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Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #10)
A bit early to get swoony knickers but I have got them on.
For Georgia, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Just when she thought she was the official one-and-only girlfriend of Masimo, he's walked off into the night with the full hump, leaving Georgia all aloney on her owney--again. All because Dave the Laugh tried to do fisticuffs at dawn with him
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October 6th 2009
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HORRRRNNNN!!!
I struggle a bit with how to rate this one since (5 stars), I enjoyed every blessed moment of it. But (3-4 stars), as far as series FINALES go, it was over a bit too soon. I mean, you'd have to be extraordinarily dim to have not figured this ending out somewhere around book five, but still. I wanted to revel in the conclusion a bit more before I turned the page and found myself at the glossary. And, to be honest, I wanted something as gripping as Angus nearly dying in th...more
I struggle a bit with how to rate this one since (5 stars), I enjoyed every blessed moment of it. But (3-4 stars), as far as series FINALES go, it was over a bit too soon. I mean, you'd have to be extraordinarily dim to have not figured this ending out somewhere around book five, but still. I wanted to revel in the conclusion a bit more before I turned the page and found myself at the glossary. And, to be honest, I wanted something as gripping as Angus nearly dying in th...more
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I am full of sadnosity that this series has ended but…I lurved the ending! True to form, Georgia’s mad sham of a life is filled with hilariosity, ridiculousness, beards, lippy, half Scottish Wildcat fiasco’s and tarts and cakes galore. I’m so glad that Gee and Dave the Laugh finally got together, it was a long time coming, but they did the Bird of Avon proud. This book made me laugh, squee, sigh and then laugh again. Oh how I will miss these characters now that the series is over.
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I'm glad this is the last book in the series. It's not that I don't love Georgia Nicholson, it's that this book felt a little stale. The jokes had happened one too many times, the situations and the rack of lurve, just were overplayed. But Louise Rennison gave us a good ending, the one many (including me)have been hoping for, and Georgia did mature enough to realize maybe she's still to young to be mature. Hard to believe but this series has been around for ten years, while in book only two year...more
'ARE THESE MY BASOOMAS I SEE BEFORE ME?'
WRITTEN BY Louise Rennison
I loved this series when I first started reading these books by Louise Rennison but I think after a time a little of the quality of the books disappeared for me in the similarity between each succeeding book. Only up to the point of the last two books did the writer change up things in a different way.
I rated the first two books at 4 stars but everything up until this book I found myself only giving 3, wh...more
WRITTEN BY Louise Rennison
I loved this series when I first started reading these books by Louise Rennison but I think after a time a little of the quality of the books disappeared for me in the similarity between each succeeding book. Only up to the point of the last two books did the writer change up things in a different way.
I rated the first two books at 4 stars but everything up until this book I found myself only giving 3, wh...more
This is the finale of the series and it was bittersweet for me. I’ve been following it since the first book came out in 2000 and it remains one of my favorites, even though I can admit Georgia’s style of writing is not for everyone: red bottomosity anyone? Georgia is caught between two guys: Masimo, the Luuurve God and Dave the Laugh (who happens to have a girlfriend). Masimo’s band is offered a contract and he allows Georgia to decide whether he will accept it and move away or decline and st...more
So if your ever looking for a book with absolutely NO substance but will keep you laughing throughout the whole thing this is the one. Practically the whole entire time Georgia talks about herself and how horrible her boy troubles are when she has at least two guys that are at her every beck and call. The only redeeming quality of the whole series is the way Louise inserts funnies where you read it and can't help laughing out loud no matter where you are. The book being in England does make it ...more
I have an apology to make.
Dear man on the train. I am so sorry that I sniggered. I saw your face fall, and I know it appeared that I was sniggering at you, but honestly, I wasn't. I was sniggering at Georgia Nicholson. I would like to extend this apology to all the other people who suffered my laughter (and snorts, and silent shaking). On the train. Oh, and the bus.
