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The Spell Book of Listen Taylor

Jaclyn Moriarty

Hardcover | Pages: 479 pages

Rating: 3.56 | 1604 Users | 215 Reviews

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Title	:	The Spell Book of Listen Taylor
Author	:	Jaclyn Moriarty
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 479 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2007 by Arthur A. Levine Books
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. Teen. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary

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A fairytale, a mystery, a history of hot-air ballooning, and a romance . . . A novel so brilliant, moving, zingy -- and Zingy -- that it could only have come from Jaclyn Moriarty.

The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret -- one so huge it draws the family to the garden shed for meetings every Friday night.
Into their world comes socially isolated middle grader Listen Taylor, whose father is dating a Zing. Enter Cath Murphy, a young teacher at the elementary school that Cassie Zing attends, suffering from a broken heart. How will the worlds of these two young woman connect? Only the reader can know!

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Original Title:	The Spell Book of Listen Taylor
ISBN:	0439846781 (ISBN13: 9780439846783)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.56 From 1604 Users | 215 Reviews

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Jaclyn Moriarty's writing is always charming and chipper, which makes it surprising when her characters make truly bad decisions and inflict hurt on each other - through it all, there are still so many exclamation points! I don't think this book was wholly successful as a cohesive story - the throughline of the Zing family secret is uneven, and there's not always a lot of momentum - but as usual with Jaclyn Moriarty, there were moments of brilliant emotional truth and originality and witty

Gave the story a try based on a great synopsis. Just could not follow the plot. Also, did not like the characters.

Every time I read a book from Moriarty, I wonder how she gets away with turns of phrase that are strange and delicious, or plots that fold in on themselves and wind around in a way that is unexpected but somehow works. Somehow!

When I first picked up The Spell Book of Listen Taylor by Jaclyn Moriarty, it seemed to be quite obviously YA, published as it is by the Arthur A. Levine imprint of Scholastic and featuring a 12-year-old girl who finds a book of spells. Easy-peasy!Well, no. To my initial uneasiness but then vast delight, this book quickly began soaring away from any possibility of pinning it down into a category or genre. Sure, theres a Junior High School girl named Listen, whose spells may or may not be having

There were so many good things about this book. First, I'll hit the plot: There's an overarching set of circumstances tying everyone in this book together, but the picture is big enough throughout most of it that you cannot see the threads.Consequently, the big surprise, namely, the Zing Family Secret which gets thrown around all through the beginning of the book, actually stays a secret until the author damn well wants you to see it.Second, let's look at the characters: They're all real,

The book showed promise, but didn't deliver for me, in the end. The story structure and timeline were interesting, and the interstitials on inventors was cute. I enjoyed the beautifully written and crafted emotional vignettes (junior high loneliness, 30-something crushes, married-with-kids restlessness, post-breakup's crushing desperation). I enjoyed the Sydney backdrop, and eccentric Zing family. It's just that all those didn't add up to a compelling story for me. Also, I had to check the

Updated review, 06/2012:OK I still really, really love this book. I mean, it's a little twee and cloying in places. As a stylistic choice it didn't turn me off, but I get that this is a book you either immediately love or hate. So many italics and !'s. And the characters all have personalities that, if they aren't identical, are verrry similar. BUT. This thing clicks together like clockwork. Not just the details falling into place, but the slightly-rewound construction, where you get Friday from