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The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver, #1)
by E. Lockhart
by E. Lockhart
WOOHOO!
The Boyfriend List = WIN!
I enjoyed Frankie in The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, but after reading The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver, I find that Ruby beats Frankie, hands down.
Both of them read innocent, quirky, funny and imperfect. In other words, they are both screw ups. But wait! Ruby Oliver's story has so much more going for it because as she is not perfect, her life, her story certainly weren't. The Boy Friend List in turns sweet, annoying, and HILARIOUS.
Her recounting the fifteen boys (imaginary or otherwise, real or not), her three "friends," her unconventional parents, what they were to her and the role they had in what she was feeling, was hilarious. Her mom wanted her to forget, her father to forgive, but I wanted her to kick someone's ass!
But wait!
The predicaments she found herself in (panic attacks, labels that were not at all flattering and being socially ostracized) started not because she was the victim of some meany (though she sort of was, a lot of meanys, in fact) but were exacerbated by her own in-action. And it is the fact that she is just so imperfect and funny... that I could not help but root for her.
I so badly want to start The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them! BUT I'm saving the rest of the series for when I'm desperate for a good book.
HILARIOUS!
4.5/5
The Boyfriend List = WIN!
I enjoyed Frankie in The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, but after reading The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver, I find that Ruby beats Frankie, hands down.
Both of them read innocent, quirky, funny and imperfect. In other words, they are both screw ups. But wait! Ruby Oliver's story has so much more going for it because as she is not perfect, her life, her story certainly weren't. The Boy Friend List in turns sweet, annoying, and HILARIOUS.
Her recounting the fifteen boys (imaginary or otherwise, real or not), her three "friends," her unconventional parents, what they were to her and the role they had in what she was feeling, was hilarious. Her mom wanted her to forget, her father to forgive, but I wanted her to kick someone's ass!
But wait!
The predicaments she found herself in (panic attacks, labels that were not at all flattering and being socially ostracized) started not because she was the victim of some meany (though she sort of was, a lot of meanys, in fact) but were exacerbated by her own in-action. And it is the fact that she is just so imperfect and funny... that I could not help but root for her.
I so badly want to start The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them! BUT I'm saving the rest of the series for when I'm desperate for a good book.
HILARIOUS!
4.5/5
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Jul 10, 2011 10:37pm
Got the second book from NBS and I'm still looking for the first one. Since you liked it, I might read it in advance! Haha.
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Kwesi 章英狮 wrote: "Got the second book from NBS and I'm still looking for the first one. Since you liked it, I might read it in advance! Haha.":) go Kwesi!
