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Natalie Beach–“I Was Caroline Calloway” (The Cut, September 10, 2019)

Posted in Addiction, Caroline Calloway, Language, Liars, Natalie Beach, Nostalgia, Social Media, The Cut, Word usage on December 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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[READ: December 30, 2023] “I Was Caroline Calloway”

Yesterday I read the book Scammer by Caroline Calloway.  It was about Caroline Calloway and Natalie Beach two women who worked together to write a book that never got written (see yesterday’s post for a more sophisticated take on Scammer).

Caroline and Natalie had a feud and Natalie wrote this tell-most in The Cut.

Caroline addressed most of the issues that Natalie raised in Scammer.  But I figured I’d read this too.

Natalie is a good writer, although I feel that Caroline is better.

Natalie’s version of events is certainly darker–she obviously has more details about events that happened to her when Caroline wasn’t around.  She also knows a lot about what happened while Caroline was in an Adderall stupor. (more…)

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Caroline Calloway–Scammer (2023)

Posted in Addiction, Caroline Calloway, Language, Liars, Natalie Beach, Nostalgia, Social Media, The Cut, Word usage on December 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »

SOUNDTRACK: hiatus

[READ: December 29, 2023] Scammer

We get a surprisingly large number of self-published books at my library.  Most of them I don’t look at, but some look interesting enough to flip through.

This one was packaged with a ribbon around in (and a bookmark), and I loved the text on the back of the book.

“Is Caroline Calloway a scammer?  No.” — The New York Times.

Suffice it to say I had never heard of Caroline Calloway and had no idea what she was scamming, but there was something about this book that made me want to read it.

The book sums up the scamming.  In fact, it is a memoir (of sorts) about her time as a scammer.  She calls this a daybook–the kind of book you could read in a day–although it took me a few days.

The book is set up in 67 vignettes.  And I found the narrator to be quite engaging.  She talks about her family and upbringing a bit, but for the most part she gets right to the scamming.

She always wanted to go to Cambridge University.  She was rejected twice and then lied (a bit) on her transcript to get in on the third try.  She also found an editor (through trickery) and secured a book deal although she had no intention of writing the book.  When she blew through the $100,000 advance and now had to pay it back, she started an OnlyFans account, did some topless photos and made the money back in a few months. (more…)

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