#housemaid

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In a domestic setting showing full respect to your employer is paramount, as a maid your job is to fulfil their needs and make their life easier and part of that will involve at meal times waiting quietly but attentively ready to serve if required.  

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Book Review: The housemaid is Watching

The Housemaid is Watching- by Freida McFadden

This review will be spoiler free and is divided into sections of overall storytelling, my thoughts, and do I recommend it?

Storytelling

The book starts off with a timeskip of 12 years, the protagonist Millie is now a mother of two kids and she moves into her dream home which was priced suspiciously low. Everything seems to be going great for her, a loving husband, beautiful children and a 'normal life' which she longed for all her life. The neighbours however, are far from normal. A flashy, overly-flirty real estate agent and an obnoxious old woman who keeps her son on a leash and has a peeping habit. Millie gets caught up in their shenanigans when the entire story takes a dark turn and someone is murdered and the culprit might be too close to home.

My thoughts

Now I know the description sounds promising but trust me, the book was not good. The previous two books of the series were great, and slightly worse respectively but this one, geez. I will not miss the first three quarters of the book and the last quarter is something I want to forget about. 

It starts off with the daily activities of Millie's family making choco-chip pancakes and the kids missing school. Fine. It was then led by more choco-chip pancakes and baseball practice. Then starts the unnecessary drama about infidelity and insecurity. WHY. Whatever happened to gripping plots and suspense. 

Now I will give credit where it's due, the saving grace was the murder angle and the investigation which I found interesting. However it does not last very long as the revelation is just bleh. Not even bad but infact lame. I had really high hopes from this book as Freida Mcfadden has shown excellent work with the previous two books but this one does not live upto the expectations. 

Do I recommend it?

No, I know it must be very tempting to pick this up especially after the cliffhanger of the previous one but there's nothing about this book which makes me want to recommend it. Read my next blog on review of  "The Silent Patient".

PS: I would suggest the readers to not engage in hate towards the authors, this is just a piece of fiction and should not harbor any negativity for real people.

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[petramaid]

I think most people would be a surprised to learn how many biologically born males work in the hospitality/domestic industry as maids.

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Kim Ki-young

- The Housemaid

1960

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On May 15th 1857 Williamina Fleming was born in Dundee.

Born as Williamina Paton Stevens, Dundee to a reasonably affluent family: her father ran a gilding and picture framing business. Sadly he died when she was just 7 and she was sent away to a good local school until she was 14.

She worked for a while as a student teacher in Dundee, eventually marrying James Fleming, a local accountant. Within a year they emigrated to Boston USA. Things quickly began to go wrong starting with him leaving her without warning. Shortly after she discovered she was pregnant. She was forced to find employment and secured a job as a maid – the choice of employer was to change her life.

Professor Pickering was a demanding employer and as the story goes, he became increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of the work from his male employees- to the extent that he claimed- ‘even my maid could do a better job’. It appears he really did believe this as he initially employed Williamina as an administrative assistant and then, impressed by her work, moved her on to analysing astronomical data- at which she excelled.

By her mid-twenties Williamina was one of a number of women Pickering employed to work at his observatory. They became known as the Harvard Computer – or Human Computers. Pickering taught the women to analyse spectral data and encouraged them to learn and study.

Williamina went on to manage this group and develop, alongside Pickering, a new star classification system, known as the Pickering-Fleming System. She classified over 10,000 stars; their work being published in 1890 when she was 33 years old.

She worked tirelessly, examining over 200,000 photographic plates and in the course of her work discovered many novae (including Pickering’s Triangle- see my article on this beautiful object), she analysed many variable stars, discovered tens of unusual Wolf-Rayet stars and worked on the discovery of double stars. By 1889 she was a curator at the Observatory, the first woman to hold such a post. However, much of her early work was published under Pickering’s name- it was only later that her name appeared as co-author.

Williamina hired many women over her time running the group, with a number going on to become great astronomers themselves.

Despite her position and status, Williamina received the same salary as that of a junior male new-starter. This was a source of great frustration and hardship as she tried to give her son a good education.

Williamina was awarded honorary membership of the Royal Astronomical Society in London and received numerous awards and recognition throughout her career.

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