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Summary: vivid and funny
Review: This is the real scoop on nannying for the rich and/or famous.Amusing, witty, and at the same time, touching, "You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again" contains improbable anecdotes and hilarious takes of the surreal lifestyles of Hollywood bigwigs. Great escapist summer reading that is also a story of self-discovery.
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Summary: This Book Puts the FUN in DysFUNctional
Review: This principled, young nanny is given an unparalleled education in the service of the rich and famous where priorities are too often askew. It's a crash course in psychology as she learns to deal up-close and personal with neurosis -- alternately ludicrous and heartbreaking. Let us just say that the children do not present the only behavioral management challenges. In truth, there are times when the children and the adults are the patients running the asylum. Excess is a way of life with these power brokers, though hidden penny-pinching sometimes exposes their eccentricities. The players run the gambit from plastic to genuine, from mean-spirited to magnanimous, and from toxic to charismatic. Using an engaging narrative style that often reads like letters home to family and chums, the author takes you behind the scenes and reveals the unvarnished truth and idiosyncratic personalities of certain film industry titans. Grounded in small-town wisdom and solid family values, she shares many opportunities to compare and contrast childhood for the entitled versus the more mundane upbringing of the "huddled masses." Exactly who is privileged and who is impoverished? That's for you to decide and why. But if you are present and available as "your kids' mom (or dad)," I believe you'll cherish the blessing of such normalcy like never before. Maybe the appeal of this book is our ongoing fascination with class distinctions/celebrity life which provides the drama and lure in such popular offerings as People Magazine, Upstairs, Downstairs, and of course, The Nanny Diaries. However, unlike Nanny Diaries, this memoir names many names making it an irresistible immersion into a way of life most of us will never know.
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Summary: Living the So Called "Good Life" isn't so Good, after all..
Review: This story has a lot to teach all of us about what we assume wealth buys. It goes beyond what we have always been taught... "Money doesn't buy happiness" even though many of us have secretly believed..."if only I had that much money, I KNOW I could live happily ever after".....I suggest you read this funny and surprisingly insightful memoir and have your mind changed, just like mine was. I wish this former nanny all the best and would like to thank her for taking the risk to write this book. I will never look at Hollywood the same again.
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Summary: VERY hard to put down - SAD to finish it
Review: This was such an interesting book, a hard a hard time putting it down to do my daily routine. Suzanne shows the REAL world of the rich and famous, excitedly doing some true name dropping in the process. In this case, Michael Ovitz and family(the Svartz family). After reading her story, I no longer have any envy for those who live in huge mansions with fat bank accounts. True happiness is within your family and not how much you spend on them. An eye opener. Definitely recommended reading for those interested in how the help is treated and for those who wonder what it is really like to work for them.
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Summary: A great look into the world of the uber-rich!
Review: This was such an interesting book, a hard a hard time putting it down to do my daily routine. Suzanne shows the REAL world of the rich and famous, excitedly doing some true name dropping in the process. In this case, Michael Ovitz and family(the Svartz family). After reading her story, I no longer have any envy for those who live in huge mansions with fat bank accounts. True happiness is within your family and not how much you spend on them. An eye opener. Definitely recommended reading for those interested in how the help is treated and for those who wonder what it is really like to work for them.
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Summary: Nanny book review
Review: What an excellent book!! I laughed so much, and so hard, at the adventures and misadventures of Suzanne. This definitely will show you, within her stories, what you do NOT want to do when accepting a Nanny job. I am currently training to become a Nanny at the same school Suzanne went to. This book has come in handy to help me know what and what not to do when I start looking for a job.
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Summary: The travails of coping with child and adult tantrums
Review: You'll Never Nanny In This Town Again! is the engaging and lively memoir of Suzanne Hansen, a woman who worked in Los Angeles as a nanny to the children of parents who are "big names" in the Hollywood film industry. Describing the travails of coping with child and adult tantrums, the bonds that fellow nannies have, daily life behind mansion gates, and more, You'll Never Nanny In This Town Again! is unique and very highly recommended for anyone fascinated by the private lives of big name stars -- as well as the lives of those who work for them in order to put food on the table.
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