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The Boyfriend List [Audiobook] [Unabridged] (Audio CD)

by E. Lockhart (Author), Mandy Siegfried (Reader)
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Siegfried makes a believable 15-year-old narrator as she slips into the role of Ruby Oliver, a spirited girl struggling with identity and self-esteem after suffering the kind of social crisis that sets high schoolers reeling. Ruby's boyfriend of six months, Jackson, has dumped her in favor of her best friend, Kim. Ruby's resulting panic attacks land her in the office of a shrink, Dr. Z, and part of her therapy involves writing a complete list of the boys with whom she's ever had a crush, kiss, relationship or "little any-kind-of-anything." As listeners learn about each entry on the boyfriend list (including lots of authentic-sounding dialogue and asides, which appear in the book as footnotes to the list), they hear the Jackson drama and every painful, truthful detail about the clique land mines Ruby must maneuver when it comes to her former friends, to whom she's now a "leper." Via Siegfried's sharp delivery and expert teen inflection, one can almost envision the eye-rolling and other gestures that might accompany Ruby's smart-aleck, I can't-believe-this-humiliating-thing-is-happening-to-me attitude. Ages 12-up. (Mar.)
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Grade 7 Up-E. Lockheart's sometimes sad, sometimes funny, but very realistic coming-of-age novel (Delacorte, 2005) is read by Mandy Siegfried. Fifteen-year-old Ruby (Roo) Oliver's parents realize she needs to see a psychiatrist when she starts to have frightening panic attacks. The story unfolds as Ruby tells Dr. Z of being jilted by her boyfriend and called names by her former girlfriends. Her assignment for the doctor, to make a list of all the boys in her life, ends up being copied and distributed throughout her school. Through the course of her sessions, Ruby learns many things about friendships and makes friends with herself. Siegfried reads in a clear, fast, excited voice. The difficult emotions of a teen going through a very challenging time in her life are reflected via changes in her voice, speed, and tone. She provides a wonderful rendition of a teen repeating her parents' comments with appropriate frustration and sarcasm. Various childish teasing songs and taunts are repeated faithfully. Dialogue and sexual situations are presented frankly. Sure to be popular with teens.-Claudia Moore, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Teens Read Too, Aug 24 2007
This review is from: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver (Hardcover)
The additional title of THE BOYFRIEND LIST is (15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs and me, Ruby Oliver). It's very enlightening, entertaining, and oh-so-paramount to the book. This is the life and times of nearly sixteen-year-old Ruby Oliver, former girlfriend of Jackson, former best friend of Kim, former semi-popular sophomore high school girl. Now just a girl with panic attacks, a xerox copied "Boyfriend List" circulating through school, and a shrink named Doctor Z.

Ruby's life used to be pretty normal, until her boyfriend broke up with her to date her best friend. Then the panic attacks started--shortness of breath, a tightening sensation in the chest, dizziness and nausea--that had her parents shipping her off to a psychiatrist to work out her "issues." Those issues would mainly be, in chronological order:

1) Adam
2) Finn
3) Hutch
4) Gideon
5) Ben
6) Tommy
7) Chase
8) Sky
9) Michael
10) Angelo
11) Shiv
12) Billy
13) Jackson
14) Noel
15) Cabbie

It might sound, in retrospect, like a lot of guys in a short period of time. But Ruby's made a list of every boy who has ever meant something to her, and these are the fifteen guys that make up the list. In THE BOYFRIEND LIST, we learn about all the guys in Ruby's life, from Adam to Cabbie and everyone in between--and the result is a laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story that is well worth reading.

I can't wait for the release of THE BOY BOOK: A STUDY OF HABITS AND BEHAVIORS, PLUS TECHNIQUES FOR TAMING THEM to be released in September 2006. Since THE BOY BOOK was actually the creation of Ruby Oliver and her friends in THE BOYFRIEND LIST, it should be quite an adventure!

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
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