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Cargando... The Diary of an American Au Pairpor Marjorie Leet Ford
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Fun! ( ) Sly and funny, I liked the author's bloggy style, and the less is more way she ends each chapter. I know the experience is subjective and not representative of all similar jobs, but her experience in a bossy & cheap woman's Scottish/English household would shatter a lot of people's illusions of working as a foreign au pair. (#8 in the 2008 book challenge) This was quick and mostly fun, a first person novel about being an American nanny for an English family. A good deal of it is indeed that voyeuristic trend of finger-wagging at mothers behaving badly. The aspects I liked the most were the general "fish out of water" parts, I think the author did a great job of describing the experience of being a young person working in a different country -- the times when it's great, the times when it's educational, the times when it's maddening, and the times when it is downright weird. For the life of me, I couldn't muster up any interest in the romance parts of the plot -- they felt very forced to me, like the author couldn't muster up much interest either and then overcompensated by making things a little too wacky on this front. Grade B Recommended: To people who have worked abroad, and to Americans who enjoy visiting the UK. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A romantic comedy with a delightfully biting literary edge, this is the story of Melissa, a sharp-eyed American abroad. Fired by her San Francisco ad agency, she cancels her wedding to Ted, and soon regrets her next impulsive move -- across the Atlantic, as au pair to a minorly aristocratic British family, with the mother from hell, an ineffectual, sweet-natured father, and their three children. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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