Anonymous
08/04/2024 15:36
Subject: Re:Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
And? ^^^
Strangely there is minimal biographical information about Emma Sasaki and no author’s webpage that I could find. It’s curious. Almost like she doesn’t want anyone to know who she is.
Strangely there is minimal biographical information about Emma Sasaki and no author’s webpage that I could find. It’s curious. Almost like she doesn’t want anyone to know who she is.
Anonymous
08/04/2024 13:28
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does anyone actually know her here? Like in real life.
Unfortunately, yes.
Same here.
Anonymous
08/04/2024 12:54
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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!
Hello Author! We know it's you.
Who else would think of “insecurities” to exploit? WTH do I have to be insecure about vis-a-vis her book? That someone will make Wesley White Again? By the way was that a purposefully made up plot point precisely because Sidwell is majority non-white? If so, that’s really underhanded and despicable
Anonymous
08/04/2024 12:50
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
My $ is on that she always planned her coming out and portraying herself a victim of “dcparentzone” knowing full well that people would react in some way to a book of local interest. I don’t think she was ready to be told what they genuinely thought about her typo-laden novella and strangely persistent personal grudge.
I think she thought the non-existent racists would come crawling out of Sidwell instead of the grammar police. I however don’t think that will stop her from coming out like Martha from Baby Reindeer to cry victim!
I think she thought the non-existent racists would come crawling out of Sidwell instead of the grammar police. I however don’t think that will stop her from coming out like Martha from Baby Reindeer to cry victim!
Anonymous
08/04/2024 12:41
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Husband, grandparents and the kids seem very nice. It’s hard to reconcile the author with the schadenfreude and ill-will that drips from the pages towards her old school and people she frankly barely knows there. I guess it goes to show you never really know someone
Anonymous
08/04/2024 12:33
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone actually know her here? Like in real life.
Unfortunately, yes.
Anonymous
08/04/2024 12:30
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:“I realized that the last time I felt this type of anger and embarrassment was when I was in high school at Sidwell Friends”
Funny, she (presumably) reported her own medium piece about a Lululemon racist incident that wasn’t
We read it for fun (Asian family) and no one thought a frazzled salesperson repeating distancing rules sounded racist. There’s racism for sure and some behaved inexcusably during Covid but this ain’t it
Yet somehow the “professorial lecturer and writer” as it’s signed by her, worked her old school into it. Mind boggles.
To be fair, the incident in Lululemon did in fact sound racist and I have plenty of Chinese-American friends who had similar incidents occur throughout the country, even in California with a high Asian population.
To be fair what about it sounded racist to you other than Lululemon? And why did she go to Lululemon since it’s racist? And how did Sidwell get dragged into this too?!
What a weirdo
You didn't read the article did you? The store was treating an Asian customer differently than caucasian customers. That is racist, sweetheart.
Things that never happened for $400
I read the article and in fact downloaded a copy of it before she hastily worked to take it down. It was a massive stretch to begin with into which she additionally worked in her unexplained “anger” and “embarrassment” at Sidwell 35 years prior or whatever.
You’ve had several Asians comment on it being nonsensical if you won’t take my word on it. You sound as condescending as the author so I assume you’re her. Maybe go make six calls to the management and try to get everyone who disagrees fired again
Anonymous
08/04/2024 10:22
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Does anyone actually know her here? Like in real life.
Anonymous
08/04/2024 10:19
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote: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!
Hello Author! We know it's you.
Anonymous
08/04/2024 10:17
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:“I realized that the last time I felt this type of anger and embarrassment was when I was in high school at Sidwell Friends”
Funny, she (presumably) reported her own medium piece about a Lululemon racist incident that wasn’t
We read it for fun (Asian family) and no one thought a frazzled salesperson repeating distancing rules sounded racist. There’s racism for sure and some behaved inexcusably during Covid but this ain’t it
Yet somehow the “professorial lecturer and writer” as it’s signed by her, worked her old school into it. Mind boggles.
To be fair, the incident in Lululemon did in fact sound racist and I have plenty of Chinese-American friends who had similar incidents occur throughout the country, even in California with a high Asian population.
To be fair what about it sounded racist to you other than Lululemon? And why did she go to Lululemon since it’s racist? And how did Sidwell get dragged into this too?!
What a weirdo
You didn't read the article did you? The store was treating an Asian customer differently than caucasian customers. That is racist, sweetheart.
Anonymous
08/04/2024 10:02
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
Anonymous wrote:4 words:
really bad writing with fake and paid for reviews on Amazon and goodreads (it’s really easy to tell the real ones like from a Japanese-American woman who confirms that it’s not only the English parts that are full of typos and style and grammar errors)
if wasting a few bucks on a thinskinned selfreferential battleaxe with an inferiority complex and a 30-year grudge isn’t your thing, caveat emptor
I see what you did there. 😂
Anonymous
08/04/2024 07:36
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
This thread has 35,000 views because everyone knows the author is trolling it day and night
Anonymous
08/04/2024 05:20
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
4 words:
really bad writing with fake and paid for reviews on Amazon and goodreads (it’s really easy to tell the real ones like from a Japanese-American woman who confirms that it’s not only the English parts that are full of typos and style and grammar errors)
if wasting a few bucks on a thinskinned selfreferential battleaxe with an inferiority complex and a 30-year grudge isn’t your thing, caveat emptor
really bad writing with fake and paid for reviews on Amazon and goodreads (it’s really easy to tell the real ones like from a Japanese-American woman who confirms that it’s not only the English parts that are full of typos and style and grammar errors)
if wasting a few bucks on a thinskinned selfreferential battleaxe with an inferiority complex and a 30-year grudge isn’t your thing, caveat emptor
Anonymous
08/03/2024 12:08
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
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
Well said.
Anonymous
08/03/2024 04:51
Subject: Novel based on Sidwell coming out in summer
20 years as an adjunct is unheard of outside of the real housewives of academia