Withering Tights

By Louise Rennison

Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 – The first book in the hilarious series from the original Queen of Teen. You’ll laugh your tights off . . .

Picture the scene: Dother Hall Performing Arts College ,somewhere Up North, surrounded by rolling dales, bearded cheesemaking villagers (male and female) and wildlife of the squirrely-type.

On the whole, it’s not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting… but once her mates turn -p and they start their ‘FAME! I’m gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I’m gonna fill my tiiiiights’ summer course things are bound to perk up. Especially when the boys arrive. (When DO the boys arrive?)

Six weeks of parent-free freedom. BOY freedom. Freedom of expression… cos it’s the THEATRE dahling, theatre!

The hilarious misadventures of Tallulah Casey…

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Jul 8, 2010
• ISBN: 9780007352333

Louise Rennison

Louise Rennison was a British comedian and the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of the angst-filled Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series as well as the Misadventures of Tallulah Casey series. Her first novel, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, received a Michael L. Printz Honor Award in 2001, was adapted into a feature film, and has become a worldwide bestseller now translated into 34 languages. She was also awarded the Roald Dahl Funny Prize for the first book in her Tallulah Casey series, Withering Tights.

Reviews for Withering Tights

[mountie9_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It wasn't really my thing, but I think young girls in the 11 - 14 age range will adore it. The humour is nice and quirky but I think its just a little too young for this jaded 41 yr old -- give it a try if you like quirky english writing. The heroine is delightful and I think we can all see a little of the dorky awkward girl that she is in all of us.

[themadhatters_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Talullah Casey, budding actress and cousin of Georgia Nicolson, spends the summer at Dother Hall, a performing arts school that she wishes to attend full-time. The only problem? She's not exactly skilled at acting...or singing or dancing. What she lacks in talent, however, she makes up for with (unintentional) comedic timing. This was a fun, frivolous book to read and Talullah is a lovable, energetic narrator.

[annakay21 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It was a very cute book and Tallulah was a really funny character. I can't wait to read about more of her adventures in the next book. Hopefully it isn't too long of a wait! :)

[bekkil1977 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Louise Rennison is back! Not with Georgia, sadly, but with her younger cousin Tallulah in "Withering Tights". Tallulah is spending the summer at a college acting workshop in Yorkshire. She's not like Georgia: she's more serious and shy and not as prone to doing zany things just for the sake of it, but she still manages to get herself into some amusing situations. I enjoyed it, but damn, it made me miss Georgia so much.

[daniella0270 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

By the same author of Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging comes a new series about Tallulah, Georgia's cousin. In this book Tallulah goes to a theater camp over the summer and becomes engaged in typical teen drama. The main character is awkward and slightly insecure but very relatable to. In my opinion the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series was better than this series, but it was still a pretty good book. The beginning is quite slow but it gets better towards the end. I would recommend this book for any one 12-16. I know there are three books to this series as of now and I'm wondering how they compare to they compare to the first book. From this website each book after had a higher rating so I am thinking the series gets better.

[lilibrarian · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The first in a new series by the author of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging features Georgia's extremely tall 14-year-old cousin, Tallulah. Tallulah has signed up for a summer program at an arts school in Yorkshire, and finds new friends, new places, an interest in boys and an unintended talent for comedy.

[tarklovishki · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I barely summoned up the energy to care.

[bookswithbite · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a super cute, super fun read! I adored Tallulah and her funny ways. Tallulah is that type of girl that is super dramatic that it is so funny! She is always making small things big. I adored that she can look at things differently than most people.One thing that had me laughing in this book was the slang! There was crumps, bejesus, and all sort of slang that made you laugh your head off. It wasn't hard to understand, but you got the meanings right away. The book is filled with characters just like in Withering Heights. Ms. Rennison really took an classic and made it much more lovely to read. I adored how she incorporated it all in.The drama in this book is pleasing. You see Tallulah fresh out of the high school, entering the real world. I adored watching Tallulah come into herself and discover new things. The love twist in this book are almost the exact same in Withering Heights.If you want a fresh new take on a good classic, read this book! You will fall in love with Tallulah and her crazy ways. That is if she doesn't knee you first! LOL : )

[euronerdlibrarian · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Silly, relatable, and hilarious. Quirky lovable characters. A very accurate depiction of girls at that age and the sort of everyday dramas (which aren't actually that dramatic) of their lives. Reminded me of girls camp and 9th grade.

