Karen Quinn
Auteur van The Ivy Chronicles
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Karen Quinn has been a featured expert on school admissions on ABC's 20/20 and The View and in the New York Times, Forbes, Redbook, Woman's Day, and more. Karen is also the author of four novels: Holly Would Dream, The Ivy Chronicles, Wife in the Fast Lane, and The Sister Diaries. Visit her at toon meer Testingforkindergarten.com. toon minder
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1955-12-11
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
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The Ivy Chronicles door Karen Quinn
Ugh. This book was terrible.
Oh my gosh, is this really what New Yorkers go through to get their kids into a decent school?
A woman, Ivy, is screwed out of her job, finds her unemployed husband naked with her now ex-boss's wife and this is on Park Avenue in NY.
Ivy must cut costs and make a new life.
She does so by becoming a preschool advisor for parents, because everyone in NY knows if their child doesn't get into a top tier preschool, they won't go to an ivy league college.
A good beach read.
A woman, Ivy, is screwed out of her job, finds her unemployed husband naked with her now ex-boss's wife and this is on Park Avenue in NY.
Ivy must cut costs and make a new life.
She does so by becoming a preschool advisor for parents, because everyone in NY knows if their child doesn't get into a top tier preschool, they won't go to an ivy league college.
A good beach read.
Don't agree with every viewpoint but some interesting information.
Okay, wow, can one woman be so self-absorbed and in complete denial of what life is really like? I don't think I can say it any better than this reviewer on amazon.com: While the premise of the book was intriguing (an insider's view into the cut-throat world of the Manhattan elite), my antipathy for Ivy overroad any hopes of my giving this book a good review. She continually baffled me with her amoral stance and her ability to turn everything into a one-woman whine-fest. There was almost no one to cheer for, save some of the stereotypical "underclass" children.
She gets fired by the butthead husband of the woman who is sleeping with her husband and all she can worry about is that her psychic said she was about to get hit by a bus - metaphorically or not, she wasn't really sure.
Usually I can get a giggle out of books like this - but listening to her whine about money and then spend $1500 on a fish surgery so her daughter's fish wouldn't have it's boyancey problem.
I'm at the end of disc one now and I won't be listening to the rest. What trash. How self-absorbed and utterly useless.
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She gets fired by the butthead husband of the woman who is sleeping with her husband and all she can worry about is that her psychic said she was about to get hit by a bus - metaphorically or not, she wasn't really sure.
Usually I can get a giggle out of books like this - but listening to her whine about money and then spend $1500 on a fish surgery so her daughter's fish wouldn't have it's boyancey problem.
I'm at the end of disc one now and I won't be listening to the rest. What trash. How self-absorbed and utterly useless.
… (meer)
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- Werken
- 5
- Leden
- 802
- Populariteit
- #31,798
- Waardering
- 3.2
- Besprekingen
- 28
- ISBNs
- 31