The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

Main Characters: Georgia, Jas, Rosie, Robbie, Tom, Wet Lindsey, Dave the Laugh, Jools, Ellen, Masimo, Sven

Series List:

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
Dancing In My Nuddy Pants
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
Startled by His Furry Shorts
Love is a Many Trousered Thing
Stop in the Name of Pants
Are These My Basooma’s I See Before Me?

Anna’s Thoughts

I luuuuurve this series so much, it’s another one of those guilty pleasures of reading! The thing is, it’s silly, it’s crazy, and half of the time Georgia is just a dithering spaz, but that’s what makes it so great! You can laugh at her, laugh with her, feel sorry for her, and then want to hit her right up side her head, all in one book.

I first found out about the Georgia Nicolson books in 2002, when I was in 10th grade (hello, forever ago!). I can’t remember if I checked it out from the school library, or the local library, but I saw it and checked it out from somewhere… and then when I finished it? I promptly went to check out the rest of the series that they had at the time (which comes out to .. well two books, apparently ha). I remember vividly sitting for my pre-FCAT test, and then trying so very hard not to laugh reading On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God because I would have been kicked out and made to redo it. Then again, that sounds like something that would happen to Georgia.. Hmm. Then? THEN, I started hording the books, I pre-ordered the third book, and the fourth, then the fifth, sixth, until I unfortunately fell out of reading for a bit. Even when I DID start reading again I didn’t pick up with the Georgia Nicolson series again because I knew my mom wouldn’t read it. She prefers her books to have fantastical creatures in it, not crazy self-adsorbed lead characters! Then, the trip to Indiana, and the only point in my life where I had WEEKS with nothing to do, so I started reading – what would ya know?! They had the last three Georgia books (7-9), and so I read them, and I fell back in love with her and her world. Which led me to buy 7-9 & then pre-order #10: Are These My Basooma’s I See Before Me? The point in telling you all of this, is that I want you to know my history with the books. To see that even though I went a few years without reading them, that when I finally caught up, I loved them JUST as much as I did before.

Are These My Basooma’s I See Before Me? is the last and final installment of the Georgia Nicolson series, and I’m praying that Louise is just pulling our legs, because my life might very well be pointless with out! The last book is no let down from the others either, it’s a fun, fast paced, book that follows Georgia around through all her snogging, red bottomosity as well as while she’s on the rack of luuuuurve. I loved it, just as much as the others, the only downside is that – like with the other books – it implies that Georgia is the one ‘choosing’ who she’ll be with, but really it’s the world evolving around her that does the choosing. I would have liked more evolution with her feelings and who she finally chooses or well, who finally chooses her. It’s very obvious that she cares about him and he cares about her, but we don’t see very much of it, just tiny bits here and there, and it’s le crap. And I can’t say anymore about the matter or I might ruin it. Sad, because I sort of want to scream TEAM DAVE THE LAUGH! from the roof tops!

Bottom line, if you like fun books, with characters that are just as imperfect as the rest of us, but have a great humor about themselves, and quirky little bits of British information, then the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson are for you. I would guarantee that you’d love them, but I can’t. Sadly. So instead I will leave you with Georgia’s departing words for us all:

Snog on, snog on,
With hope in your heart,
And you’ll never snog alone,
You’ll never snog… alone.

P.S. If you’re over seas, there’s a chance the titles are different! Check out Georgia’s site to find out :)
P.S.S. There are also about three different sets of covers for the series: Two American sets & one for over seas, I believe.
P.S.S.S. I’m just continuing cause I don’t want the books to be over!
P.S.S.S.S. If you know why I’m actually doing this, be my new BFF?