This book series is possibly the funniest I have ever read. From the perspective of vain, silly, socially obsessed yet awkward teen-aged girl Georgia Nicolson, we experience suburban England. Her father's ridiculous, her mother dresses like a tramp, her baby sister's insane, and her cat is violently untameable. Add in gorgey boyfriends and overly made up girlfriends (though with excellent senses of humor), and it reminds me of what it was like to travel in groups of girls in high school and groaning at everything my parents said.
Rennison's lingo only adds to the hilarity; this isn't a woman who's afraid to make up words, and we need more of that. To Americans it's particularly hilarious to hear each in your head. As a student taking a couple of languages at once, Georgia naturally writes some vocab from her classes, like she calls her mother Mutti and her father Vati from German class. The end result is a something fantastically reminiscent of Eddie Izzard stand up. Slowly you realize that her vocab is phasing into your everyday conversation. I still say "Gott in Himmel" and "Christ on a bike" and call breasts "basoomas."
A lot of people call these books the younger version of the Bridget Jones diaries, and I would agree (though thankfully without the booze and the sex). These quick reads are good reminders that though your awkwardness may never really go away, but as long as you and your friends can laugh about your martini olive costume, you'll be okay.
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