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Rennison, Louise
12 Reviews
(4)
YA
(Mis)Adventures of Tallulah Casey series.
Tallulah (A Midsummer Tights Dream) and the Tree Sisters are back for another term at performing arts college where they comically reinterpret another Shakespeare play. But drama follows Tallulah offstage as she debates who is better boyfriend material: Cain or Charlie. Though the book is light on plot, readers will welcome the return of Tallulah's humorous musings and this distinctly British, quirky cast of characters. Glos.
Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter
(2)
YA
Tallulah (Withering Tights) is starting performing arts college at Dother Hall. While there are some constants in her life, other things are changing. Also, Dother Hall is in financial trouble, but Lullah and her plucky mates face the problem head-on. With plenty of humor, self-deprecation, and literary and musical references, Lullah's fans won't be disappointed by this entertaining ride.
Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2012
(2)
YA
Fourteen-year-old Tallulah Casey (Georgia Nicolson's younger cousin) attends a performing arts summer school in the Yorkshire Dales. She quickly makes friends--all as boy-obsessed as she--while garnering self-confidence and discovering her hidden talents. Lullah's madcap adventures, her literary musings, and her naive inner monologues are all highly entertaining. An amusing glossary of Briticisms and Tallulah's own made-up phrases is appended.
Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2011
(4)
YA
Readers say goodbye to Georgia in all her "red bottomosity" glory, as she plays "Merc-lurk-io" in a school production of "Rom and Jul" and negotiates her feelings for Masimo. By now, it's easy to get impatient with Georgia--just get with Dave the Laugh, already!--but the tenth and final series entry keeps up the comedy of its predecessors.
Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith
(4)
YA
With Masimo in Pizza-a-gogo land (Italy), it's a decidedly unexciting summer for Georgia...except for decoding Masimo's postcards, dancing the "Viking hornpipe" with the gang, and caring for a run-over cat. Readers of this ninth installment may grow tired of Georgia's repartee, but there are some redeeming funny moments (e.g., rescuing sister Libby, whose bottom is stuck in a bucket).
Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith
(3)
YA
Georgia's latest romantic dilemma involves choosing between Sex God Robbie and Luuurve God Mosimo, while still thinking occasionally of Dave the Laugh. Newcomers to the series may have trouble adjusting to the quirky wordplay (an irreverent glossary is provided), but fans of the British teen will happily welcome this eighth installment, featuring the same hilarity and sarcasm in previous books.
Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith
(4)
YA
In her sixth adventure, Georgia heads for the United States, a.k.a. Hamburger-a-gogo land, where her main occupations are sunbathing, talking to clueless Hamburgese who want to know if she knows Prince Charles, and phoning up strangers hoping to track down current "luuuurve" interest Masimo. What was formerly fresh--Georgia's boisterous honesty, the madcap slang, etc.--now feels formulaic.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2005
(2)
YA
Rennison's talent for making Georgia's self-absorbed, politically incorrect diary entries laugh-out-loud funny will keep her fans coming back for more. In this fifth installment, Georgia's adventures include mourning the absence of the Sex God, who's off in Kiwi-a-gogo land, and falling for Masimo, the "gorgey" new lead singer for the Stiff Dylans.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2004
(3)
YA
In this fourth in the series that began with Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, Georgia continues to provide laughs with her loony diary entries. Fans won't care that this time around there's (incredibly) even less plot than usual; their only complaint may be that this is the final book in the series. Or is it? Georgia's parting words ("The official and proper end. Probably") will leave readers hoping for more.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander
(2)
YA
This third installment serves up more of the same: writing that is very amusing, very British, and very low on plot. However, as long as Georgia continues to treat readers to her wildly funny, extravagantly egotistical reports on her life (should she stay the Official Girlfriend of a Sex God or go back to Dave the Laugh?), those looking for a lark will enjoy spending time with this cheeky lass.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2002
Rennison, Louise
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
(2)
YA
This sequel to Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging continues to brazenly mimic Helen Fielding's adult bestseller Bridget Jones's Diary and recent sequel--and continues to provide similar hilarity. Unlike the endearing Bridget, however, Georgia is not exactly what you'd call likable; no one escapes her biting sarcasm--and it's this trenchant wit that makes her diary entries so entertaining.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2001
(2)
YA
In this unabashed imitation of the adult bestseller Bridget Jones's Diary, fourteen-year-old Georgia's journal is just like Bridget's: improbable but undeniably funny, with our comic British heroine forever finding herself in embarrassing predicaments. It's personality rather than plot that carries the book, and while Georgia isn't quite as hilarious as Bridget, she's a close second. Glos.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2000
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