On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson this question feed

asked by formula on November 26, 2006 10:59 AM
Fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson is back in British author Louise Rennison's irreverent, laugh-out-loud sequel to the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging. Written in diary form, these truly hilarious books chronicle the often minute-by-minute, very dramatic, and significant flip-flops of a teenager's psyche.

7:18 p.m.
My eyes are all swollen up like mice eyes from crying. Even my nose is swollen. It's not small at the best of times, but now it looks like I've got three cheeks. Marvelous. Thank you, God.

9:00 p.m.
I'll never get over this.

9:10 p.m.
Time goes very slowly when you're suicidal.

What tragedy has her so distraught? Her parents have told her she's moving to New Zealand just when she's managed to snog (kiss--look it up in the glossary) the SG (Sex God, a.k.a Robbie). This is of course not the only source of drama in Georgia's eventful life. Her half Scottish wildcat, Angus, who is the size of a small Labrador, herds the poodles next door and terrorizes the neighborhood. Her little sister, Libby, who is slightly mad, stores her "pooey knickers" and her scuba-diving Barbie doll in Georgia's bed. Her mother (from whom she inherited her orangutan eyebrow gene and possibly her "gigantic basoomas") is clearly inhabiting Earth solely to make her life miserable, and even her best friend Jas is "half girl, half turnip."

Despite the fact that she's spared from going to "Kiwi-a-gogo land," things don't get much better for Georgia. She's suspended for a childish prank right before her dad returns from New Zealand, she falls in love with the SG who dumps her for being too young, and Dave, the "red-herring" boyfriend she's using to make the SG jealous calls her a "heartless whatsit." And, she continues, "the spot on my bum is probably a boil. I wonder what Buddha would do now?" Rennison's comedic timing is brilliant. Adolescent angst ("I hope I am not driven to the brink of madness by grief") vanishes less than an hour later ("Angus can fetch sticks!!!") and sometimes even sooner. (Warning: Do not read this book while riding a train or bus unless you don't care what people think of intermittent explosive laughter. Seriously.) (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson


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_On the Bright Side, I Am Now the Girlfriend of A SG_ by Louise Rennison follows a girl who gets in trouble a lot and she gets dumped by her 18 year old boyfriend. She is 14. I never wanted to put the book down because i wanted to find out what will happen next. Louise Rennison has a great writing style. I read all of the Georgia Nicolson books. The books are consecutive, but they are a bit confusing. When I read the book, I felt a bit older, and I was in Georgia's life. Georgia's life is isolated except with her friends. Her parents ignore her, and her sister is crazy. As i mentioned, her boyfriend dumps her, so she tries to do the Red GHerring to get him back.
reviewed by bestseller on November 27, 2006 3:27 PM

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On the brightside, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god, is the second book in the Georgia Nicolson Series. Its about a teenage girl from England who is obseesed with this guy [the sex god] but he is much older then her. Along her journey to get him to notice her, she runs into a few other problems with her friends, family, school, and just life.
My favorite part of the book is when Georgia is goingb out with "Dave the laugh". Se seems like she wants to impress him and go out with him, but whenever Robbie [the sex god] comes up, she acts as if she doesn't have boyfriend.
I like this book for many reasons. One reason is because this girl is about the same as I am, but since she lives in a different country it seems like we have nothing in common, yet we do. I also like this book because Georgia uses all these funny "s;ang" terms. It's funny to read the book and understand it but then a word like "tosser" or "lurgy" can totally throw you off. This book may get confusing at times, but it's a great read.
reviewed by dataworld on November 28, 2006 3:57 PM

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This book is about a girl named Georgia who has a perfect life except she is moving to New Zealand with her family and has to leave all of it behind. She doesn't want to leave and she blames her family for all of her misery. Her dad ends up getting hurt and they are not moving after all but Georgia is faced with another problem her boyfriend wants to break up with her because she is too young for him and Georgia is heart broken. She has to win Robbie back and makes up a plan to win back his heart. Robbie is a tough nut to crack but if Georgia tries hard enough she can do anything.

I like this book because it is a book that you can't put down and you have to keep reading till it's done. This wasn't my favorite book but it was pretty good. What I dislike about the book it is kind of confusing because the story takes place in Britain and they use words that are confusing and hard to understand. Put overall this was a pretty good book.

I would recommend this book to people who like a good love story and to people who like a good laugh.
reviewed by vladi on November 29, 2006 10:59 AM

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