"If you're going to do something, darling, then do it
all the way."
Sometimes I get in this mood where I want to read books that
just aren't going to be really deep. Do you understand? Books that won't weigh
on me and cause emotional turmoil, you know where I can't do anything for
several hours after finishing but think about the book. I picked The Nanny
Dairies looking for a good, light read.
In a way it was, and in another way, it wasn't.
I became a fan of The Nanny Diaries through the movie.
Scarlett Johansson played this gorgeous yet down to earth character and I was
aboslutly applauding during her speech to the teddy/nanny cam. And of course,
when I like a movie based off a work of fiction I must go out and find that
work of fiction.
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus do a very good job her of
examining human behavior and putting it to play in a story. The characters
range from witty to cold, and all seem homespun in such a way that they are
some combination of believable and unbelievable. The story itself is great,
there were so many times I was angry, and so many times I wished I could have
jumped to Nanny's defense. But I understood her character. I understood why she
saw it through. And I really think that's what was so wonderful about this, how
it connect you to a character. And then, the closing monologue to the nanny cam
is brilliant, wonderfully written. It takes all the things Nanny has learned
and understood and puts it in this little neat package.
I will say however, this isn't a book for the detail hungry
and description frenzied readers. It's not eloquently written, but still good.
It's written simply, in a way that pulls you in and makes you want to read more
without rattling your brain too much.
Fin.
-Keshia
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