Looking Back - Bridget Jones's Diary

Looking Back... In an effort to transfer my book journal entries over to this blog, I'm going to attempt to post (in chronological order) an entry every Friday. I may or may not add extra commentary to what I jotted down in these journals.

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Fiction
1999 Penguin Books (first published in 1996
Read in October 1999
Rating: 3/5 (Good)

Publisher's Blurb:

"123 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow), number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)..."

Bridget Jones' Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement — a year in which she 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.

Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and — like millions of readers the world round — you'll find yourself shouting, "Bridget Jones is me!"

My Original Thoughts (1999):

Good. Not great, but entertaining and funny. Laughed out loud a few times. The single life problems grew tiresome and cliched, at times.

My Current Thoughts:

This book was so popular when I read it, but after thumbing through my copy, I know I won't read it a second time. The movie was pretty good, as I recall.