On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
On My Wishlist: Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
Pub. Date: June 1st, 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books
271 pages
Paperback
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Meet Bridget Jones—a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the
answers if she could:
a. lose 7 pounds
b. stop smoking
c. develop Inner Poise
"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!"
I'm especially driven to read this book now that book three in the series is being published this Fall. I absolutely love the movies, but I've heard the books are even better. So, what do you think? Is it one you'll add to your Wishlist? Or have you already read it?
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