![]() ![]() It includes funny and heartbreaking moments – also embarrassing and stupid ones. The Boyfriend List is Ruby’s journey of self-discovery whilst attending high school – a journey that only but starts with this book (as it should be, she is only 15 after all). The list is what frames their sessions and the narrative, each chapter supposedly relating to a boy in the list: supposedly because of course, the subject of this book is Ruby Oliver and her relationships with her family, her friends and yes, with the boys in her life. As a starting point, the doctor suggests a Boyfriend List – a list of boys that Ruby has dated or wanted to date, present and past, going all the way back to preschool. It is no surprise that Ruby has a few panic attacks and then prompted by her mother, starts seeing a shrink, Doctor Z. ![]() In the past 10 days 15-year- old Ruby Oliver has become a social outcast at Tape prep, lost all of her friends and her boyfriend Jackson broke up with her (and started dating her former best friend). There are few certainties in my life right now but one of them does seem to be the fact that I can completely rely on Contemporary YA to save me from the DRB. I was going through another one of those Dreaded Reader’s Block (I tried to read and couldn’t finish no less than 6 books in 5 days) when I decided to give The Boyfriend List a go. Lockhart ever since I read The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks last year, and have been slowly catching up with her back list. Why did I read this book: I have become a big fan of E. ![]()
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