Nan is truly a woman making it on her own in the big city. She lives up to the Mary Tyler Moore ideal: she works, pays for her own apartment, is finishing school, has a man-friend, and deals with all of the crazy shit in her life
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March 12, 2008
It’s Hump Day!
After I was finally able to move past the flat, boring character names in the Nanny Diaries, my thoughts moved to Mrs. X. What does she do all day that keeps her so busy she needs a nanny full-time, and is rarely home to talk to Nanny in person? Personal hygiene practices and beauty outings [...]
March 11, 2008
It’s Tuesday!!!
Hey girlfriends!
So while reading Nanny Diaries, the one question that screamed at me throughout the entire book was, what is Nanny doing staying with this family?!?!?! On one hand, I appreciate the relationship Nanny formed with Grayer and her feeling of obligation to him, as she was the only healthy and loving relationship in his [...]
March 11, 2008
Monday….sort of
“Just how does an intelligent, adult woman become someone whose whole sterile kingdom has been reduced to alphabetized lingerie drawers and imported French dairy substitutes? Where is the child in this home? Where is the woman in this mother? And how, exactly, am I to fit in?-Nanny Diaries
My ‘area of interest’ [...]
March 4, 2008
Lipstick Jungle + SEX
I started reading Lipstick Jungle last night and I noticed that all of the women in this book have a very strong sex drive, similar to the women in Sex and The City. I feel like this is something very rarely addressed in books about women written by men – maybe it’s because they feel [...]
February 18, 2008
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