Cann, Kate. Shacked up.CANN CANN Canadian Association of Neuroscience Nurses , Kate. Shacked up. (Sequel to Hard Cash). Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. . 345p. c2000. 0-689-85906-6. $5.99. S Shacked Up is the second book in a trilogy about the lives of London teens. (The first book, Hard Cash, received a favorable review in KLIATT in November 2003.) Rich is living rent free in a flat, but he has taken in a roommate, Bonny, who has run away from her Ab Fab mum Tigger, a ditsy dit·sy also dit·zy adj. dit·si·er also dit·zi·er, dit·si·est also dit·zi·est Slang Eccentric or scatterbrained: "Needless to say, this ditsy crew succeeds in spite of itself" alcoholic. Bonny's wealthy divorced father supports her move. Rich is still addicted to the gorgeous Portia, a fellow art student, who poses nude for him and revels in the adulation ad·u·la·tion n. Excessive flattery or admiration. [Middle English adulacioun, from Old French, from Latin ad . She even gets her belly button belly button Medtalk Umbilicus, navel pierced just for the chance to exhibit it. Rich makes peace overtures toward his father, on the advice of Barb and Nick, his landlords. Dad has decided that perhaps Rich isn't a loser, since he is making money from his art and is doing well in school. Since "this isn't a crap American teen sitcom," the characters, who are mostly 17, deal with sex, drugs, and family tensions in a realistic and humorous way. These teens and the adults in their lives are appealing, so the reader cares about their fate. By the end of this novel, Portia is out and Bonny is, maybe, Miss Right. Includes obscenities. See review of Speeding following. Janet Julian, Grafton, MA |
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