I can be a book snob. I admit it. For someone whose MA is (and eventual PhD will be) in children's literatur...more
Dear man on the train. I am so sorry that I sniggered. I saw your face fall, and I know it appeared that I was sniggering at you, but honestly, I wasn't. I was sniggering at Georgia Nicholson. I would like to extend this apology to all the other people who suffered my laughter (and snorts, and silent shaking). On the train. Oh, and the bus.
I can be a book snob. I admit it. For someone whose MA is (and eventual PhD will be) in children's literatur...more
Oh Poo and Merde! I've just read the final installment of the Georgia Nicolson diaries, "Are Those My Basoomas I See Before Me?" I am so full of sadnosity. I hate to think that this is the last book. I always looked forward to reading about Georgia and the Ace Gang.
When we last saw Georgia in "Stop in the Name of Pants," Masimo "the lurvve god" had stropped off to strop central with the Mega hump because he had seen Georgia dancing with Dave the Laugh...more
When we last saw Georgia in "Stop in the Name of Pants," Masimo "the lurvve god" had stropped off to strop central with the Mega hump because he had seen Georgia dancing with Dave the Laugh...more
It's over. It's really truly over. I cannot believe I am finally finished with the "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" series. I truly can't believe it. I am so, so sad that I will never again rush to the library or the bookstore to pick up the next book in this completely pointless but seriously hilarious series. Oh, how these books made me laugh and laugh and...well, laugh. I love that they're not meant to be taken seriously. I love that Georgia Nicolson was always completely self-abso...more
For my full review please visit my blog:http://shadowsireview.blogspot.com/2011/06/are-these-my-basoomas-i-see-before-me.html
As finales go, this wasn't the best I've ever read. For me this is probably the least entertaining of the ten books. I was getting ready to scream at the book for Georgia to do what she should have done from the beginning. There weren't as many laugh out loud moments as the jokes were stale and the book was a bit too long. I did like the end though, I thought i...more
As finales go, this wasn't the best I've ever read. For me this is probably the least entertaining of the ten books. I was getting ready to scream at the book for Georgia to do what she should have done from the beginning. There weren't as many laugh out loud moments as the jokes were stale and the book was a bit too long. I did like the end though, I thought i...more
I started reading this series when I was a senior in high school, so there's a bit of nostalgia in my reading.
These are some of the funniest books that I have ever read and one of the only series that has made me laugh out loud in an embarrassing, what is that mad girl laughing at? sort of way.
In this, the final installment, Georgia prepares for comedy gold as Merc-lurk-io (Mercutio) in the school's production of Rom and Jul, but is distracted by the call of the Hornmeist...more
These are some of the funniest books that I have ever read and one of the only series that has made me laugh out loud in an embarrassing, what is that mad girl laughing at? sort of way.
In this, the final installment, Georgia prepares for comedy gold as Merc-lurk-io (Mercutio) in the school's production of Rom and Jul, but is distracted by the call of the Hornmeist...more
These books have entertained me for a good many years, and now we have finally come to the last one.
Georgia speaks in a refreshingly teenage-like tone, and instead of trying to make it more polite or more suitable for adults, Rennison has played up the angst ridden 'oh no my hair is pouffy it's the end of the world' narrative. The main character Georgia, is a great person and one i would have loved to have known back in school.
She seems to always be having a good time, and for many ...more
Georgia speaks in a refreshingly teenage-like tone, and instead of trying to make it more polite or more suitable for adults, Rennison has played up the angst ridden 'oh no my hair is pouffy it's the end of the world' narrative. The main character Georgia, is a great person and one i would have loved to have known back in school.
She seems to always be having a good time, and for many ...more
Like book 9, I am glad that I started at book 9 and finished with book 10 rather than reading the whole series. I can not deny that there are some funny things in this book. In fact, I think I'll add another star just for that. I did chuckle out loud a bit while reading.
