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[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

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