Il diario di Bridget Jones

Prepare yourselves, it's about to get personal up in here. So, I've never seen the movie of Bridget Jones's Diary, so I thought I would read the highly acclaimed book before doing so and, to my great surprise, I ended up hating almost everything about it. I 100% understand why people like it - it's f Leggi tutto

A quirky but lovable Bridget is trudging through her 30’s with a lot of well-intentioned advice from friends, family, and Cosmo. Although this book is delightfully hilarious, it hits on feelings on insecurity and the impossible standards women face: wanting to be independent but also craving companio Leggi tutto

Let's review this book the Bridget way! Reading goal for 2011: 35 books (not bad)Books actually read: 38(v.g.) No. of chick-lits supposed to be read in a year: 1 (fair)No. of chick-lits actually read: 2 (including Bridget Jones's Diary ) But wait a second! Who can call Bridget Jones's Diary a c

Like our narrator, both funny and deceptively stylish. (I have not seen the film).

Read as part of The Infinite Variety Reading Challenge, based on the BBC's Big Read Poll of 2003. Let me introduce you to the Béchamel Test. No, not the Bechdel Test, that's different. And not the sauce, either. The Béchamel Test is a very simply checklist to see if you should read a book or simply se Leggi tutto

Nov. 9, 2023 Addendum "Space is big." Douglas Adams Originally, I didn't go to the Bridget Jones movie or read the book because (pausing while trying to think of a nonoffensive way to say) they sounded totally stupid. After I read the book, I searched for a polite way to say the book probably wouldn Leggi tutto

|| 2.0 stars || If you’re in the mood for a book about a pathetic and self-absorbed woman who does nothing but moan about how unattractive and fat she is (even though she isn’t), who has no sense of self-worth unrelated to what men think of her, and who is surrounded by other awful and unlikable peop Leggi tutto