Unfortunately, the story itself almost seemed like a post-script to the last book. It lacked some of the freshness and luster of book 9.
Also, the fact that the author basically made up a new language of ...more
Unfortunately, the story itself almost seemed like a post-script to the last book. It lacked some of the freshness and luster of book 9.
Also, the fact that the author basically made up a new language of ...more
It's safe to say that Georgia is a character that I grew up with. I started reading these books when I was 11 and now I finally got to read the final. Oh, the bittersweet feelings.
Georgia hasn't changed a bit. She's still the fun, high-spirited, careless girl with cheeky plans in mind. As Gee would say: Vair vair amusant but I'm full of sadnosity that the series have come to an end. I could never ever get tired of her and the Ace Gang, pranks they try on Mr. Attwood, Jas's dimness and frin...more
Georgia hasn't changed a bit. She's still the fun, high-spirited, careless girl with cheeky plans in mind. As Gee would say: Vair vair amusant but I'm full of sadnosity that the series have come to an end. I could never ever get tired of her and the Ace Gang, pranks they try on Mr. Attwood, Jas's dimness and frin...more
These books have been my guilty pleasure since I was 15-years-old, and I was actually thinking of not reading this one so that I didn't have to go through the "breakup" with a beloved book series. But I couldn't do it.
Luckily, in this last installment of the Georgia Nicholson series, not only does Louise Rennison neatly and deftly finalize each of the story lines (although in unexpected way in certain characters' cases), but she does it with the charming wit and insight int...more
Luckily, in this last installment of the Georgia Nicholson series, not only does Louise Rennison neatly and deftly finalize each of the story lines (although in unexpected way in certain characters' cases), but she does it with the charming wit and insight int...more
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Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? is the final book in the Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson series. It is about a girl named Georgia from England who is always "on the rack of luuurve". She is constantly choosing between boys, and her best guy-friend (Dave the Laugh) always seems to get in the way. This time, she doesn't even have to choose. She has previously chosen Masimo, the Italian lead singer of the band The Stiff Dylans. And nothing can tear them apart this time. Or can it?
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I'm glad that I've finally finished this series, and in a way I'm pleased that Georgia and Dave got together, but I do sort of feel like I wasted some time with these books. When I started reading them at the age of 12 I really enjoyed them, and they do still have some amusing moments in them, but the last three books have just been repetitive, OTT, immature ramblings! Maybe it's that I'm too old for these books now, but thinking about it, I never behaved like Georgia and her friends when I was ...more
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If you've never read any of the other Georgia Nicolson books, then this isn't the place to start. The last book in the series finds Georgia once again on the horns of dilemma and in the cakeshop of love. Her Italian Luuurve God has walked off and she doesn't know what to do. Add in Dave the Laugh and Georgia doesn't know what to do.
Much like the Princess Diaries, the Georgia Nicolson series went on just a tad too long. Especially since in the last c...more
If you've never read any of the other Georgia Nicolson books, then this isn't the place to start. The last book in the series finds Georgia once again on the horns of dilemma and in the cakeshop of love. Her Italian Luuurve God has walked off and she doesn't know what to do. Add in Dave the Laugh and Georgia doesn't know what to do.
Much like the Princess Diaries, the Georgia Nicolson series went on just a tad too long. Especially since in the last c...more
I cannot lie that these books have been the most fun I've had reading a series in a lo... actually, ever. They are light-hearted, fluffy, and hilarious without the burden of a real central conflict other than getting the guy, or a guy. I liked the main character because I saw so much of my younger self in her with the games, the make-up, and the constant boy craziness. Georgia had a hard time knowing what she wanted and it was so fun watching her try to grow up. I wish we could keep following he...more
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This book is incredibly difficult to review as a single piece of work, because it is so much part of a series (it is the final book in a ten book series, after all) that it does not work at all as a standalone book. I mean, not that it’s not funny independently, but it would be like reading a book in a foreign language (there is a glossary at the back, but I don’t think it can even begin to cover all the expressions you’d need to be familiar with to fully understand Georgia and her friends). S...more
And so the ups and downs of Georgia Nicolson's love life have come to an end. In the previous book, Georgia's Italian Stallion boyfriend Masimo gets the major hump over Georgia dancing with Dave the Laugh. She's not sure if Masimo still wants to be her boyfriend, but apparently he does. Only...he has to to go London with The Stiff Dylans (honestly, can't these boys ever stay in one place?). But there is still the constant in Georgia's life — Dave the Laugh. No matter how much she tries to just t...more
The last instalment of Georgia Nicolson’s dairies is just as brilliant as the rest of them. I absolutely loved it!
