A Midsummer Tights Dream (Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, #2)

A Midsummer Tights Dream (Misadventures of Tallulah Casey #2)

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Performing Arts college, here I come again! Hold on to your tights!! Because I'm holding on to mine, I can tell you.

Tallulah Casey is back and ready to Irish-comedy-dance her way through another term at Dother Hall, but now that she's been officially admitted to the performing arts program, that won't cut it anymore. Especially if she's going to help raise enough money to...more
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Published February 2nd 2012 by Harper Collins
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daydreamer
Oh Tallulah, I feel as if in some bookish parallel universe we may, and this is highly likely considering how alike we are (minus the boob rubbing exercises), be sisters.
I look forward to the day we are reunited.
Jessica-Robyn
Rating, 2.5 STARS
This book was kindly received as a giveaway arc from Goodreads First Reads.

So, corkers, what is up with those things?

In A Midsummer Tights Dream there were highs and lows. We are returning with funny-girl Tallulah as she takes on her first term at Dother Hall and wild hijinks ensue!

Tallulah is a really fun character, so reading about her misadventures is always interesting. However, I had my share of problems. Actually quite a few. This time the writing itself was much easier...more
Gabby (Bookmarks & Bookshelves)
Bookmarks & Bookshelves

Louise Rennison, Is one of my most loved authors, her ability to get into the teenage mind set perfectly sill amazes me, being a massive fan of her Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series I was bound to try her new Misadventures of Tallulah Casey Saga.

Tallulah Casey is back at preforming arts college, and back into trails and tabulation of being a teenage girl. She has to deal with the loss of a friend who is putting on her slippers of show business and going to Holly...more
Gina
When I saw this in the library I was like 'there's no way I can't get it' because Louise Rennison is one of the very few authors that cant make me laugh out loud. I though I would've been a bit too old for her books now but obviously not! Now I have to wait a WHOLE YEAR just to get the next one :( Oh Louise is also very good at making creating male characters that you just fall in love with oh man (ie.Charlie and Adam maybe even Cian?) and all of Charlie's mates too!

The mentions of Georgia and...more
Tammy Smith
I have to say, I love British humor and have done since back in the days when Monty Python was being aired on PBS. So, this book felt like coming home.

I love Tallulah! She is such a great character. She is confused about her sticky outy parts and doesn't know what to do about any of it or who to talk to about it. Sure, she has some mates from Dither Hall, I mean Dother Hall, but none of them are exactly experts.

For instance, she claims she has Tourette's of the legs as she is prone to break out...more
Gena
I love Louise Rennison's new series! Tallulah Casey is just as enchanting and wacky as her cousin Georgia Nicolson. Tallulah has come over from Ireland to Dother Hall, a performing arts school in northern England, with flagrant disregard for her lack of singing, dancing or acting skills. Tall, green-eyed Tallulah is determined to tame her wild knees, make friends and kiss a boy and in this new series she does all this and more. Life is complicated when you don't know how or where you can fit in,...more
Jasmine
I REALLY REALLY REALLY liked this book. I thought it was even better than Withering Tights! I love the way Tallulah narrates, and once you can get past the confusing Northern dialogue, it's a fun read. While this book was very reminiscent of certain incidences and characters in Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, I didn't mind.

I loved the way Rennison drew up Cain; he's a really intriguing character who I can't wait to read more about. Pretty sure that's what she was going for and it worked beauti...more
Elizabeth (Miss Eliza)
Tallulah is back on her way north! She was able to secure a position at the "elite" acting school Dother Hall, despite her obvious lack of talent and the hatred of one of the teachers. Yet her mother still thinks she's too young to be living at the boarding school and therefore makesLulah extend her stay with the Dobbinses. At least this means she's closer to her young mate Ruby, and Ruby's sexy older brother Alex, even if he's off at school, he has to visit sometime... doesn't he? Also, staying...more
Stacy
I received this book free from Goodreads First Reads.

I had to bring my rating down a bit from Withering Tights, because while Tallulah and her friends continue to be charmingly barmy, there is little truly fresh material.

Tallulah Casey and her Tree Sisters return to Dother Hall for more obsessing about snogging and madcap high jinks in "thea-tah" college. As before, there were frequent moments that made me laugh out loud. Lullah and her friends really are adorable in their naivete, and the boys...more
Stephanie
Hilarious and AWESOME. I love this book (and this series) so, so much - it's so silly and fabulous and hysterically funny, and I was laughing from pretty much the first paragraph, which begins:

Performing Arts College, here I come again! Hold on to your tights!! Because I am holding on to mine, I can tell you. Which makes it difficult to go to the loo, but that is the price of fame!!! And fame is my game!

