Stop in the Name of Pants!

I was very excited for this book to come out, but only just managed to buy and read it 2 months after it was released. Which brings me two months closer to the release of the next one, which I can't wait for. A recap on the series: Basically, Georgia writes a diaries about her first encounters with boys. The main three are the Sex God, Robbie, who left her to study the environment in New Zealand, but eventually came back for her. The Luuurve God, aka The Italian Stallion or Masimo, who took over for Robbie as lead singer of The Stiff Dylans when Robbie went to New Zealand. And Dave the Laugh, who was originally a red herring to make Robbie jealous, but who Georgia can't stop kissing or thinking about even when she was dating Robbie or Masimo. All throughout there are her hilarious friends and don't forget Wet Lindsay, the annoying girl who always dates the same guys as Georgia.

This novel starts after Georgia becomes Masimo's official girlfriend, but when he goes to Italy for a month, she kisses Dave the Laugh (who has a girlfriend!). There is a lot of romantic tension between Georgia and Dave the L, but the beginning is honestly, kind of slow. It really got good during the last 100 pages, when Masimo gets back. Lindsay is trying to break up Masimo and Georgia because she is spiteful and Masimo gets jealous when he keeps finding Georgia with Dave the L. He doesn't even know about the kiss. It all escalates at the end when Dave the L and Masimo go out to fight over Georgia, leaving me ACHING for the next installment.

I didn't like Masimo when he was first introduced, but he really comes alive as a love interest for Georgia. But I still love Dave the Laugh. I'm sure that this isn't the best idea for the target audience, but what I want to see is Georgia continuing to date Masimo, while having Dave the L on the side. I love her developing relationship with her mom and Sven is also one of my favorite characters. I think a real confrontation with Wet Lindsay would be amazing to read. In the end, really, I want Georgia to get with Dave the Laugh. I think that this will happen, but probably not until the very last book. I want more books, so I suppose I'm okay with Rennison dragging the story out some more as long as there is some more really good D the L snogging in them.

And...... MOVIE TIME. July saw the release of Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging, an adaptation of the first novel. I have finally got around to (trying to) watch it. I made it ten minutes. You may like it, but I couldn't stand it. I didn't like the way it was directed, I didn't like the writing. Part of what made Georgia so funny in the books is how whiney and melodramatic she is, but in the film it just came off annoying. I also forget how young all the characters are in the books, and trying to watch the movie made me feel old. There was a lot of good casting (some not so hot, like Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson, Libby, and Dave the L), but all of the acting felt wrong. All in all, I didn't like it and hope it hasn't ruined the books for me.

Startle By His Fury Shorts

I read these all very quickly, because I got them out of the library so I could afford to read them all. I laughed for days as my poor roommates tried to sleep.

Summary: Georgia and the Ace Gang are being forced to participate in a production of MacBeth. The bright side? Dave the Laugh and the other boys are coming to help out! Georgia has her normal boy trouble, normal Rosie drama (which is out there! Like planning a viking wedding!), and could she be interested in Dave the Laugh?

Other: Dave the Laugh is my favorite character. Also, I'm excited to post something, but I'm gong to wait for my next post. So read carefully I'll probably make it red anyway.

Favorite Parts:
1. All the backstage scenes where Dave the Laugh replaces common words with Pants!
2. Georgia is startled by his furry shorts!
3. Georgia wears hot shoes that are several sizes to small. She ends up having to walk home in them, then falls asleep with them still on. They have to cut them off.

Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers

Number six in this series was one that I was quite excited to read because the last one ended with Georgia learning of a family vacation to the US! Seeing Georgia's take on the States, especially the south, was something I immensely looked forward to!

Summary: Georgia is off to Hamburger-a-go-go land with her family and Jas. Memphis to be more precise. But Georgia's plan is to hop a bus to Manhattan and find Masimo Scarlotti, the Italian Stallion and new front man for the Stiff Dylans. This proves harder that she originally thought, and she returns home having not seen Masimo. Now she is back to normal life where everyone is out to embarrass her. And could she be competing with Wet Lindsay for the affection of ANOTHER Stiff Dylans front man?

Other: I love Georgia! She's so funny. The story doesn't seem to progress much, it's more slice of life style, but as a character Georgia is funny and original and I could read about her life all day!

Favorite Parts:
1. Georgia tries to call every Scarlotti in Manhattan and ends up ordering food for delivery.
2. Libby sings her bum song and these two old American ladies teach her the American word for bum--fanny! This could end badly.
3. It ends badly. Libby incorporates the word fanny into her song and sings it to a police constable at Heathrow.
4. Georgia and Jas bring Bison horns back from America and incorporate it into their "Let's go down to the disco" dance.

Away Laughing On A Fast Camel

This one goes back to the first one and is much more similar to it than the others because there are lots of boys and lots of uncertainty and lots of drama and this is what I love about the series in the first place.

Summary: Robbie has gone off to Kiwi-a-go-go-land and Georgia will never love again. Even though Mark Big Gob thinks she's one of those girls (a tease), she keeps kissing Dave the Laugh (who she's just friends with), and the new lead singer for the Stiff Dylans is totally smoking. One little date won't hurt.

