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Summary: Fun and Easy Read
Review: This book was great. It was fun to pick up and hard to put down. I wanted to finish it all in one sitting, but it made it better to read a few pages and then wait an hour, so you can think about the characters. It was a great story, and towards the end, you really feel for this young kid, Grayer, and how it must be to be a part of this family. I really got mad at the end, though, it was sad, I thought, and not the way I would have wanted it. It was a great book, and very fun to read.
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Summary: From one author to two others...
Review: Your work is excellent, excellent, excellent. If I didn't know better, I'd say I just spent about two days raising little "Grover" myself and ripping the hair out of Mrs. X. Mr. X doesn't even deserve my typed words. This was a WONDERFUL escape from my typical seven-day-work-week. Please! Write more!
Eva Marie Everson, Author/ Shadow of Dreams & Summon the Shadows
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Summary: Not only disappointing, but annoying
Review: What a complete disappointment! All I wanted to do from about 1/2 way through the book was to scream at "Nanny" to repost at the Parent's League and get another job! I had absolutely zero sympathy and exceedingly little respect for her by the end of the book. I had thought it would be about multiple jobs with multiple families, not one long whine about a single one. Save your money and your time.
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Summary: Cinderella Strikes Back
Review: With a kickoff chapter titled, The Interview, the book hits the New York twin-set nanny world with a two-sided wooden spoon pounding out "nanny abuse" + "good writing". Unfortunately, the rest of the chapters are written by a real nanny, who specializes in see-through plot points and obvious names, such as "Nan" and "Harvard Hottie". I enjoyed the kicks at the non-institution of NY marriage and on the world of competitive parenting, such as the smug, "My child goes to a better school than yours, but don't feel bad." But there were no surprises, except earmuffs, and even the boyfriend was a cliché of liberal male perfection to counteract the book's cliché of male pattern badness. The book should be titled, "They Treat Me Like the Servant (I Am)," by Cinderella, who gets the last punch.
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Summary: The Nanny Diaries - Audiobook read by Julia Roberts
Review: Julia Roberts does all the voices, with such unflagging energy that the story becomes totally her own. It's as though, instead of the richest woman in Hollywood under forty, she were a twenty-one-year old NYU senior working for the most deluded trophy wife on Park Avenue (whose voice she also does). This is class warfare in the trenches, with some of the overtones of Nickel and Dimed. Here, a bratty four-year-old named Grayer is transformed by forebearance and patience into the sparkling being which is a beloved young child (Julia whines, wheedles and caresses her way through his lines, too). Nan, the nanny, conveys that her place on the social ladder actually started out several rungs above that of her employer (who's only been acquired as in some merger by the more blue-blooded husband), though she transcends class, even while knuckling under to requirements of the job. Besides actual care for Grayer, there's constant dressing for the imaginary eyes of the social critics who have been ceded by trophy wife the power to decide the child's future at the right pre-school or birthday party. Unfortunately, what mom seems not to see is that dad is a cad. Nan learns more than she bargained for, and then she learns about how very fierce even ditsy mother's survival skills actually can be.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: This book was so good I didn't want to put it down. This book really makes you think what it
would be like to be a nanny. Sure, most nanny's make a lot of money, but being a nanny isn't all
fun and games.
My favorite character was definitely Nanny herself. You could tell she had been a nanny
for a while, and she was very professional about it.
I was actually considering maybe being a nanny. I thought, "How hard can it be?" Well,
I got my answer. It's HARD.
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Summary: Too many expletives
Review: This was an interesting book -- an eye opener for those of us who can't afford, nor want to, a nanny. I wish the authors would have used fewer expletives -- particularly the "f" word. That's the biggest downfall of this book. My sympathies to those raised in this high stress, affluent lifestyle. I'm glad there are caring nannies to make up for the absence of the important mother figure.
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Summary: fun but ultimately too sad
Review: This book isn't meant to be deep -- it's fun and absorbing and the details of the Xes lifestyle make for a good read. But what happens to Grayer (the nanny's 4-year-old charge) is ultimately too disturbing to make me recommend the book. At least the puppy was saved....
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Summary: Loved it 'til the end
Review: I LOVED this book (until the last chapter.) It was incredibly engaging: well-written, funny, and, yes, tragic, with a spunky and likable main character. I couldn't put it down and couldn't wait to find out how it would end. Then I got to the last chapter, and in a few short pages, it suddenly did end, but unsatisfactorily. The ending felt rushed, as if the authors were writing a term paper and were almost over the number of allowed pages, wrapping things up as quickly as possible. I liked the idea of how it ended, but the execution of the ending was a bit watered down. The result: a let down.
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Summary: An important commentary on the very rich!
Review: This is an amazing book that highlights the self-absorbed, narcissistic, unconnected, superficial and hard-edged lifestyle of some who are very rich and what can happen to the children of such parents. Mrs. X is verbally and emotionally abusive to Grayer's nanny, Nan, and unloving and disconnected from her own child. Mr. X is absent and having an affair with Ms. Chicago. I found their lifestyle, selfishness and disregard for anyone but themselves appalling. I'd like to think people really aren't this way, but I know some parents are. Grayer, a sweet, engaging 4-year-old, suffers from being unloved, disregarded, and treated like a possession by his parents. The only person who truly cares about him, and appreciates and respects him, is Nanny. Nanny is very good with Grayer and cares for him beautifully given the difficult situation she is in with Mr. and Mrs. X. The ending is sad and anyone that understands child development knows it will be devastating for Grayer. A sad but enlightening tale, likely mostly true unfortunately. I wish there was something we could do to teach people like Mr. and Mrs. X to be caring, loving parents rather than cold robots out for their own edification. It is their children who suffer the most.
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