I adore Georgia's voice and her whole wonderful group of friends and the total wackiness of t...more
BestChickLit.com
Bestselling author Louise Rennison’s ‘A Midsummer Tights Dream’ is certainly not aimed at this 20-something reader’s demographic and was an interesting, but enjoyable, read for me. While I think it would be difficult for an adult author to express the voice of a young teenager, Rennison writes with convincingly, seemingly getting into the mind of an adolescent girl. For any mothers out there, this book is a safe read for their young daughters, the novel touches on themes such as boys, bullies an...more
Donna
A Midsummer Tights Dream is a quirky story of Tallulah Casey and her friends. She has been officially been admitted to Dother Hall's performing arts program and hopes to make a go of it. She needs to stay focused.

Tallulah arrives at the bus stop in Heckmondwhite at dusk and will be staying with the Dobbineses, her substitute parents, while she is studying at Dother Hall. And much to her delight she will be greeted once again by all of her former friends here that she made in the previous year's...more
Tina Rae
Aug 03, 2012 Tina Rae rated it 5 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of the Georgia Nicholson series
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Good grief, Louise Rennison is the greatest. I thought the Georgia books were good but, well, these are just getting better and better. I don't even know if I can form conscious thoughts about this one. I simply DEVOURED it. All the characters are fantastic and I simply adore them all. Even Cain. He's a jerk and Tallulah may say she hates him but, just, wow. I love him. AND CHARLIE. I could basically go on about Charlie forever. He is seriously my favorite character in these books.

And, honestly,...more
Libby
Part two in the Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, and Loobyllulah and her mates are back at Dither Hall and striving to earn the golden slippers of applause whilst learning the art of theatre and not getting roughed up by the rather large village girls, who don't take kindly to the posh girls mooning after their lads. This book had a great deal to live up to after the first book's Sugar Plum Bikey incident, and the dramatic exercises, while splendidly silly in places, can't really compete with bu...more
Anastasia Tuckness
I thoroughly enjoyed another romp through the moors and performing arts school with Tallulah. This book is nothing super literary, just a lot of fun a la Bridget Jones.

A few spoilers here, not that they matter with this book:

Their school is falling apart and behind on its taxes. T's friend Honey has been spotted by Hollywood and eventually leaves the school to go there. She ends up donating enough money to keep the school going.

"Good Alex" (Ruby's brother) has gone off to college, leaving T a le...more
Cheryl
I really want to rate this book higher, because I really like Tallulah and her friends, but this book felt like it truly embraced the "sophomore slump" of book series.

There were frequent things that made me laugh out loud or chuckle, but it didn't have that newness that made me just love the first book.

(view spoiler)[There were several things that I adored:
1) The Cain licking Tallulah was awesome. Mostly because that actually happened to me in the 10th grade, and I thought mine was a single ran
...more
Clover (Fluttering Butterflies)
This review was originally published at Fluttering Butterflies

I'm a big fan of Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson series, so I was always going to be a bit excited about this new bunch of books about Georgia's mad Irish cousin, Talullah. Set in a Yorkshire drama school with some equally crazy characters and some hot boys? I'm completely sold.

Though Talullah isn't quite as funny and outrageous as Georgia, she is still adorable. And problems with school and friends and boys and SNOGGING is the sam...more
Gail Gauthier
"With A Midsummer Tights Dream, I felt that it really was pretty much Withering Tights.

Of course, that's not going to be a bad thing for many young readers.

I still think these Tallulah Casey books have a little more depth than the Georgia Nicholson books. There's the parody of artistic types, for one thing. It's the same parody from the first book, but, still, good stuff. Plus there is the casual acceptance that young people read classics and make jokes with literary references. (Yeah. Maybe in...more
Wendy
Since we all know not to take these books too seriously, I won't tell you how little this book has to offer, intellectually speaking.
But how much fun is doing donkey enchantment dancing in furry tights and Mickey Mouse ears? The answer is quite a lot.
Throw in a Fevver Man and Sudsy the Dog, being surprised by a cute (but taken) boy when you are modeling owly behavior for impressionable owlets, and a surprisingly touching note stabbed to a tree... well, you've got yourself a great little read.
Thi...more
Adriana
I think I enjoyed this one more than the first installment in the adventures of Miss Tallulah Casey. She's back at the performing arts academy and this time she is pretty sure her corkers have started coming in. Much like in the case of the Georgia Series, here we also have three boys that Tallulah is interested in and that may or may not be interested in her. Total teen bait with this book. It's short, funny, involves lots of things that teens can relate to, and of course there are first kisses...more
David Caldwell
I won a copy on Goodreads Firstreads.

