toxic trait, enjoyed but annoyed.

Necesitaba un libro que me quitase del bloqueo y nadie mejor que la bridgeta para eso. Al principio me aburría muchísimo y lo estaba leyendo un poco por encima porque desde febrero a junio no es que pase mucho interesante. A partir de los meses de verano no pude soltar el libro, estaba enganchada - la trama de Tailandia coincidiendo con la muerte de Lady Di 10/10 a la escritora.

He de decir que hubo momento en los que pensé que Bridget necesitaba seriamente ir a terapia y resolver toda su ansiedad (lo sigue necesitando) pero después de tirar los libros de autoayuda la noto mucho más estable.

No es un gran libro, pero es que creo que todas en algún momento hemos podido empatizar con Bridget. Realmente le daría un 3,5.

Nikt nie prosił, nikt nie potrzebował, a każdy chciał i się rzucił.

Nie wiem, czy była to bardzo potrzebna kontynuacja - szczególnie w tej dość przesadzonej wersji - ale na pewno jest książką, która pokazuje, że człowiek może spieprzyć swoje życie w sekundę, ale i je naprawić. Naprawdę dobrze się bawiłam czytając tę pozycję (chociaż zmiana tłumacza nie wyszła na lepsze mam wrażenie) i chyba o to chodzi z Bridget - żeby po prostu dobrze się bawić i odetchnąć od codzienności.

I don't really know why I still had this book on my TBR because I didn't really like the first book.. but oh well, I dove right into this one anyways.

Okay, so in Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason Bridget starts to suspect that her boyfriend Mark is starting to develop feelings for one of his coworkers, Rebecca. Of course this was a huge misunderstanding on her part because he doesn’t have any feelings for her at all. However, it is Bridget and it wouldn’t be a book if she found out that she was wrong right away. Nope. In the end, she felt foolish for even thinking that and all is right in the world because Rebecca started dating someone else. Right? Wrong. I hated this book so much.

LE SIGH!

Like I said, I didn't like the first book.. so I definitely didn't like this book either. It wasn't funny at all to me. It's like I was fake laughing just to get out of this book faster. I just don't like Bridget at all. She was so annoying and frustrating throughout the whole book. I didn't care what she went through or said throughout the entire thing. I just wanted this book to be over as soon as I started it. Spoiler alert: wine helped me get through this book. A lot of wine.

Overall, I hated this book. I will never ever reread this series. I will not continue this series - no matter what which makes me sad because I hate starting a series and not finishing it but I seriously can't stand Bridget as an MC.

I'm done with this.

"Ahora es muy difícil para los jóvenes —volvió a interrumpir Elaine, mirándome fijamente—. Una chica puede casarse con cualquiera cuando tiene dieciocho años. Pero cuando ha formado su carácter, aceptar la realidad de un hombre tiene que parecer insufrible."

I didn't like the first book as much as I enjoyed the movie but I wanted to read it anyway cause I love the movie - the characters were much more superficial and I couldn't relate to Bridget as much. The story about her mother was pretty crazy - totally unbelievable - they tamed it down for the movie.

Anyway I thought I would try out the 2nd book thinking maybe the character had grown some but she was still just as bad and annoying and her friends were worse - being married and a mom I was really annoyed at the way her friends treated and talked about their married friend who had recently had a baby. I just couldn't find the humor in it and they were all just totally not likeable. The only character I did like was Mark Darcy who had some funny dialogue. I also enjoyed some of the interview with Colin Firth altho Bridget just comes off as such an idiot.

I didn't finish this book cause I just had no sympathy for Bridget and just couldn't relate to her. I didn't love the 2nd movie based on this book as much as the first movie but it was a vast improvement on the book. In the movie you can sympathize with Bridget a lot more and her quirks are endearing not completely annoying.

After my embarrassing self-discovery review of Bridget Jones's Diary, where I admitted to the world that yes, I was Bridget Jones, I launched into the sequel ready for more relatability and laughs. I was disappointed to learn that Fielding had decided to throw Bridget to the wolves of sequels, and deliver to her readers a multitude of setbacks that became less believable as the diary went on.

Jones in her underwear outside and being happened upon by her ex. Jones finding a small Oriental boy and a bunny rabbit in her boyfriend's bed. Jones arrested for drug trafficking. Jones being targeted by a lunatic murderer. The ridiculousness of it all made the story less funny than its predecessor, as one spent the entire time exasperated by this hapless bad luck magnet. It was so forced. It felt like Fielding was capitalising on Bridget's wit and irrevocable calamity, so she hammed both of these up to an uncomfortable degree. Utter slapstick.

The diary format I so loved in the previous novel failed miserably this time. Fielding opted for longer diary entries, giving the story more of the feel of a novel, where previously the shorter glimpses into Bridget's life gave the air of writing on the go, again in the most unfeasible places. God knows how she managed to smuggle her diary into a Thai prison, or to write exactly 0 minutes after having sex.

A catalogue of stories you'd hear from exaggerating drunks, and, quite frankly, an organised mess. I'm pleased to report I'm no longer Bridget Jones, as (and I struggled to believe this previously) she truly is a fictional being whom I cannot relate to. Fielding lost her everywoman.

6/8/2016
I have an unnatural soft spot for this book. As I said last time, the movie is a trainwreck and the two should not be compared. The similarities to Persuasion are nicely done and that spoilery moment below? Yeah, that still makes me tear up.

18/12/2011
I reread this today for the millionth time. Having finished the first one yesterday, I honestly think I prefer this. Possibly because it's loosely based on Persuasion, which is my all-time favourite Jane Austen book. I absolutely adore the part where Bridget and Mark meet in the hallway at night, and he freaks out and they finally talk about their feelings. It makes me tear up every time I read it.

I can't even begin to emphasise how much they mangled it into a piece of utter bollocks when they made the movie version.

Bridget Jones fans can be happy. This is another book about the nice Bridget. Are funny moments. I haven't read the first part, so this book made me want to read it. My opinion is that the adventures of Bridget Jones are nice, and I can also read the first part :)

True Rating: 3.75/5

Much better than the first. Bridget Jones is still a mess. But her ridiculous mishaps made me laugh. Is it still problematic? Yep! But I knew what I was getting into this time so enjoyed it a lot. Plus it's a modern-day retelling of 'Persuasion'. My favorite Jane Austen novel.

Ihastuttava kirja ja myös hauska. Tosin pidin elokuvasta kuitenkin enemmän. Kirjailija osaa kirjoittaa sujuvasti ja mielenkiintoa herättävästi. Päiväkirjamuotoon kirjoitettu teksti ei ehkä toimi kaikkein parhaiten kuunnellessa niin kuin nyt olen näiden kohdalla tehnyt - tämänkin osan olen lukenut joskus aikoja sitten ennenkin. Kirjoittaessa se toimii paremmin.

So just like the first book, the movie was actually better even though it was terrible.

This book is just plainly problematic, from uses of degrading racial terms (the n-word, “oriental”) to the entire country of Thailand and its people being relegated to the backdrop of Bridget’s drama as she constantly harps on about the backwardness of its “Third-World” conditions and omg!! what weird culture!!! Let’s talk about Madonna because that’s feminism!!!

She also continues to listen to everything her friends tell her (all of which is stupid) and has no thoughts of her own. Her relationship with Mark Darcy is toxic and non-communicative and during this entire reading experience I was bouncing between “WOW Mark and Bridget are terrible and deserve each other” and “I cannot think of two people who shouldn’t be in a relationship as much as these two.”