Module 15: Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging

Book Summary:

Georgia Nicolson is your average 14 year old girl in England. She is trying to assert control over her life, she is boy crazy, and she hates school. This book follows her through her daily life and reveals her thinking in each situation she finds herself. She brings most of the drama on herself because she doesn't ask her mom for help. She learns about boys from her mom's magazines and her friends. She even takes kissing lessons from a neighbor boy. Georgia and her friends see just how far they can push the rules at school and at home. 

APA Reference:

Rennison, L. (1999). Angus, thongs and full frontal snogging: confessions of Georgia
     Nicolson. New York, NY: Harper teen.  

My Impressions:

I could not stop laughing through out this book. I chose to listen to it and that really helped with the British slang. To me this was like the author took all the stupid, idiotic, and embarrassing things we girls did at 14 rolled them up into one girl. I can remember when I taught myself to shave and thought my legs would never heal. I never shaved off my eyebrows but i did have a friend burn her off when she use household bleach to try to lighten hers. The thoughts and confusion she has over boys, kidding, and dating where spot on. I plan on getting the next book in the series.

Professional Review:

American readers wondering what on earth “full-frontal snogging” is will find the answer in the helpful (and hilarious) glossary appended to this antic diary of a year in the life of an English girl named Georgia Nicolson. Snogging is, simply, “kissing with all the trimmings,” and it’s much on 14-year-old Georgia’s mind these days. For even though she’s still reeling from her devastatingly bad decision to go to a party dressed as a stuffed olive, she has fallen in love with an older man (he’s 17), a Sex God named Robbie. The trouble is, S. G. is dating a girl named Lindsay who--brace yourself--wears a thong. Honestly, how wet (idiotic) can you get! In the meantime, life on the homefront is spinning out of control. Dad has gone to New Zealand in search of a better job, and pet cat Angus, who can usually be spotted stalking the neighbor’s poodle, has gone missing. Although performer and comedy writer Rennison clearly owes a large debt to Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary (1998), her Georgia is a wonderful character whose misadventures are not only hysterically funny but universally recognizable. This “fabbity, fab, fab” novel will leave readers cheering, “Long live the teen!” and anxiously awaiting the promised sequel. (Reviewed July 2000)— Michael Cart 

Cart, M. (2000, July). [Review of the book Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging

      Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison]. Booklist. Retrieved from:

      http://booklistonline.com/Angus-Thongs-and-Full-Frontal-Snogging-Confessions-

      of-Georgia-Nicolson-Louise-Rennison/pid=1073977 

Library Uses:

I think this book would be great as a book club reading for high school girls. They could read and discuss and maybe have an adult female they are comfortable with there to answer series questions that come up.