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Citizen Girl is the sophomore effort from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, whose Nanny Diaries sent Park Avenue mothers running for cover and catapulted the duo to cult-like status amongst gossip literature's elite. This time around, our heroine is Girl, a twentysomething women's studies major whose liberal arts education led her to believe that saving women from worldwide oppression was as easy as reporting for duty at her local feminist non-profit. As Girl soon learns, no job is ever as it seems, and even the director of the Center for Equity in Community is not free from manipulating her staff in order to get ahead. As we follow Girl through unemployment and an eventual position as the Director of Rebranding Knowledge Acquisition for My Company, McLaughlin and Kraus invite readers on a raucous journey though the ups and downs of early 21st Century corporate life. While at times disjointed and overly crass, Citizen Girl certainly has its moments. Most post-grad women will be able to identify with Girl on at least some level, whether it be returning to Career Services with her tail between her legs or forgiving her boyfriend for hiring a stripper at his best friend's bachelor party. ("I turn to find Buster slumped on my front stoop, soaked to the skin behind a proffered bouquet of hopeful white tulips.") Some readers may tire of Girl's particular combination of naiveté and idealism after the first 50 pages, and the blatant stereotypes may wear thin after a while (Girl's boss at My Company is named Guy, and the woman they hire to turn things around is called Manley). Still, Girl's story is intriguing enough that by the end of the book, most of us will be rooting for her as she negotiates her way through the tumultuous battlefield that often is corporate America. --Gisele Toueg

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Please stop. Stop writing books. OK, The Nanny Diaries had it's moments and was a compulsively readable little tale. Congratulations, your first book was successful and made you probably richer than you'd ever dream possible. Why didn't you just...more...]]> 1 4 false false Sat Mar 01 09:40:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 04:43:39 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 09:39:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 12:57:27 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 08:23:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 06:37:40 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 19:51:49 -0700 2008 1 2 false false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 26 06:48:01 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 18 22:16:36 -0700 2009
I should have put it down as soon as I realized the main character's name was "Girl." No, really. And her boss is named "Guy"! And her boyfriend is named "Buster"! And the woman brought in to reorganize her company is named "Manl...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Feb 08 18:47:46 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 19:20:30 -0800 2008 The Nanny Diaries, so I was excited to read their second book, but...major disappointment. I don't actually remember too much - must have been too painful to keep in my memory - but I can tell you that I was ready for Girl or Twat or Dumbass or whatever her name was to shut the hell up about...more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 21:52:36 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 08:22:17 -0700 2007 The Nanny Diaries but then it does.

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Easy reading and is a feel good book.

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Putting aside the names: Girl, Guy, Buster, Manley, the whole book is so irritati...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jun 29 00:09:51 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 22:26:21 -0700 2007 1 0 false false Fri Jul 17 16:31:49 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 16:42:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 15:33:33 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 15:34:19 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Fri Jan 30 07:06:01 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 07:12:32 -0800 2009 The Nanny Diaries -- oh, actually I think it's because I needed a book at the airport and the bookstore was quite poorly stocked.
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I’ll be honest, I couldn’t finish this book. Maybe it was my current state of mind (searching for a job/figuring out life/figuring out what I want to do), but I had ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 11:04:34 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 11:18:10 -0800 2008 once more...]]>