Yesterday, I found out one of my favourite writers, Louise
Rennison, had died in February and I hadn’t even realised. I grew up
with The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
series as they were a big part of my teenage years. I remember always
purchasing one of her books every time I went to visit my grandma. My dad would
always treat me as I loved reading and in the countryside, where my grandma
lived, things to do were pretty limited.
Rennison’s books were my comfort when my grandma passed
away. I kept rereading them to remind me of the memories I had at hers but
they also played a key factor in making me laugh when all I wanted to do was
cry. They provided me an escape when secondary school got to be to much. School was never
easy for me and majority of the time it made me miserable, but all I had to do
was pick up one of Rennison’s books and I’d immediately forget the world. It was
normally the seventh book since that was my favourite and ironically the first
book I had read of hers. I even remember dragging my friends to see the film on the day of its release, I was so excited!
It was weird. The last book I read was the The Taming of The Tights at the beginning
of my first year at uni. It was probably the last book I read for pleasure in
that year. I never knew it would actually be the last one she would have written.
I hadn’t kept track of her work after that, as uni sort of consumed my
life for the following 3 years. Not to mention, it always used to put me in massive
reading slumps where the thought of picking up a book, even for pleasure, made
me feel sick. However, since graduating, I managed to find my love for
reading again which led me back to The Taming of The Tights. I decided
to download the next one in the series only to come up empty on amazon. This was strange, so I
went on Goodreads (A site I love and always use) and saw that she hadn’t written
a book in the last three years and then I spotted a message saying she had died. At first, I thought
that couldn’t be correct. I mean surely I would have seen something earlier, right? So questioning
the statement on Goodreads, I went on her actual website and saw the statement below
had been posted.
“It is with huge
sadness that we can confirm the death of our much loved author and friend,
Louise Rennison. In life, as in her writing, she brought joy and laughter. Our
thoughts are with her family, friends and you readers whose lives she touched. As
the Ace Gang would say… “Let your creativitosity run wild and free!”
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