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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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review 2016-11-16 13:57
Bridget Jones’ Diary ★★★☆☆
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding,Tracie Bennett

This modern reinvention of Pride and Prejudice is pretty amusing, if you can forgive the substitution of the silly Bridget character for Elizabeth Bennett. Actually, this is more a reinvention of the story, if there were no Bennett sisters and if Lydia were the main character instead of Elizabeth. Because Bridget is every bit as vacuous and boy-crazy as Lydia. Still, it’s a fun story, and the audio performance by Tracie Bennett (name coincidence?) perfectly captures Bridget’s voice as she reads the diary entries. I actually preferred the movie version to the original text, although this may be due to the audio being an abridged version. Abridgements are rarely successful, IMHO.

 

I read this for Task the Eighth: The Movie Ticket (Read a book that has been adapted to a holiday movie). Although it wasn’t explicitly a holiday movie, it begins and ends during the Christmas/New Year holiday season, so I think of it as an annual holiday watch, similar to Love, Actually and An Affair to Remember.

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text 2016-04-01 10:46
April 2016: Reading Plans
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
Fly Away Peter - David Malouf
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Barefoot in Paris - Ina Garten,Quentin Bacon
Pride and Prejudice - Vivien Jones,Claire Lamont,Jane Austen
Matilda - Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
By Love Undone - Suzanne Enoch

I wish I could just announce that I wasn't going to be sick for the coming month and have it work out that way, unfortunately I don't seem to have that kind of constitution any more.  I have been healthy for three weeks straight and every day that I wake up feeling good and go to bed still feeling the same I am thankful for.  I can no longer take good health days for granted because I can't predict when the next sick day will occur.

 

Before I actually get started on my April books I need to finish the last of my March reads, Cause of Death (which actually fits with this month's theme of books I need to reread to review as I originally read it years ago before I started reviewing, too long ago to write a decent review just from memory), so I likely won't be able to get started on the official books of April till the 2nd of the month.  Really, I just hope I can get through all of the books on my list this month as, if I manage it, it'll be the first time for the year that I get through all the books I've had planned for the coming month and that success will make me very happy.

 

April: My Month of Rereading in Order to Review (any books that don't get finished will spill over into September)

 

1. A Book you haven't Read Since High School - Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier, 248 pages (read from April 1-3)

 

2. A Banned Book - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 216 pages (read from April 3-5)

 

3. A Book that Takes Place in your Hometown (Melbourne) - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 189 pages (read from April 5-6)

 

4. A Book Set in your Home State (Queensland) - Fly Away, Peter by David Malouf, 142 pages (read from April 6-7)

 

5. A Book Set in Europe - Bridget Jones' Diary (Bridget Jones' Diary, #1) by Helen Fielding, 310 pages (read from April 7-9)

 

6. A New York Times Bestseller - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 378 pages (read from April 9-13)

 

7. A Self-Improvement Book - Barefoot Contessa in Paris by Ina Garten, 240 pages (read on April 14)

 

8. A Book Recommended by a Family Member - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 336 pages (read from April 14-17)

 

9. A Book with a Protagonist who has your Occupation (work from home/self-employed/writer) - Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages (read from April 17-18)

 

10. A Book that's Guaranteed to Bring you Joy - By Love Undone (Bancroft Brothers, #1) by Suzanne Enoch, 376 pages (read from April 18-20)

 

11. A Book you were Supposed to Read in School but Didn't - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, #2) by Mark Twain, 394 pages (read from April 20-25)

 

12. A Book from your Childhood - Heidi (Heidi, #1) by Johanna Spyri, 352 pages (read from April 25-29)

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