The Georgia Nicholson Books

I quite like Louise Rennison's series concerning the "confessions" of Georgia Nicholson. They're a bit silly and the details are sometime careless (last names change from book to book, and one of the tertiary friends--Ellen--seems to suddenly get a completely new characterization a few books into the series), but the stories are engaging enough that I don't get too caught up on the totally improbable conceit that these books are Georgia's diaries. For example, some minute-by-minute breakdowns suggest that Georgia is whipping out the diary during classes or assemblies, field hockey games, in between dances at the club, during make-out sessions. And, in fact, the bigger improbability is that a flibberti-gibbet character like Georgia would keep a diary at all, let alone in such relentless detail--the 10 books in the series apparently cover a year-and-a-half in her life (which I gathered from a throwaway line in book 10--I completely lost track of the passage of time before the series was half over).

So, I can overlook these potentially massive issues, and yet a minor, completely unimportant thing nearly sends my suspension of disbelief flying out the window. Two or three times--over the course of these ten books, mind--Georgia applies a hardening face mask, and then records her writing as though her mouth is immobile ("nuf noo nor" etc). Suddenly, I'm plunged into doubt. What the hell am I reading? Is it a diary, or something else? It is like in Dracula, when you learn Dr. Seward's diary was a phonograph recording? Are these youtube videos? Good lord, what is happening?