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review 2019-01-18 18:00
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

I'm not going to put up much of a review as we all know the story (presumably) and thousands upon thousands have always reviewed it far better than I can.

 

The book follows Bridget, a thirty-something who's navigating life and it's tribulations; family, relationships, her weight. I enjoyed it and liked the diary format, for a while, although it became boring quickly, as did her perpetual need to lose weight. I understand why she wanted to be thinner, the pressures of society etc, but it became a little tedious.

 

I think I enjoyed some of the secondary characters a bit more, although they had little substance unfortunately. Sharon, or Shazza, was a great character, a raging feminist who hated men's fuckwittage. Love that word! I would have liked to have known a bit more about her, outside of the fact she was a feminist and Bridget's friend. The same could be said for Jude and Tom who were only really fleshed out at all due to their choice of partner.

 

As the diary format got a little tiresome for me I won't be reading another and I really dislike Hugh Grant, so I won't be watching the film, either. I wouldn't have picked it up if it hadn't been the pick of a RL book club I was meant to be going to (but never did), although I enjoyed it. 

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text SPOILER ALERT! 2019-01-13 17:18
Reading progress update: I've read 100%.
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

Well, I didn't make it to the book club I was reading this for (nerves got me), but I had a lot of fun with it. I might read the next one in the series at some point.

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text 2019-01-07 18:14
Reading progress update: I've read 40%.
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

I realise I'm ridiculously late to the party on this one, but the feminist book club that I go to are meeting on Wednesday and this is the chosen book. As I've never seen any of the films I'm totally unspoilt, which is great and I love it. Unfortunately, I continuously see Renee Zellweger as Bridget, though and I hate when my imaginations over-written like that.

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text 2014-04-08 18:50
Reading progress update: I've read 157 out of 271 pages.
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

That line made senses in the movie because R.Z. was at least a LITTLE chubby. But in the book,  she's around 124 pounds and while I know that everyone has different body type and everything, I don't really see how she could really be ''fat''. 

 

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text 2014-04-08 02:08
Reading progress update: I've read 15 out of 271 pages.
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

130 lbs(terrifying slide into obesity-why?-why?)

 

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