false 1967788 "I have no right to complain about my life. I mean, it's the same for everybody. And I do what we all do — I take it on the chin and patch myself up with Jane Austen." ~ Amanda Price, ITV's Lost In Austen

]]> female The United States 01/2009 12/2009 1265 Jane Austen 1077326 J.K. Rowling 64280 Ludwig Bemelmans 792 Giada De Laurentiis 10 164 139 true 5769333 read 1 true 4299585 currently-reading 24 true 4299584 to-read 100 false 4858502 books-i-own 55 false 4858505 read-in-2009 54 false 4309572 book-to-film 54 false 4304194 young-adult 52 false 4304201 chick-lit 42 false 4308306 childrens 41 false 4308449 jane-austen 31 false 4304206 classics 18 false 4828426 nonfiction 11 false 4828427 historical-fiction 5 false 4693151 cookbooks Startled by His Furry Shorts (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Book 7) by Louise Rennison]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81128194 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179005285s/864766.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:09:14 -0800 more...]]> "...Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers" (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Book 6) by Louise Rennison]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81128126 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171660760s/112693.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:13:59 -0800 more...]]> "...and That's When It Fell Off in My Hand" (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Book 5) by Louise Rennison]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81128090 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416A0WG5NAL._SL75_.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:35:44 -0800 more...]]> Dancing In My Nuddy-Pants (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Book 4) by Louise Rennison]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81127557 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179005270s/864761.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:21:27 -0800 Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants! follows Georgia as she balances being the girlfriend of a pop-star sex god and maintaining a purely platonic relationship with Dave the Laugh, who's now dating her friend Ellen. In this book, ...more...]]> Knocked Out By My Nunga-nungas (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Book 3) by Louise Rennison]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80999745 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179005269s/864758.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:44:38 -0800
Except it isn't. For starters, Georgia's dad ha...more...]]> It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Book 2) by Louise Rennison]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73563817 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179005270s/864762.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:02:01 -0800 Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging. It picks up right where the first book in the series leaves off. Georgia has landed a sex-god boyfriend, but it isn't long at all before the relationship comes to a halt (due to their age difference of about three ...more...]]> Merlin: The Complete Guide (Paperback) by Jacqueline Rayner]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70867902 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259878815s/6619824.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:29:07 -0800 Merlin. It's less than 100 pages long, but every page has full-color photos and information regarding the first series of the show. It gives great detail to the plotlines, characters, magical creatures, objects and spells in Merlin. If you were ever confused...more...]]> Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Book 1) by Louise Rennison]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73563789 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179005269s/864759.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:44:07 -0800 Bridget Jones's Diary (which I didn't like)? After all, the Georgia Nicholson series has been called Bridget Jones, but younger and funnier. I saw these books many years ago at the store while browsing the YA section, and the funny t...more...]]> Bridget Jones's Diary (Hardcover) by Helen Fielding]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74891651 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255842614s/533744.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:45:57 -0800 Pride and Prejudice when she wrote this book. While reading it, I started to think the only thing it has in common with Austen's novel is that the hero's name is Darcy. The protagonist is nothing like Elizabeth Bennet. Bridget dulls in comparison to Lizzie's wit and ch...more...]]> Mr. Darcy, Vampyre (Paperback) by Amanda Grange]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62444940 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255569935s/6691280.jpg 1967788 Kat http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1239045482p2/1967788.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1967788-kat Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:59:18 -0700 This plot sounds a bit familar. With the vampire craze sweeping the fiction world, it was only a matter of time before someone took Jane Austen's most popular novel and turned it into a vampire romance. I just wasn't expecting it to be Amanda ...more...]]>