example of how much one can achieve in life. A Reviewer
From the Back Cover
I faced many challenges such as cancer, deaths of loved ones, and an accident which made me realize that life is very short. On the other hand I had numerous blessings and opportunities in my retirement years. Retirement is indeed fun.
About the Author
Her superb writing skills won her several literary awards in the USA, Peru, Kazakhstan, Seychelles, Nigeria, India, Romania, Argentina, Morocco, Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, and the UK.
Product details
- ASIN : B00KYFNJ6S
- Publisher : Amazon KIndle Direct (June 12, 2014)
- Publication date : June 12, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 2020 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 372 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1499747071
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,015,162 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #43,903 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies
- #72,474 in Memoirs (Kindle Store)
- #89,877 in Travel (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
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Brenda Mohammed from Trinidad and Tobago is a former Bank Manager who published 62 books in multiple genres and wrote a five-series screenplay for her sci-fi thriller Zeeka Chronicles: Revenge of Zeeka.
Reviewers have compared her futuristic novel, Zeeka Chronicles, to Frankenstein, Twilight Zone, and Shakespeare’s plays, and some have said it is movie material. Brenda captured awards from Readers’ Favorite International, Author Academy Global Awards, and Readers’ Choice for that book.
Brenda’s genres include memoirs, science fiction, romance, self-help, mystery thrillers, children’s books, psychological thrillers, Christian books, poetry, and poetry anthologies.
She won several International literary awards in 45 countries - the USA, Peru, Kazakhstan, Seychelles, Nigeria, India, Romania, Argentina, Ukraine, Morocco, Philippines, Oman, Hong Kong, Portugal, Uruguay, Indonesia, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Switzerland, Italy, Sri Lanka, Austria, Russia, Germany, Syria, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Chile, Egypt, Honduras, Mexico, Pakistan, Cuba, China, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Ecuador, Bosnia, Japan, Greece, Trinidad and Tobago, and the UK.
Her memoir ‘I Am Cancer Free’ also won an award for Health and Fitness in Readers’ Favorite International Awards 2018.
Barry Holmes Mysteries, a mystery fiction also won several awards. The book received a five-star review from Readers' Favorite International in September 2021. For this book, Brenda won the Culture, Literature, and Research [CLR] Award in India for Best Writer- Fantasy. On World Book Day in April 2023, the book received a certificate of recognition from The International Chamber of Writers and Artists [CIESART], Spain. In May 2024, Barry Holmes Mysteries was a finalist in the Independent Author Awards 2024 hosted by Literary Global Awards.
Her Romance stories are filled with humour, mystery, suspense, and unexpected endings.
The memoirs of her Life as a Banker and her Travel Memoirs are delightful.
Brenda was recently inspired to write Christian books and to date, she has published nine of them.
She loves to share her knowledge and wrote three books on How to Write for Success, and Self-Publishing tips for new and aspiring authors. How to Write for Success received a five-star review from Readers Favorite one month after its publication in December 2017. In August 2019 it topped all the books in the Non-Fiction category of Connections Emagazine Readers' Choice awards and won the gold medal in the category of non-fiction. It also placed second in all categories and won the silver medal. Brenda's romance novel, 'Stories People Love,' was the first-place winner in this contest and won the gold medal for placing first in all categories.
The merits of the book HOW TO WRITE FOR SUCCESS were featured in a review in the Ethiopian Herald Sunday Edition on February 16th, 2020.
She is an advocate for Peace, Suicide Prevention, and Against Domestic Violence.
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Customers find the book highly descriptive and intimate. They describe it as a motivational and inspirational read that is uplifting. The author is well-traveled, visiting many places around the world.
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Customers praise the author's writing style. They find the book highly descriptive and intimate, providing a glimpse into the author's life after retirement. The author writes the account as it occurs, without frills or embellishments. The story is engaging and manages to peak their interest with all the trials and tribulations.
"...Fun" is an enjoyable account of life after retirement, written by an amazing author, Brenda Mohammed...." Read more
"...the minute details of the author’s daily agenda, it still manages to peak one’s interest with all the trials and tribulations, joys and agonies,..." Read more
"...The author wrote the accounting as it occurred, with no frills or embellishments. She takes the reader along with her to the many places she visited...." Read more
"I love this story! A tale of the heart. I was hooked on the first page and couldn't stop until I finished it...." Read more
Customers find the book motivating and inspirational. They describe it as a tale of the heart, with its wonderful spirit, joys, and struggles.
"...to peak one’s interest with all the trials and tribulations, joys and agonies, laughter and sadness she experiences during the course of her busy..." Read more
"...Her obvious enjoyment in them is a testament to her wonderful spirit. The book is written in two parts...." Read more
"I love this story! A tale of the heart. I was hooked on the first page and couldn't stop until I finished it...." Read more
Customers appreciate the author's travel experiences. They mention she travels often and extensively throughout the world, enjoys her family, and is impressed with the places she has visited.
