Jeez, when will this talentless party crasher stop leveraging off of her two minute long failed teaching stint at Dalton? Your 15 minutes are up Anisha and your starting to look a little long in the tooth.  

here's a pretty spot on review on Lakhanis claim to fame, the leverage she uses to crash parties and hang out with rich people Mildred (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Schooled (Hardcover) I was in Anisha Lakhani's 7th grade English class several years ago; I was a nerdy, awkward bookworm who hung out with the other intellectual, uncool kids. We did our own homework, we were not all white, we certainly were not all wealthy, and we were basically ignored while Mrs. Lakhani chatted with the "A-Group" (we didn't call them popular, because no one really liked them) about clothes and makeup. The portrayal of every child in this book (with the exception of one who is from Westchester) as a bratty, rich "cruiser" is offensive and smacks of hypocrisy. There definitely were a few bad eggs, the types who did have bar and bat mitzvahs at the Pierre, and it was at those parties that you could always spot Anisha Lakhani, hobnobbing with the parents she supposedly hates so much. The fact that Mrs. Lakhani herself is one of the fashion obsessed social climbers she attempts to skewer in "Schooled" may be what keeps her protagonist, Anna Taggert, so one-dimensional and unsympathetic. She makes constant justifications for her own repellant behavior, but is judgmental of others. She claims to have been a good girl who "had never done a drug in my life" and knows nothing about fashion or labels, but recounts drunken nights as a freshman in Delta Gamma at Columbia. Which is about as believable as Miley Cyrus having been a relevant part of pop culture in the year 2005, when the book is set, and her only credits were two lines in Big Fish and one episode of her father's sitcom. But over all, I found the quality of the writing to be the worst thing about this book -- yes, even worse than the cultural anachronisms, the lack of character exposition, and how downright obnoxious the thing is. I spent $23.95 on what reads like a first draft. Lakhani's style has been described a few times as "breezy". Well, OK, if breezy means that there are words missing from sentences, glaring grammar errors, and numerous typos littering the pages. The most descriptive words she uses are brand names, which results in sentences about as sophisticated as "The Chanel Cat sat on the Marni Mat". I now have serious retrospective concerns about the quality of my middle school education. I can't recommend a novel that even a copy editor couldn't bring him- or herself to read. "Schooled" is not funny, it's not well-written, and the only insight it offers is a peek into the mind of a shallow, and apparently scheming, socialite...