Back, and more painful than ever

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.