Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer

[Anonymous]

So many pages about this terrible book that no one has bought. If the author is on DCUM, she’s a pro at exploiting the insecurities of the SFS parents who post here all the time and apparently, have sent her money.


Keep it coming, people!

[Anonymous]

According to the book sales calculator, she’s selling 1-8 books per month.

People have always bought terrible books of local interest. I’d worry less about her making a few thousand at most and more about what this book says about her.

But even that is less worrying than admitting to harboring “anger and embarrassment” about Sidwell for decades. Publishing a book laden with typos, harassing organizations to remove her articles and details about her, after leaving the crumb trail herself are fascinating to a psychologist I must admit

[Anonymous]

My money is on a Munchausen or a Baby Reindeer scenario. She’s not exactly beloved at the “equally exclusive” Payet

Meanwhile at Wesley: crickets (too busy counting $160 million in donations including from a thriving Asian community)

[Anonymous]

I will say something positive. I enjoyed the mother (grandmother) character. It was the only character that was more than two-dimensional even if (disturbingly) because the protagonist (Sucksaki’s alter ego) clearly resents her mother and behaving like a terrible brat throughout. The grandmother and to the lesser extent the husband are the saving graces of the haphazard character jumble that’s so poorly developed so as to not be able to make up for the lack of an actual plotline

Meanwhile IRL, it seems the author has been bankrolled by her parents and then her husband her entire life, allowing her the privilege to dump on the school that made her and the otherwise very honorable adjunct position which puts many non-housewife adjuncts in poverty

In the end, I felt kind of dirty after I put the book down. I felt like I participated in a particularly nasty gossip session where a tipsy friend spews hate on everyone from her mother to her coworkers to her child and you can’t wait to leave and suffer second hand embarrassment. It reminded me of that woman who saw something that wasn’t there on a plane and had a meltdown grounding everyone in the process

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will say something positive. I enjoyed the mother (grandmother) character. It was the only character that was more than two-dimensional even if (disturbingly) because the protagonist (Sucksaki’s alter ego) clearly resents her mother and behaving like a terrible brat throughout. The grandmother and to the lesser extent the husband are the saving graces of the haphazard character jumble that’s so poorly developed so as to not be able to make up for the lack of an actual plotline

Meanwhile IRL, it seems the author has been bankrolled by her parents and then her husband her entire life, allowing her the privilege to dump on the school that made her and the otherwise very honorable adjunct position which puts many non-housewife adjuncts in poverty

In the end, I felt kind of dirty after I put the book down. I felt like I participated in a particularly nasty gossip session where a tipsy friend spews hate on everyone from her mother to her coworkers to her child and you can’t wait to leave and suffer second hand embarrassment. It reminded me of that woman who saw something that wasn’t there on a plane and had a meltdown grounding everyone in the process

You mean like the gossip session you are in right now? That sort of nasty parent gossip session?

[Anonymous]

Oh, Martha.

[Anonymous]

What’s untrue in my post? To my knowledge, it would seem these are the facts and the rest are my opinion.

I will leave being nasty “angry and embarrassed” to the professorial lecturer and writer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s untrue in my post? To my knowledge, it would seem these are the facts and the rest are my opinion.

I will leave being nasty “angry and embarrassed” to the professorial lecturer and writer

A Sidwell parent being bankrolled by their parents (kids’ grandparents)?

Holy legacy and generational wealth, Batman!

[Anonymous]

Also the husband.

Let me see if I can write a review imitating her writing voice:

The professorial lecturer and writer’s one article and novel are a flatulent bloviation which threatens collateral damage once the warm bubble of self-perceived accomplishment inevitably bursts. In her attempt to manufacture outrage out of thin air, she’s in three words: a Karen. But a Karen smug in the knowledge that she could never be called one even after admitting to making at least 6 calls to the management.

[Anonymous]

How is she teaching a mandatory government course at AU without a PhD?

[Anonymous]

Did Michael LaRosa refuse to be included in the Acknowledgments?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is she teaching a mandatory government course at AU without a PhD?

She's an adjunct lecturer. The requirements for that may not be as stringent.

[Anonymous]

Author is well into her 50s so would have been at Sidwell in the 1980s. That’s a long time to hold a grudge and get a spellchecking software

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is she teaching a mandatory government course at AU without a PhD?

She has a PhD from Penn.

[Anonymous]

I call bull. She’s trying to pull Wagatha by placing bogus information about herself online