‘Are these my basoomas I see before me?’ was so, so funny. I’d forgotten about Louise Rennison’s ability to make you laugh out loud. She writes the most absurd situations and has her characters have the strangest conversations that you’d burst if you didn’t at least giggle at. She is a comedy genius.
The characters each have distinctive personalities and compli...more
‘Are these my basoomas I see before me?’ was so, so funny. I’d forgotten about Louise Rennison’s ability to make you laugh out loud. She writes the most absurd situations and has her characters have the strangest conversations that you’d burst if you didn’t at least giggle at. She is a comedy genius.
The characters each have distinctive personalities and compli...more
These books are such fast reads, but okay. I always enjoy it when a book makes me laugh out loud, even if it's just because they're so silly.
It's been almost ten years since I discovered the first book in the series, so it was about time I read how it ended. I'm probably no longer in the appropriate age group, but I don't care. (It was kind of weird reading the final two books in English though - I have the first eight in Dutch. But the translation was very well done and I had barely any tr...more
It's been almost ten years since I discovered the first book in the series, so it was about time I read how it ended. I'm probably no longer in the appropriate age group, but I don't care. (It was kind of weird reading the final two books in English though - I have the first eight in Dutch. But the translation was very well done and I had barely any tr...more
This is a fine conclusion to the Georgia Nicolson confessions. Though I am certainly pleased with the ending, I did find it somewhat abrupt… kind of like when you’re eating a cookie or chips and get distracted, you reach for more, only to find it all gone.
I was right, though. The Rom and Jul play certainly made a big impression with Dave the Laugh turning a tragedy into a comedy. ;)
One final Angus moment: “He was biffing toy mousy with one paw and then biffing him back ...more
I was right, though. The Rom and Jul play certainly made a big impression with Dave the Laugh turning a tragedy into a comedy. ;)
One final Angus moment: “He was biffing toy mousy with one paw and then biffing him back ...more
Let me just say that I love these books. I love Georgia and all her antics and her hilarious friends. I own all the books and I reread them regularly because they crack me up every time and are always a pick-me-up. That being said, I believe that Rennison really dropped the ball when it came to how this series ended. The thing about romantic comedies isn't the surprise ending. There's never any surprise. We like romantic comedies for the unfolding. We know who loves who from the start, but it's ...more
I wish this series did not have to ever end. I feel like I have been left all aloney on my owney. I will not cry because that would mess up my mascara and I have dignitosity.
I had forgotten how HILARIOUS these books are! I couldn't drink anything while reading this for fear that I'd start laughing so hard that it would shoot out my nose. Georgia's voice is just so funny and authentic.
A few lines I <3'd:
How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it a crap idea?
I said, "'She wouldn't get it if it came in a big bag labeled 'IT'."
If looks could kill, I w...more
A few lines I <3'd:
How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it a crap idea?
I said, "'She wouldn't get it if it came in a big bag labeled 'IT'."
If looks could kill, I w...more
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Louise Rennison is a British author and comedian most known for being the author of the best-selling Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls. This series records the exploits of a teenage girl, Georgia Nicolson, and her best friends, the Ace Gang. She is also a major contributor of comedy scripts. Her one-woman live show, "Stevie Wonder Felt My Face", ran in the 1990s.
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