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Summary: These people do exist!
Review: This book realistically captures the "High Rent" lifestyle of the New York rich-or for that matter the upper crust across the country. I will qualify this by saying that all the rich are not like the characters depicted in the book, but there are some underlying sililarities. The young women in this book trys desparetely to give some semblence of normality to the young boy in the book. His parents are too busy or uninterested to take any special notice of him-except what he will be wearing when he plays with other children. She basically ends up being an indentured servant dealing with unrealistic requests from the spoiled parents. I know some people like Mrs. X in the book who go from massage appointments, to nail appointments to luncheons, but they treat their children much better. I am glad that the book was not too life-like.
I loved this book. You can tell by the authors' refrences that they are very familiar with their subjects.
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Summary: Nanny Diaries: A must read for former nannies!
Review: AMAZING! Anyone who has worked as a nanny in New York will see themselves and their employers in this book. It is so full of accurate descriptions of a day in the life of a nanny that I thought I'd wake up in my live-in bedroom in NYC. The book is true and funny, but it helps to remember that endings between children and their nannies are often sad. (The people who employ nannies, if they bother to read this, will not see the truth in it, which you know means it's completely accurate.)
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Summary: Nanny rocks and Granny swings
Review: This is a very entertaining book. I laughed all the way through it!
We all know members of the younger generation with names like, Dylan and Christebelle and Damien. It is good that they all have such names because they are not playground friendly If some kid is still named Ralph AKA "Butch" to his nearest and dearest., watch out Grayer!
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Summary: Entertaining but...
Review: sometimes I found the writing a bit amateurish, but perhaps this was an accurate reflection of Nanny's state of mind. What I want to know is whether nanny employer's really are like this? It was nice, however, to see contemporary New York City from a regular person's point of view, and to know that there are regular city folks, like Nanny's parents. I would recommend it to a friend. It's a fun holiday read.
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Summary: The Nanny Diaries
Review: As a collegestudent/nanny for a family I thought this book was completely accurate discribing the insanity "mommies" put their nannies through. Kudos to McLaughlin and Kraus who were able to put their experiences into words. The book was so well written I staid up until 3 am to finish it. I highly recommend the book.
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Summary: Hooked on Nanny
Review: I couldn't believe how accurate the book was to the childcare setting of wealthy Manhattan. From the "Interview" to the uncanny description of the Park Avenue mother I was "Hooked on Nanny"!
If you're looking for an UNBELIEVABLE laugh-a-minute, this satire-ish book is for YOU!
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Summary: A peek at the lifestyles of the rich and selfish.
Review: Emma McLaughlin's and Nicola Kraus's new sensation, "The Nanny Diaries" is a hot item these days. This book is an expose about the self-centered, mean-spirited and filthy-rich mothers who populate Park Avenue in Manhattan and the nannies that they hire. McLaughlin and Kraus, former nannies themselves, write a disclaimer at the beginning of the book, insisting that "any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is coincidental." Why don't I believe this disclaimer?"The Nanny Diaries" follows a year in the life of a young NYU student named, appropriately enough, Nan, who takes a job caring for four-year-old Grayer. He is the rambunctious son of a couple known to us only as Mr. and Mrs. X. Nanny, as she is called by almost everyone in the novel, finds out quickly that she has signed on for a stint of indentured servitude. Mrs. X insists that Nanny be the perfect caregiver, according to Mrs. X's exacting and quirky standards, and she also finds a myriad of other chores to keep Nanny running around in a mad frenzy. As time goes on, Nanny becomes attached to Grayer, and she becomes equally disgusted with Mr. and Mrs. X. They are cold to Grayer and their behavior is pretentious, shallow and self-centered. While trying to maintain her self-respect in a degrading job, Nanny is also juggling her schoolwork and her social life. Is the money that she is earning caring for Grayer worth the exhaustion and the humiliation that she must often endure? Believe it or not, Mrs. X forces Nanny to attend a Halloween party dressed as a Teletubby! McLauglin and Kraus effectively capture the moneyed lifestyle of the Park Avenue parents who care more about the brand names that their kids wear than about the kids themselves. Although the characterizations are extreme and border on caricature, it is apparent that they are based on truth. However, is "The Nanny Diaries" good fiction? The novel is so one-dimensional and the authors are so anxious to hammer home their points that the novel doesn't completely work as fiction. The few scenes with humanity and warmth do not offset the endless name-dropping and whining which make up the bulk of the novel. However, as an exercise in voyeurism, "The Nanny Diaries" works very well indeed. We get a first-hand account of what really goes on in the living rooms and vacation homes of the overprivileged and the underprincipled. Although there are many humorous passages in this book, it is ultimately a sad novel about people who have sold their souls and their humanity for the sake of wealth and of keeping up "appearances." One of the lessons that McLaughlin and Kraus forcefully drive home is that there are quite a few rich people are really lousy parents as well as miserable human beings.
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Summary: a wonderful read!
Review: the perfect escapist summer read!!
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Summary: REQUIRED READING FOR ALL PARENTS...
Review: If you recognize yourself through the behaviors of this impossibly [difficult] Mother or the ever absent father, take heed.
This book had me laughing one moment, enraged the next, and then crying thereafter. It was a fabulous offering, but it is so upsetting to know that there are children out there who are living in a loveless, sterile environment with their nannies as their only salvation. The "mommy card" is tossed whenever the mother feels that the nanny is closer to the child than she.
How terribly sad.
Bravo to the authors!
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Summary: Yes, it IS all that!.....horrifyingly wonderful & scathing!!
Review: Everything wonderful everyone has said is TRUE! It is a page-turner, 2-day read that you just can't put down. So, so, very wicked, but real at the same time. I found myself putting the book down from time to time and just hugging my 3-year old. Even my husband, who rarely reads the same things I read, stayed up all nite to finish this book! Wickedly wonderful for these women to write so well - and truly horrifying that these wealthy, elite parents really do treat their nannies and own children so poorly. You must, must read this book!
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