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First Published:
Apr 2000, 256 pages
Paperback:
Apr 2001, 272 pages
In the spirit of Bridget Jones' Diary, this fresh, irreverent, and simply hilarious book will leave you laughing out loud.
Angus: My mixed-breed cat, half domestic tabby, half Scottish wildcat.
The size of a small Labrador, only mad. Likes to stalk Mr. and Mrs. Next Door's
poodle. I used to drag him around on a lead, but, as I explained to Mrs. Next
Door, he ate it.
Thongs: Stupid underwear worn by old Swotty Knickers, Lindsay What's
the point of them, anyway? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell.
Full-Frontal Snogging: Kissing with the trimmings, lip to lip, open
mouth, tongues...everything (apart from dribble, which is never acceptable). As
taught to me by a professional snogger.
In this wildly funny journal of a year in the life of Georgia Nicolson,
British author Louise Rennison has perfectly captured the soaring joys and
bottomless angst of being a teenager. In the spirit of Bridget Jones' Diary,
this fresh, irreverent, and simply hilarious book will leave you laughing out
loud. As Georgia would say, it's "Fabbity fab fab!"
(This book was first published in the UK with the title It's Okay, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers)
Sunday August 23rd
my bedroom
raining
10.00 am
Dad had Uncle Eddie round so naturally they had to come and
nose around and see what I was up to. If Uncle Eddie (who is bald as a coot --
two coots, in fact) says to me one more time, "Should bald heads be
buttered?" I may kill myself. He doesn't seem to realize that I no longer
wear romper-suits. I feel like yelling at him, "I am fourteen years old,
Uncle Eddie! I am bursting with womanhood, I wear a bra! OK, it's a bit on the
loose side and does ride up round my neck I if run for the bus "but the
womanly potential is there, you bald coot!"
Talking of breasts, I'm worried that I may end up like the
rest of the women in my family, with just the one bust, like a sort of shelf
affair. Mum can balance things on hers when her hands are full--at parties,
and so on, she can have a sandwich and drink and save a snack for later by
putting it on her shelf. It's very ...
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