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had to read this book at school in year, I have one word for it: BORING! Don't waste your time on it, Robin Klein has written a great book about the sudden changes in an ordinary teenage life, Personally, I found this book really boring halfway through, although it had a wonderful ending, The book was a bit predictable and it's easy to tell what's coming next, I don't really think the book was completely about the annoying habit of making lists that just came up in the beginning of the story but doesn't really get dwelled on much.
The storyline was good though and Robin Klein finished it with a fantastic decision of the main character which completely changes everything.
While living with her oldfashioned greataunts in a small Australian town, twelveyearold Sarah makes an unlikely friend, learns something about the amazing Piriel Starr, and breaks the habit of a lifetime.
I love this book, its a young adult book, It is about a girl who is twelve years old trying to decide who she is and where she belongs Not as good as I'd expected from Robin Klein.
One to read once, give away, and forget all about, Well, I wasn't gobsmacked, but it was a pleasant enough read, and also lovely to relive my childhood love for Robin Klein and her characters.
Ms Klein has a real flair for human interaction and for creating a beautiful sense of home in her writing.
It is easy to quickly become fond of her characters, There is something delightfully eccentric and Australian about her writing, Yes, the plot was a bit predictable, but I don't feel like being a hard marker about that, because I think as a kid I would have loved that sense of security, where everything works out in the end.
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really enjoyed revisiting My favourite childhood author, and I will always be grateful to her because she was probably one of the first writers I read who focused on character development, instead of having very twodimensional characters enacting the plot.


It probably wasn't one of her best, in my opinion, but perhaps that is because I read it as an adult who is used to reading more 'sophisticated' books.
Even so, I enjoyed reading it,.I had to study this in year eight, It was so poorly favoured, that the school's english department had to remove it from the booklist the following years! Yes, boring very VERY boring! This book can get really boring but just keep going coz at the end it is actually pretty good It's nice to see a character go from uptight young girl to a more mellowed out person.
Sarah is not the greatest character, but the supporting characters such as her aunts and neighbours are eccentric but believably so and provide comic relief as well as being interesting counterpoints for Sarah as she struggles to figure out her place in her father's life and new relationship.
And yes, there are many lists, the listmaker was entertaining and was confusing in some aspectects but was very sweet and had a charming story i have to say that i did from the begining think that piriel was a bit bonkers but i enjoyed the begining the middle and the end 'The Listmaker' follows the story of a young girl growing up in Australia and having to choose between two lives.
One, going to a rich boarding school and at some point living in a apartment with her father and her new stepmother.
Or, choice two is living in a small town with her two elderly GreatAunts,

I found this book very enjoyable, It interested me for the eight hours I was waiting for my plane, and I truly did enjoy it.


It is mostly a character study, Sarah Radcliffe begins the book as a spoilt, whiney, teacher's pet, Throughout the book she mellows and that is really nice to read, She was a fairly good narrator and I did like how each chapter started with a list.


I really liked how well thought out and multidimentional the characters were, I liked the Aunts and Corrie's characters best,

Sometimes, however, I found Sarah to be too annoying and sometimes I did hate her a bit.
I just wished the plot hadn't dragged as much or I would've hated her less,

The writing ws very easily accessable, it was pleasantly written and a quick read and it made me want to pick up another Robin Klein! Reread.
I enjoyed this book and suspect that in part it was because I could really identify with some of the quirks of the 'heroine' Sarah.
I liked the way that Klein explored the challenges Sarah faces as a teenager dealing with the 'ideal' image of home and family and her own 'less than ideal' life spent between boarding school, eccentric aunts and a 'busy' father.
The key to the story is in Sarah's evolving understanding of the adults in her life and the way that she chooses to interpret their behaviours and actions.
The book is both funny and sad, but ultimately a satisfying read, This book definetely wasnt amazing, but it had been waiting on my to be read book pile for long enough and i had never been able to get past the first few pages so I decided to give the Listmaker another go.
I found the book boring and very predictable, The plot wasnt interesting enough, it followsyear old Sarah who lives with her two old and excentric aunts in a small cottage.
She is one of the most unpopular girls at her school but she believes all this will change when she leaves the two people who have cared and loved her her whole life and move in with her Dads new wife, rich Piriel Starr in their amazing new city appartment.
I found Sarahs character so annoying, she was so ungrateful for her two aunts, and didnt have any unique personality apart from wanting to be popular at school.
The only good things about this book were : the storyline, I liked how each chapter started with a list, showing Sarahs habit of listmaking, and the ending as it really brought out the good in Sarah.
The Listmaker takes me back to my childhood, I think it's technically defined as middlegrade, It is the story of ayearold girl, Sarah, living with her two greataunts over the summer.
She is looking forward to the start of the school term, when she will move into a shiny new city apartment with her father and his shiny new willbe wife, Piriel Starr.
Of course, this move will transform her from an unpopular, neurotic child to a sophisticated young woman who can't move for all the invitations flying at her.
Or so she hopes.

