Life would and will go on no matter what drama I was dealing with. As I flew through this book I felt like a friend was whispering in my ear, telling me that in a few years I would look back on my current dilemma with a sense of greater perspective. The tumultuous, hilarious, often ridiculously dramatic diary entries of Georgia reminded my how stuck in our own heads we can get. I don’t miss those awkward, angsty teenage years, but I do think that looking back on them can teach us valuable lessons. But even when they thought they would die of sheer embarrassment, life went on. To them every mistake seemed like the end of the world, every conversation with a boy gone wrong amounted to absolute failure in their eyes. Reading about the intensity of Georgia and her friends as they analyzed and scrutinized every word boys said and every aspect of their reflections in the mirror made me feel better about my own dilemma. And my plan absolutely worked, even better than I had anticipated.
I’ll talk about the specific context in which I read this book in an upcoming post, but for now let’s just say that I turned to Georgia Nicolson and her teenage angst hoping to be cheered up and distracted from my own blue feelings. You can probably imagine my excitement as I eagerly checked that very same copy out of the library this summer, doing what I should have done years ago. I had seen its fluorescent lime green spine on the shelves of my local public library’s YA section for years and had always been curious. After watching the movie adaptation of Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison, I knew that I would have to add this book to my summer TBR.
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