Bridget Jones's Diary

from LisaMaria_C

Bridget Jones had me at page one of her New Year's Resolutions that included under the "I WILL NOT" heading the line: "Sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend." Bridg...

from sarahzilkastarke

Bridget Jones's Diary is a guilty pleasure for me. I know it is not high brow literature but it is witty and I can relate as a former spinster. Bridget thinks she is heavy, not pretty enough (for what I'm not sure), smokes and drinks too much, and of course she always says the wrong thing at the ...

from eheleneb3

This is such a great book! After reading it my own diary was filled with factual, pronoun-less entries, like: "Must buy bread. Am thoroughly disgusted with self for yesterday's behavior. Am not doing that again." And I love Fielding's decision to have a Mr. Darcy character in her book, which can ...

from BoundTogetherForGood

Somehow I missed that this was actually a book, written as a diary; I formerly was only aware of it as a movie. I saw the movie years ago, probably not long after it was released. I watched the movie again fall of 2008, even saw the sequel. First time through the film I know I understood very lit...

from sacrain

Sigh. My first experience with British Chick Lit. It really was love at first sight. A girl around my age (at the time) who snuck cigs, drank, had "wobbly bits" and never really had anything turn out right....the only differences between Bridget and me were a fabulous accent, and it turned out gr...