I am not really sure what I was thinking when I signed up for this giveaway.I am pretty much the opposite of the target audience. I am a middle-aged American man while the book is targeted for young teen girls.Keep that in mind while reading my review please.

This is the second book in the series so you don't get too much in the way of character introductions.Otherwise you won't feel left out because you haven't read the first book.There is a lot of slang and...more
Ty Morgan
This is such a good book after reading ALL of the Geogria Nicolson books, this was a nice take on Geogria's cousin life.
Being Georgia's cousin, she does get quite a few mentions in this book which makes me YEARN to read another Georgia book, it really does. Talullah and her friends are introduced to some Georgiaisms, like the Snogging Scale, which was fun. And I did love to see the Ace Tree Gang add their own crazy kissing things to the scale.
There are owls and gigs and crazy dancing and even s...more
Phoebe
I loved the whole crush triangle thing Tallulah has going but she's not actually leading any of them on. I like how this book is so well written. It short, snappy and quirky and I really enjoyed reading it. I am completely in love with Cain Hinchcliff! Although his northern accent is tough to understand at times. This book is different from other teen books out there because it is awkward and confusing, just like real relationships are when your that young. I loved The confessions of Georgia Nic...more
Brett
Okay, so Tallulah is basically a less socially assured Georgia in different surroundings. I don't care, these books still make me laugh myself silly. I'm actually enjoying these perhaps a slight bit more than the "Confessions of Georgia Nicholson" because of the setting: Louise Rennison's take on a Yorkshire village full of eccentric local rustics (think "Cold Comfort Farm"), a school for badly behaved boys, & a private academy of the arts run by some incredibly zany theater types is pretty...more
Ebonnicooper
I give this book four stars out of five mainly because I have this great appreciation of Rennison's quirky and somewhat awkward style of writing. I haven't actually read the first book from this series but it isn't too difficult to catch on. I love how it is a type of spin-off from Rennison's other series the misadventures Georgia Nicholson because that series had a lot of lovable characters, as does this one. I really enjoyed how the characters speak with the accent and the author spells the sl...more
Vivienne
I am actually counting this in my annual total as I both read the hardback book that I had borrowed from the library and also listened to the audio edition obtained via Audible.

It's not something I often do but Rennison's reading adds an extra dimension to the text.

Aside being a writer Louise Rennison is also a comedian and has done one woman shows at places like the Edinburgh Festival. As a result her narration as Tallulah is as much a performance as a reading.

There were so many laugh out lou...more
Kim
I kind of liked this book better than the first one of the series, "Withering Tights".
Louise made me fall in love with the characters (Cain!!!) and I can't wait to read the next book in the series, this one ended on a cliff hanger.
Tallulah is quite cringey and she seems almost like a magnet for trouble, but she is just trying to find her way through her teenage years - with corker rubbing, and boy trouble...
It's a fun, light-hearted book and I have to say that sometimes I find myself wishing tha...more
Adele
Full disclosure: this is the first book I have ever read by Louise Rennison. Maybe I will like her stuff more in the future, but the only thing that really helped me finish this was the fact that it's super short and pretty funny.

Oh man, I feel like such a crotchety old man right now. I think it's pretty fair to say that it took me the first 50 pages or so to even get into her writing style. The book itself is basically written as Tallulah's stream-of-consciousness diary. You can randomly flip...more
Christina
I just love everything Louise Rennison writes. Midsummer Tights Dream is no exception. Nothing makes me lol so hard. I have been dripping with anticipation for this book since I read the last one, and while I wanted to relish it and read each chapter s l o w l y, in the end I just couldnt help myself. I devoured the whole thing in one sitting and then gave my daughter nutella on a spoon for breakfast because I was too tired to cook from staying up all night. But you know what, it was worth it. A...more
Rebecca The Unicorn.:3
I'll start of by saying that EVERYTHING Louise Rennison writes, I find completely amazing!:D

Sure, the plot is completely predictable, the reading is really easy and it's not got loads of amazing descriptions. But I love how Louise Rennison creates hilarious, realistic characters that loads of teenagers (or at least I) can relate to!

In so many books now the main character (whether it's a guy or a girl) has to be really hot, without imperfections, smart, funny, confident, etc... Reading loads of Y...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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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1) On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #2) Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #3) Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #4) Away Laughing on a Fast Camel (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #5)

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