Review: Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Louise Rennison

London: Harper Tempest, 2006.

234 pp., paperback $11.25 cnd.

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-447227-2

Author, Louise Rennison writes the story of a year in the life of Georgia Nicolson. Using a journal format, Rennison gives the reader the inside scoop on the antics of life as a fourteen year old. Her protagonist, Georgia, hates school, lusts after a guy in a band, and has to help care for her little sister while her mother works and her father has left the country to find work. Georgia is the kind of character who doesn’t always foresee the outcomes of her actions and the results are hilarious. She ends up shaving off her eyebrows, for example. She had only intended to take off a little but it never looked quite right. She bleaches a bit of her hair to look older and it falls off in her hand when she is trying to run her fingers through it to look cool. She visits a boy who teaches girls how to kiss – for free! Is there a serious underbelly to this romp? Not really, Georgie does wonder if her mother is having an affair when her father leaves town to look for work, but it doesn’t amount to anything. This is just a fun beach read for an adolescent girl who will likely be able to relate to all those tumultuous feelings and perhaps even ‘tee-hee’ about them with her friends. It’s written in British vernacular with a glossary in the back. Recommended without reservations for every Y/A female. It may even be a book that entices those who are reluctant to continue reading. It’s journal format is simple and easy to put down and pick up again.

5P.