This is one of my favorite books. I hope alot of readers will enjoy this one.

~~ Sending to Karry in MD. enjoy!

Released on Friday, August 29, 2003 at post office in New Berlin, Wisconsin USA.

Going out as part of our trade.

Thanks so much for the trade!

It was so nice to receive all these books today after the really bad weekend I had. Thanks again!

*puts on TBR mound*

I'm looking forward to reading this so that I won't be in the .05% of the female population that hasn't!

Well I'm no longer one of the last ten females alive that haven't read this book. It was wonderful, I really loved it. I spent an extra hour at the gym reading it because I didn't want to take a five minute break in reading to come home.

Thanks so much for sharing it!

Sending to mellion108 as an RABCK

Thank you SO much, thescreaming, for sending this! Now I will soon not be one of the last 10 women not to have read this book. :)

Right now I have to add it to Mt. TBR, but I really want to read this one soon. Thanks again!

I'm moving this one down from Mt. TBR, and it is promised to Ilios once I'm finished! Enjoy. :)

How funny! There were aspects of the book that were so much funnier and biting than in the movie. Poor Bridget with her self doubts and nice long run of horrible dates. I usually do most of my reading at night in bed, but I wasn't able to read this one that way because my snorts of laughter kept waking up my husband. My only complaint (a small one) is that because the book is written in a sort of shorthand, journal form, it gets a bit tedious to follow. I put the book down a few times to read something else, but there was never any doubt of finishing it. I'm also a bit speechless over the fact that Bridget is considered fat when, even at her heaviest, she weighed 131 pounds. Yikes! I suppose I better stay away from London; I'd hate to sink it.

The image of Bridget trying to escape for a good long cry at an art exhibit and ending up sitting on a display toilet used as part of the show was priceless.

For some reason, the fact that Salmon Rushdie has a blurb on this book strikes me as funny as well. :)

Anyway, this one is off to Ilios so that she can join the Bridget club.
UPDATE: Mailed April 10, 2004

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Hardcover, 271 pages

From the dust jacket:
"129 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's Diary charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Here is the comulsively readable, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of her permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, people with girlfriends or wives, emotional fuckwits, alcoholics, workaholics, chauvinists, or perverts. 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. Caught between her Singleton friends (who are all convinced they will end up dying alone and found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian), the Smug Marrieds (whose dinner parties offer ever-new opportunities for humiliation), and crazed parental attempts to marry her off to a rich divorcé in a diamond-patterned sweater, Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel--or at least afloat. Whenever her plans meet with disaster, as they invariably do, she manages to pick herslef up, go out on the town, and tell herself it will be all right in the morning, when life will definitely be different this time and totally alcohol, calorie, and perverted-fuckwitted-misogynist free.

Bridget Jones's Diary will make you like yourself for precisely those things you're most ashamed of. And through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and shouting, "Bridget Jones is me!"

Helen Fielding is a journalist and novelist who lives in London, Bridget Jones's Diary, which had its start as a weekly newspaper column, has been a number-one bestseller in England for more than six months and has become a major international success. It is soon to be a major motion picture from the producers of Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Just got this in the mail! Thanks to mellion108, I won't be in the .05% of the female population that hasn't read this, as the screaming said! ;o) It will go to my TBR Everest (it's not a pile anymore!) and I will update this journal entry as soon as I am done. Thanks for the generous RABCK!

Wow, it is a TBR Everest, instead of a TBR pile. I finally got to this book and I am glad I did. It was hilarious and I laughed out loud several times. It was my little reward for having defended my thesis proposal successfully. This book made me forget the world out there for several hours.

I loved Bridget's self-deprecation and the bits about the feminist rants with Shazzer, Jude and Tom. The passages about Bridget's mom are wonderful, as they show how a 30-something woman is transformed in a helpless child instantly. Daniel Cleave is really a horrible person and I wish he had had a more cruel end. I am glad though that Bridget found Prince Charming at the end, most of all because the beginning was not promising.

Thanks a bunch for sharing this. I will definitely track down the second book and the movie, so that I can compare.

RELEASE NOTES:

I am staying at the Wisteria Inn because I am graduating from the Florida Institute of Technology today. I'm not sure where I'll leave the book, but probably in a common area, probably after breakfast.