If you've spent the past few years yearning for another book in Louise Rennison's Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series, you're in luck (sort of): Rennison has recently kicked off a new series starring Georgia's cousin, Tallulah Casey. Tallulah's misadventures commence in the just-released Withering Tights. Behold:


Kind of a great cover, I must admit... but I'll be skipping this nonetheless. I didn't have the stomach for the Georgia Nicolson books, which felt like a cross between Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ and a particularly painful teen romantic comedy. I'm just not brave enough to face that much excruciatingly British teen-girl humor.

Labels: Louise Rennison, New Releases

So, Gurinder Chadha's (Bend It Like Beckham) adaptation of Louise Rennison's Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging is apparently coming out on video NEXT WEEK in the U.K. What happened? Did it come out here and I totally missed it? Will I be able to watch the DVD version, at least? (Netflix has the release date listed as "unknown".) I mean, I'm far from sure that I'd be able to actually sit through a full movie's worth of scenes like these, but I still want the opportunity:



See? Totally excruciating, but I bet it would sell.

Labels: Louise Rennison, Movie Adaptations