Bridget Jones's Diary
The iconic #1 bestseller by Helen Fielding and basis for the films starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey and Emma Thompson. Bridget Jones's Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement. Caught between the joys of Singleton fun, and the fear of dying alone and being found three weeks later half eaten by an Alsatian; tortured by Smug Married friends asking, "How's your love life?" with lascivious, yet patronizing leers, Bridget resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult and learn to program the VCR. With a blend of flighty charm, existential gloom, and endearing self-deprecation, Bridget Jones's Diary has touched a raw nerve with millions of readers the world round. Read it and laugh--before you cry, "Bridget Jones is me!"
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This is one of those fun reads and it is so fitting reading this at the beginning of the year as our grandiose ambitions for self-improvement are already being challenged by the mundane realities of January/return to work...there is something very refreshing, earnest and grounding about Bridget's life, loves and adventures - absolutely relatable and entertaining but also invites one to be a little more kind and gentler with oneself and others - we're all flawed, we all make mistakes and sometimes we do get happy endings/promising beginnings - :)
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