Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

In the book Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison, the main character, Georgia, is going through things that any teenage girl is likely to go through. Georgia lives in England with her mother, father, three year old sister, Libby, and “pure devil” cat, Angus. She is the girlfriend of a “Sex God,” who is the lead singer of a band, the Stiff Dylans. She has a group of friends, Ellen, Jools, Rosie, Mabs, and her best friend, Jas, who refer to themselves as the ace gang. She goes to Stalag 14, an all girls school, everyday, well, except weekends, and listens to teachers talk on and on. Sounds like a normal life, right? You do not know the half of it.

In the beginning of the story, Georgia’s boyfriend, the Sex God, AKA Robbie, has gone to Whakatane, New Zealand, AKA Kiwi-a-gogo land for a year. He is a great singer and songwriter who has the dream to “make it big” there. Georgia is very depressed and refuses to leave the house, except, of course, for school. She has called Jas every fifteen minutes since Robbie left. She also wonder s why her “friend with benefits,” Dave the Laugh has not called her. She thought he was interested in her. That is just boys, I guess. Later, her friend Rosie calls and invites her to a teenage wolf party in honor of her boyfriend, Sven’s, return from “Swedenland.” Georgia is not sure if she will go because she is so full of “heartbreakosity.”

The SG has been gone for more than a month and Georgia still has not received a letter from him. Then, one day while leaving for school, the postman hands Georgia an envelope. It is a letter from the SG, yay! Georgia is very happy and skips all the way to school. To make her day even better, “Elvis” Attwood, the mean school caretaker, was retiring! Georgia was quite disappointed when she read the letter, however, because SG just rambled on about how beautiful and sheep filled it was in Kiwi-a-gogo land. It did not mention her once! She was very upset until Jas suggested that it might be in code. Genius! She “deciphered” it and got an “interesting” outcome. Finally, she came to the conclusion that it was not in code, it was just a very shoddy letter.