Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

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

Yesterday I went to the bookstore and finally purchased Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging. I had been aware of this series since high school when a friend on the cross country team was reading it, but only just decided to try it out myself. It’s a YA series by British author Louise Rennison, and it’s written as the diary of Georgia Nicolson, the fourteen-year-old heroine.

Mostly, the book chronicles a school year of Georgia’s life, including her problems with her massive cat Angus, her friends, boy troubles, and family problems, and school. So, life, basically.

What makes the book great is its humor, which is both situational (for instance, the heroine accidentally shaves off her eyebrows), but also just in the writing itself – the character Georgia has a great voice that is funny and realistic. And of course, very British. Thankfully the book was not Americanized, though it does come complete with a Glossary of British slang (although I do wonder how common it is for Brits to refer to a penis as a “how’s your father,” but hey, it’s in there).

There are currently 7 books out in the series, but the volumes are all conveniently numbered, so I don’t feel the need to list them here.

Highly recommended . . . or fabbity fab fab as it were. I don’t remember the last time I laughed so hard while reading a book.