It was cute but totally silly and even more out there. Unless you just loved Nan you can skip this one ( )

Thank God for a follow up. I've always worried about Grayer X. I knew that Nanny (Nan-neh!) would land on her feet, but Grayer...I always wondered what would happen to him.

If you liked "The Nanny Diaries" I do believe you will like this sequel (the ladies are even talking trilogy!!) We find Nanny's socialite nemesies struggling against the economy - what do you mean I can't have my Prada and my driver too? - and Nanny struggling with possible motherhood.

I felt like the book brought up a lot of things I've seen in my own community over the last couple of years: Mothers in their Porsche SUVs with the kids tucked in back, head phones on watching Sponge Bob on the SUV's DVD system - totally unattached to their kids, unplugged as I heard someone mention the other day (a teacher); kids getting rowdier and rowdier with little to no personal responsibility; and an overall sense of entitlement.

I think Emma and Nicola's books are really good commentaries on current society. If you haven't read "Citizen Girl," you really must. Especially if you're a young woman struggling to figure out what to do with your life in our crappy economy. Again, Emma and Nicola just nail the feelings and struggles of women everywhere.

In Nanny Returns Nanny ponders motherhood: to be or not to be. Every one says, "oh you're so good with kids!" she finally says so what? just because i'm good with kids doesn't mean I will make a good mother. I've often heard how great I am with kids and how wonderful a mom I would make because of that. I applaud Emma and Nicola for bringing up this touchy subject. Nanny's husband travels a lot for his job and she says she doesn't want her child to grow up fatherless like so many of the kids she nannied in her day. She knows the impression that having two active parents in a child's life makes. Just because you conceived a child does not make you a parent. ( )

Narrated by Susan Bennett. Arrrghh! Nan is such an enabler and doormat. I really enjoyed "The Nanny Diaries" last decade, but perhaps my being 10 years older now, I found Nan's lack of backbone annoying. I would have called social services on the kids, high-society protocol be damned. Actually, that would have made a more interesting book: how would high society react if social services was called on one of their own? All things considered, narrator Bennett did excellent voicework, whether as snooty high society or the frustrated-at-every-turn Nan. ( )

This was one of those books you just can't put down until you get to the end. ( )

Typos & irritation -just enough to get me to stop halfway through (which I never do). The whole meek and mild main character irritates me to no end. If she gets her voice in the end, I'll never know but nothing irritates me more than a one-dimensional main character with overly made up characters around them. ( )