In reality this is a good journey story as Sarah comes to learn about what really matters in life, and who cares for her properly.


Rereading this book as an adult, and knowing what I know now, it struck me that Sarah has some Aspergery qualities.
Similar to Don Tillman in The Rosie Project, she doesn't always understand what people mean and the effect that her words have, but we can see things only from her unreliable narrator perspective.
This book was one of the worst Ive ever read, It was so boring and predictable, The writing style was not bad but the story itself went no where and did nothing,
While I hated it I understand some people have different tastes than me so may enjoy its writing style.
I think I read this in high school confused It couldn't have been very good because I'd remember it.
This is a great book from my childhood, I love the writing. I quite enjoyed this book but I was surprised about how quickly we've adapted technology into our lives.
For example, pay phones are used and there's no talk of emails, the internet, . . not a thing! The young girl does receive a computer but mainly plays games and uses it as a word processor.
The book was published inand just goes to show you how far we've come,

I enjoyed the characters in the this book, especially the old aunts and I was a little envious of their charming cottage.
I think this is a book many children will enjoy reading as it deals with blended families, peer pressure and odd friendships.
Wow this takes me back!

Could this be where my list obsession comes from Definitly one of my favourite books of all time.
A touching, poingant firstperson account of a young girls struggle for acceptance in her father's new relationship.
This has been in a childhood "do I still want this around" pile for cough years, By the time I reread it I didn't remember anything about it and I'd gotten it confused with another book where the stepmother is actually warm and lovely, which clearly was an error.


Unsurprisingly, I found Sarah a bit insufferable but also she's young and clearly has an anxiety disorder and above all it's natural she'd want her parents to like, if not love her but it's also hard to swallow that she should have such pure disdain for the only loving people in her life for almost the entire book.
A more gradual thawing would have helped, but it took, what,of the way and it just felt too long to get to where we all knew we were going.


That said, it was interesting from a narrative perspective to see how the author framed Sarah and her responses, what the story said and what it meant, and it would be interesting to discuss with a class.
But it's just so much of the same thing, Mostly the lying I would understand wellmeaning earnestness, "I cleaned our room so we won't get in trouble, why are you mad at me" thing but the outright lies were a straw too far.
Sounds like a really good book, Can't wait to read it!! I actually never finished this, Got up to chapterand my mind could not keep going from the incredibly boring, predictable and annoying everything in this book.
And I actually wrote an essay about it in yrThis was a cute read, Winner of the Dromkeen Medal, Robin Klein was bornFebruaryin Kempsey, New South Wales into a family of nine children, Leaving school at age, Klein worked several jobs before becoming established as a writer, having her first story published at age.
She would go on to write thanbooks, including Hating Alison Ashley adapted into a feature film starring Delta Goodrem in, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left adapted into a television series for the Seven Network in, and Came Back to Show You I Could Fly adapted into a film directed by Richard Lowenstein in.
Kleins books are hugely celebrated, having won the CBCA Childrens Book of the Year Award in both the Younger Readers and the Older Rea Winner of the Dromkeen Medal.
Robin Klein was bornFebruaryin Kempsey, New South Wales into a family of nine children, Leaving school at age, Klein worked several jobs before becoming established as a writer, having her first story published at age.
She would go on to write thanbooks, including Hating Alison Ashley adapted into a feature film starring Delta Goodrem in, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left adapted into a television series for the Seven Network in, and Came Back to Show You I Could Fly adapted into a film directed by Richard Lowenstein in.
Kleins books are hugely celebrated, having won the CBCA Childrens Book of the Year Award in both the Younger Readers and the Older Readers categories, as well as a Human Rights Award for Literature infor Came Back to Show You I Could Fly.
Klein is widely considered one of Australias most prolific and beloved YA authors, sitelink.