"...She enjoys her family, travels often and extensively throughout the world, revels in her grandchildren and is a marvelous example of how much one..." Read more
"...In fact, with such a hectic travel schedule and so many landmark occasions peppering this memoir, it’s amazing that Mohammed has managed to pack so..." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017"Retirement Is Fun" is an enjoyable account of life after retirement, written by an amazing author, Brenda Mohammed. Ms. Mohammed recounts in great detail her decision to embark on a totally new career, with its ensuing challenges and rewards, after retiring from a successful career in banking.
"Why not?" was her mental approach as she entered the world of insurance, quickly rising to the top of the profession as she continually worked tirelessly to increase her skills and abilities.
"Retirement Is Fun" is not only a testament to her success, but to her absolute enjoyment of life and everything it has to offer. Ms. Mohammed writes about her professional successes, but also of her personal life. The reader gets to know her extended family as they are such an integral part of her life. She enjoys her family, travels often and extensively throughout the world, revels in her grandchildren and is a marvelous example of how much one can achieve in life. Such an enjoyable read!
- Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2017Take a flight into the fascinating and fast-paced life of author Brenda Mohammed as she reflects on her years of early retirement. “Retirement is Fun” reads like a journal detailing the many aspects of Mohammed’s post-retirement days spent traveling the world. We follow her and her family as they globe-trot from their native Trinidad to the world’s largest cities, including Rome, London, and New York, to more exotic locations, such as Spain, Anguillar, and Columbia, and to popular tourist destinations like Hollywood and Las Vegas, as the author gives her impressions of each stop along the way.
“Retirement is Fun” reads much like a travel itinerary, but in diary form. Sometimes repetitious in the minute details of the author’s daily agenda, it still manages to peak one’s interest with all the trials and tribulations, joys and agonies, laughter and sadness she experiences during the course of her busy life. In fact, with such a hectic travel schedule and so many landmark occasions peppering this memoir, it’s amazing that Mohammed has managed to pack so much into her life—not to mention between the pages.
Highly-descriptive and quite intimate, “Retirement is Fun” provides a satisfying glimpse into the life of this well-traveled woman.
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2018What can I say about "Retirement Is Fun?" It’s a book that gives the good and the bad of living in this 21st century. There incredible miracles and incredible heart breaks, yet through it all with the support of family and faith in God, we prevail.
The author wrote the accounting as it occurred, with no frills or embellishments. She takes the reader along with her to the many places she visited. Her obvious enjoyment in them is a testament to her wonderful spirit.
The book is written in two parts. I was happy the author gives us the good news in the first half, that way, the reader is able to see her strength and appreciate from whence she came. I was impressed with the places she had visited. I’d thought I was a world traveler, but I take my hat off to her and her wonderful family.
This is a great motivational and inspirational story for anyone who needs uplifting.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2017The novel Retirement is Fun by Brenda Mohammed may be deceptively read as an account of a continuous intercontinental road trip. However Retirement is Fun can more accurately read as the saga of the quiet determination of an unassuming heroine to maintain and promote social cohesion and interdependence of the family as she knows it. Brenda gives life to the family which in turn gives life to her. It’s the web of family closeness facilitated by Brenda from she draws strength in her darkest hour as she is afflicted with cancer and successfully grapples with retirement. The family dynamics begs interpretation and one finds it in the context of the social and cultural back ground of the collectivist substrata. It is in Brenda’s indefatigable efforts to champion the cause of family even as she journeys through a series sicknesses, births and deaths sequences and remains unfazed that a true hero is born.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2018I love this story! A tale of the heart. I was hooked on the first page and couldn't stop until I finished it. Awesome story and I recommend you get this book. I plan to read this again and keep it in my library of books! The author does not disappoint!!!!
- Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2017Enlightening and inspiring, author Brenda Mohammed takes us through a bird's eye view turned fly on the wall look at her life. Banking? Insurance? Exotic holidays? For some of us, such a life is beyond our reach. For those of us to strive just be a little bit better at what we do, each and every day, we are the kind of reader suited to this book.
Anyone can read it, but you will be pleasantly surprised just how the author takes on new challenges with gusto. True, she has a large family and strong network of friends egging her on, but this is clearly her own tale, and how retirement is anything but a door closing.
It is a new opening, a new chapter, and it is fun to read as well as have some very poignant moments in it. A great companion to her other memoirs, but stands well on its own. Far from being something to fear, the author teaches the reader to really go for it in life.
Nicely done.
Top reviews from other countries
- Avid ReaderReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2014
4.0 out of 5 stars A heart warming story filled with familial love and faith.
The book is written in the style of a diary, and one I got used to this, it worked fine. Brenda's incredible story as a cancer survived is revealed, amongst the life changing adventures of her retirement. I had to finish the book in one sitting as I was intrigued to discover the outcome. The story is also a travelogue, and as I had visited some of the places Brenda mentions, wonderful memories of my own travels have been evoked. I love the fact that stores and restaurants visited were mentioned, as on occasions I could chime,"I've been there". The practical description of the wonderful countries and cities Brenda has seen, has left me with a bigger bucket list. The most wonderful thing about this book is the faith,hope and love of Brenda and her family. It is a book of hope and that will bless the reader.