[laneliterati · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The second book in this series is better, but this one is still pretty good. Reminded me a little of one of the books in the Traveling Pants series, though mostly because there was theater involved.

[thelittlebookworm · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The Little Bookworm Talluah Casey is going away to theater camp or "college" as she calls it. There she meets some fun and talented girls and has adventures involving boys, owls, and, of course, the theater.As a huge fan of Georgia Nicholson and Louise Rennison in general, I was excited to see a new series coming from her. And this was definitely her style. Tallulah is Georgia's younger cousin and so there is some family resemblance attitude-wise. Just as Georgia was clueless about boys so is Tallulah. But Tallulah is cluess about a great many other things. She is precious and funny and apparently very tall. It's funny because I always think no one can be that clueless and then I remember myself in high school and oh yes they can. Reading her adventures with the boys, especially Cain, the brooding bad boy, brought me back to being a teenager. Except I've never been tall or lanky and not inclined to the theater. But Tallulah is refreshing and amusing and very British and I enjoyed this book. I thought this was a cute book, not quite as amusing as the Georgia books but definitely a good follow-up for Rennison. Tallulah is going on my must read series list.

[one_curvy_blogger · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I first discovered Rennison’s writing as a sixth grader in middle school. I picked up her Georgia Nicolson book from the library and fell in love with the outrageously hilarious situations the girl seem to land in with her schoolmates. By the time I had finished the book I was hooked. When I learned Rennison had started another series, I had to pick up Withering Tights. I fervently hoped the same level of funny and awkward would be brought to this spin-off series and thankfully, it was!The hilarious situations only multiply when Georgia’s 14-year-old cousin is sent to Yorkshire Dales’ performing arts program for the summer. She hopes to make new friends, land her first kiss and grow a pair of boobs (all in all, not too different from her cousin Georgia). What she doesn’t expect is to fall in love with her temporary new school, an evil neighbor who likes to make out with girls under her bedroom window and to fall in lust with a delicious older boy named Alex that is so out of her league.Tallulah is a lot like Georgia, except the lack of bosom (or corkers, as she calls them). Although I can’t relate to any of her body issues personally, we’ve all experienced them and it makes her easily relate-able to teenagers everywhere. It also made her easy to emphasize with, even though she does odd things like messaging her boobs into growing and writes musicals with bicycles.For some reason, before I started Withering Tights, I had the idea that Tallulah was college-aged, but nope she is actually 14. I wasn’t put off by this because she was such a fun main character and I loved her admittedly strange ways. Rennison really creates the most… unique and entertaining heroines!I’m not generally a huge fan of drama in my fiction, but the way Rennison brings the drama is so different from your average young adult author. It’s pretty much like watching a trainwreck that you can’t help want to watch over and over. That’s actually a pretty accurate way to describe the entire book. Withering Heights was a nostalgic, bizarre, and utterly amusing experience for me. I had a blast reading it and though I feel like Tallulah and I speak completely different languages, I can’t wait to see what she does next!

[pussreboots · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

When I finished Are These My Bassoomas I See Before Me? by Louise Rennison, I was feeling a pang of sadness at the ending of a fun series. It was time, though, for the series to end. Georgia had matured and her story had made its natural course.Louise Rennison has a new series, the first of which is Withering Tights. Tallulah Casey is traveling somewhere "up north" to Dother Hall for theater school. She's excited and scared but she's going with sage advice from her cousin (Georgia).Tallulah is a couple years younger than Georgia but not as young as she was in Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging. She's somewhere in the middle, meaning she's full on boy crazy and a full on spazz. Now if these two girls were unrelated, I'd probably be wishing for a completely different voice for Tallulah. As they're cousins, their similarities is understandable and funny.I found it a quick and funny read. Tallulah trying to fit in with the theater crowd and make her mark was endearing and believable.The sequel is A Midsummer's Tights Dream — and I will be posting a review of it soon.