Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel, Book 1The iconic #1 bestseller by Helen Fielding and basis for the films starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey and Emma Thompson. Bridget Jones's Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement. Caught between the joys of Singleton fun, and the fear of dying alone and being found three weeks later half eaten by an Alsatian; tortured by Smug Married friends asking, "How's your love life?" with lascivious, yet patronizing leers, Bridget 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. With a blend of flighty charm, existential gloom, and endearing self-deprecation, Bridget Jones's Diary has touched a raw nerve with millions of readers the world round. Read it and laugh—before you cry, "Bridget Jones is me!" |
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Page 10
... feel in- credibly guilty all in one movement , while I leaned against the or- nament shelf for support . " Sorry . I got lost . " " Lost ? Durr ! What are we going to do with you ? Come on in ! " She led me through the frosted - glass ...
... feel in- credibly guilty all in one movement , while I leaned against the or- nament shelf for support . " Sorry . I got lost . " " Lost ? Durr ! What are we going to do with you ? Come on in ! " She led me through the frosted - glass ...
Page 13
... feel I have as Sharon has been ranting about it so much . Anyway , completely safe option as no way diamond - pattern - jumpered goody - goody would have read five - hundred - page feminist treatise . " Ah . Really ? " he said . " I ...
... feel I have as Sharon has been ranting about it so much . Anyway , completely safe option as no way diamond - pattern - jumpered goody - goody would have read five - hundred - page feminist treatise . " Ah . Really ? " he said . " I ...
Page 14
... feel it climbing up my neck . Now Mark would think I'd put her up to it . " I'm sure Bridget's life in London is quite full enough already , Mrs. Alconbury , " he said . Humph . It's not that I wanted him to take my phone number or ...
... feel it climbing up my neck . Now Mark would think I'd put her up to it . " I'm sure Bridget's life in London is quite full enough already , Mrs. Alconbury , " he said . Humph . It's not that I wanted him to take my phone number or ...
Page 15
... get into it . Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want , put anything you fancy into your mouth , and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to 15.
... get into it . Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want , put anything you fancy into your mouth , and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to 15.
Page 16
... feel ashamed and repulsive . I can actually feel the fat splurging out from my body . Never mind . Sometimes you have to sink to a nadir of toxic fat envelopment in order to emerge , phoenix - like , from the chemical wasteland as a ...
... feel ashamed and repulsive . I can actually feel the fat splurging out from my body . Never mind . Sometimes you have to sink to a nadir of toxic fat envelopment in order to emerge , phoenix - like , from the chemical wasteland as a ...
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