Other: I love Georgia chasing around an older boy while not really knowing what is going on with the younger guys. She's just confused and funny and willing to make a fool out of herself having fun. It's the reason that when I read the first book, I said, "I can't wait to read the next one."

Favorite Parts:
1. Georgia tells Dave the Laugh that Mark called her one of those girls when she wouldn't let him get to second base, so Dave the Laugh finds him, punches him in the face, and makes him apologize to Georgia.
2. Georgia sneaks in to watch the Stiff Dylans practice.
3. Georgia uses too much glue for her fake eyelashes (aka-boy entrancers) and ends up gluing her eyes shut while she's talking to the smoking front man of the Stiff Dylans.
4. Georgia's dad says she can't have one of Naomi's kittens, so Georgia tells her sister Libby to ask her mom, and Libby terrorizes her mom until she gets a kitten.
5. And every other even in the whole book.

Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants

This novel was definitely not a disappointment. It was the perfect book to relax to after a rough week of exams (okay, I should have updated this way before Christmas, let alone New Years). It was fun and funny and apparently they're making a movie about it. I'll need to find out more.

Summary: Georgia is done with her red-botomosity and is through allowing herself to kiss Dave the Laugh. She's going to stick with Robbie. However, that would be easier if Robbie was around more. And when he is around, he acts very strange. He's started writing songs about the environment, and sold his hot car for a bike. Georgia's planning on being the rich girl friend of a famous musician, so hopefully he'll start paying more attention to the band and less to her father talking about Kiwi-a-go-go-land.

Other: Georgia gets a bra! Finally!

Favorite moments: As always there are many because Georgia is a ridiculous girl after my own ridiculous heart.
1. Georgia gets stuck in detention and has to volunteer at the school Panto. Trying to help Wet Lindsey into her tights, Georgia knocks her into the tampon dispenser.
2. For Christmas Georgia gives Robbie an identity bracelet with her name on it, because he already knows his own. Talk about marking your own territory.
3. Naomi has little baby Anguses. Go Angus!
4. Georgia finally goes straight and grows a backbone. She stands up to the Bummer Twins by turning them into Slim after they get Nauseating P. Green expelled because they forced her to shoplift for them. (She got caught because she put seven winter coats on underneath her own and tried to walk out. Then she got stuck in the revolving door.)

Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas

This is book three in the series, and I must say that it wasn't as good as the first two. It was still funny, but I enjoyed the first two much more. I'm hoping it was just that I was entirely too tired to enjoy it. I'm still excited to buy the fourth.

Summary: Georgia goes on vacation in Scotland with her parents and misses her new boyfriend, Robbie (the Sex God) terribly. But when she gets back he doesn't have a lot of time (his band is in the process of being signed to a real label!) and she can't keep her lips off of Dave the Laugh.

Other: Georgia needs to buy a bra... maybe in the next book?

Favorite parts:
1. Georgia turns around to kiss Robbie and he jumps back because he is afraid of getting knocked out by her nunga-nungas.
2. Dave the Laugh tells Georgia that he is in love with her and she doesn't know what to say until she sees that he has put on a clown nose and is just joking.
3. The sex kitten gets preggers!
4. Georgia becomes top in French class because of the hot student-teacher.

On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

I've been reading a lot lately, so I feel bad that my second blog entry (well, really the third, bu the second book) is the sequel to the first book I wrote about. However, this whole series is so amazing, that I can't help it. Read this book. Seriously. I can not wait to buy the rest of this series.

Summary: Well, I suppose the title gives it away that at the end of the last book Georgia and the Sex God started dating. This would be great, but her mom is making her go to New Zealand for the summer to visit her father. She doesn't end up going to New Zealand and Robbie dumps her, so she spends the rest of the book trying to get back together with him. This is combined with her feuding with Robbie's ex "Wet Lindsay", and her relationships with her family and friends.

Other: The whole book is funny, but I'm going to limit my favorite part to one part (see below). This is because I was reading it in class (sorry Ryan, it was too good to put down) and started cracking up. I could barely breath I was laughing so hard. Then I thought about how that happens in the book--Georgia is always laughing when she shouldn't and getting herself into trouble--and that made me laugh even harder.

Favorite parts:
1. When Sven gets the girls into the nightclub.

Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging

This is the first book in the series "Confessions of Georgia Nicholson" by Louise Rennison. I have nothing bad to say about it. It is the funniest book I have ever read in my life. And I've read a lot of funny books.

Summary: Georgia is 14 and in love with a Sex God (aka SG, aka Robbie) who she has no chance with. The story follows her wanting to date Robbie, as she learns how to kiss, starts to date, and interacts with her friends and family.

Other: The book is British, but includes a glossary in the back for Americans who don't understand British slang. I didn't look up words, but read the glossary straight, because it was just as much of a laugh as the rest of the book.

Favorite parts:
1. Georgia dresses up as a stuffed olive for a fancy dress party.
2. When Georgia's mom comes in to talk to her about why she is depressed. ("Is there anything you'd like to talk about?" "Yes, suicide." Georgia is so overly dramatic it's brilliant!)
3. The breast fondling incident.