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The Boyfriend List 15 Guys 11 Shrink Appointments 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me Ruby Oliver Ruby Oliver Quartet E Lockhart Books

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Oliver is having panic attacks. When her therapist ask her to make a "boyfriend list" to help Ruby get to the root of her problems, she just might learn something about herself, her communication patterns and the whole debacle that caused her to lose all her friends.
THE BOYFRIEND LIST is a delightful story of an average girl navigating the difficult waters of high school, friends and boys. Ruby has a unique, unintentionally humorous voice. Like any teenager, she sometimes acts without thinking and thinks without acting. Sometimes she makes thoughtless decisions, sometimes she's too self-absorbed. She's easy to root for, even when I cringed at her behavior. Lockhart had a unique way if capturing teenage angst in a way that appeals to both teens and adults. I can't wait to read the next book in the series.


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The Boyfriend List 15 Guys 11 Shrink Appointments 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me Ruby Oliver Ruby Oliver Quartet E Lockhart Books Reviews

I mostly enjoyed this book, except for a few huge issues.

First is the footnotes. I freaking hate footnotes. Especially when you're reading an e-book. They're not cute or funny or interesting and it's really darn annoying to click back and forth between pages (the footnotes show up at the end of each chapter in the e-book, don't know how they are formatted in the paper version). They were so damn distracting and difficult to read. BOO on the footnotes.

Second, I hated Ruby's friends. Ruby's best friend since kindergarten steals her boyfriend (that she had been dating for 6 months). None of their mutual friends seem to have a problem with this. But then Ruby kisses him and she suddenly becomes a leper? Everyone is pissed at her for kissing Kim's boyfriend... but he was Ruby's boyfriend just days earlier? Kim started dating him like 2-3 days after he dumped Ruby. That's a HUGE friend no-no. Why don't Cricket and Nora care about that? Because I sure as hell would. Ruby doesn't do anything mean to Kim after Kim steals Jackson... but when Ruby kisses Jackson, Kim publicly humiliates Ruby with the xerox copy of the boyfriend list and turns her into the laughingstock of the entire school. Her "friends" all side with Kim. Great people!

Third, I hated the ending. There was no resolution! I didn't want Ruby and Kim to make up and everyone be happy, but I wanted SOMETHING to happen. Basically the end is Ruby standing around thinking about how her ex best friend and ex boyfriend are still together and her ex friends still don't talk to her (ok, she had ONE conversation with Nora... but I would be really angry at Nora for ignoring me and going along with Kim's nasty treatment).

I don't know. I was expecting something more to happen in the end. I realize there are more books in the series, but it's not like it's a cliffhanger ending or anything. The entire book is Ruby talking about all the bad things that happened to her and then the book ends.
This was a seriously fun book, just like I thought it would be! I was first drawn in by the cute cover and the interesting title and I'm so glad I decided to read it as it certainly did let me down. I was expecting something along the lines of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (which I loved) and while it definitely reminded me of those books, this felt more mature and less silly.

Ruby is a really awesome character and I loved getting to know her- which really do get to do as she spills her heart out in this book. She's had a crazy time lately and made lots of mistakes. She's been having some panic attacks so her parents refer her to a therapist who helps her work through what went wrong. I loved that Ruby tackled it head on but with humour. She never takes life too seriously and is fun and witty throughout the whole book.

Ruby's a strong character and pretty easy to empathise with me. What I loved most was how her character grew and matured as the book went on. She didn't keep making the same mistakes again and again and doing nothing about them. Instead she talked about them and took a step back to see how she could make it better. She's really sweet and her stories are hilarious. And I ended up highlighting a lot of her parents' sentences... they were certainly an interesting pair.

I can't wait to get my hands on the next book! If you're looking for a fun and easy book that still has some depth to it, I would recommend checking this one out!
I read this book years ago, and now that my daughter is a pre-teen, I thought it would be perfect for her. On the site, it's got the white cover with the ceramic frog, but the actual book cover I got was different, it had a picture of a girl on it. It's a clever cover, but I was surprised to see it instead of the frog.

Anyhow, the book is awesome, it demonstrates how different types of boy/girl relationships, that there is more than one way to care for a boy. I had read it to review for a book report, and I think it was one of the best reads I've had in a long while. I would reccommend it for anyone, but mainly girls 10 and up, depending on their reading skills and interest.
I really related to Ruby Oliver, the narrator. She reminds me of me in high school. She doesn't always do the right thing, though she does always try to, it's just that her emotions and young age get in the way. Very fun read.

One thing I would recommend getting a physical copy of the book as the doesn't have a great system for viewing footnotes, and the footnotes add a great deal of humor to the story.
Overall, I thought that this book was good. It began a little bit slow in the beginning and it was confusing to remember all the characters in the story! I thought that it was also interesting and it did a great job of making it realistic to teenage girls life during high school. I also liked at certain points when the story would stop and the author would interrupt her thoughts which I thought was really cool. This made it feel like we were actually in the mind of the main character Ruby Oliver.
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Oliver is having panic attacks. When her therapist ask her to make a "boyfriend list" to help Ruby get to the root of her problems, she just might learn something about herself, her communication patterns and the whole debacle that caused her to lose all her friends.
THE BOYFRIEND LIST is a delightful story of an average girl navigating the difficult waters of high school, friends and boys. Ruby has a unique, unintentionally humorous voice. Like any teenager, she sometimes acts without thinking and thinks without acting. Sometimes she makes thoughtless decisions, sometimes she's too self-absorbed. She's easy to root for, even when I cringed at her behavior. Lockhart had a unique way if capturing teenage angst in a way that appeals to both teens and adults. I can't wait to read the next book in the series.