Bridget Jones's Diary by helen fielding

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April 25,2025

I read it more than 10 tears ago translated to Lithuanian and completely forgot how different it is from the movie.
Way more darker and not that funny. More sarcastic, I would say. More deep, more problematic. It is surprising how after so many years all the problems are so relevant. Always worrying about your weight, obsession with calories (everyone is obsessed with healthy lifestyle now), relationships, career is not good enough, job is not good enough. Feeling outsider when everyone is living they life. Only now we call it FOMO. All problems are exactly the same no matter how many years ago this book is written. Probably nowadays journal writing is equivalent to everyday instagram stories.
I believe we will call it classics after few more years

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liliannexx

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April 25,2025

n “It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”n

as the film adaptation is one of my favorite comfort movies, i just had to read the book that started it all... and while i did enjoy it, it's one of the rare cases where i can confidently say the movie is definitely better, both in terms of the story and also the characters. bridget jones (movie version) is just so lovable and i didn't really get to see as much of that in the book.

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Duskive

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April 25,2025

pretty much on par with how i felt for the movie, really enjoyed it. i enjoy love triangles so much because the drama is good. the angst and jealousy this has!! bridget is also a really entertaining protagonist. daniel is a piece of shit that i love to hate and i kinda need mark… you guys know i love a nerdy man that basically has a stick up his ass. fun read! don’t think i’ll continue though cus im not about to read about a 10 year love triangle like that’s just insane.

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Eggxoe

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April 25,2025

Get up and make sensible plan. Will work hard on journal paper during day, then go for well-earned picnic at open-air movie theatre. Tonight's movie Bridget Jones's Diary (v. good). Make salmon florentine for picnic, will eat half there and save rest for tomorrow. Feel v. organized.

Hard to concentrate thoughts on journal paper. After lunch go back to bed, need to recover energy. Wake up again mid-afternoon. Decide to postpone working on paper until tomorrow, have to tidy apartment since guests coming for picnic and place looks like tip. Pack picnic. Guests arrive, walk down to water and find good spot to pitch camp. While waiting for movie to start, eat all salmon florentine followed by large serve of chocolate mousse and most of two bottles of wine. Halfway through movie, stretch out hand to grope girlfriend and spill remaining wine over brand-new picnic rug (v. bad). Girlfriend not happy. Arrive back home pissed at 1 am. Must do better tomorrow.

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SSbardock84

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April 25,2025

Funny, light-hearted, and sweet!
Just what I wanted, a nice easy read!
Definitely had some elements that I didn't love. It being in a diary format, it didn't have beautiful and descriptive writing, but it was still very enjoyable!!!
(I weirdly think I like the movie better!!!)

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CRUZER108

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April 25,2025

Read this first when I was a teenager. This book has not aged well...
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Edit: Changed to 1 star.

Mirror mirror on the wall,
Who's the _______ (insert any derogatory adjective here) of us all?

The answer would be Bridget.

Bridget is the stupidest, most boring, shallowest, most selfish woman I have ever read about. Thank goodness that she is not a real person, otherwise, an encounter with her would have resulted in violence. At first, I wondered if it was me who was unnecessarily angry (the lockdown and all that).
But I don't think so.

She is ALWAYS obsessed with her weight, her attire, the circumference of her thighs, the number of cigarettes she smokes, and the units of alcohol she drinks. But she rarely seems to do anything to change them.

Excuse me, have you heard about exercise? Well, that is what people do when they want to lose weight. Not hog on food and drinks all day and obsess about weight. She weighs herself thrice one night, just because. And 9st is NOT overweight, whatever anyone says. I weigh much more than that and I am not worried and I certainly do not obsess. I can see it can be triggering for someone with medical issues for weight gain.

It is like there is nothing in her life except all of these plus finding a boyfriend. All her friends are the same. There are some feminist lines just for the sake of it and then Bridget acts really bitchy and the subject is done. (She calls the woman with a friend's husband a trollop because she is wearing a coat B couldn't fit in. Said husband could probably be having an affair with the woman, but is our protagonist worried? NO.)

One incident made me see so much red that my husband was worried I'd throw my Kindle across the room. Just after her "best friend" (selfish asshole in his own right, no doubt) inexplicably disappears, and all Bridget is worried about is whether people are paying attention to her and what she will wear to his funeral.

Sheesh.

And what is with her diary entries? Like there is one saying, "Ooof." What, did she write in her diary while she was falling down?

One year through, there is ZERO CHANGE in Bridget. She behaves like a teenager and continues that way throughout. I have absolutely no idea why Mark Darcy or Daniel, for that matter, even notice her or fall for her. And what work does she do, BTW, that allows her to stay independently in a house in London? All she does at the office is to message Daniel and bitch about Perpetua.

And don't even get me started on Bridget's mother.

The author had so much scope to make Bridget grow a backbone. But she didn't and she doesn't.

Bridget remains the same throughout the book (or even worsens, can't say). Everyone steamrolls over her and she does nothing because Bridget does not have an iota of self-respect.

My rant ends here. Bridget is 30. I was 30 not so long ago and I remember how being 30 was like. Hint: Not like this.

Please don't read.

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sueskind

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April 25,2025

Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1), Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman living in London. She writes about her career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and romantic relationships.

عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «یادداشتهای روزانه یک زن»؛ «یادداشت های روزانه یک زن برژیت جونز»؛ نویسنده: هلن فیلدینگ؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: هفتم سپتامبر سال2005میلادی

عنوان: یادداشتهای روزانه یک زن؛ نویسنده: هلن فیلدینگ؛ مترجم: ویدا قانون؛ تهران، چشمه، سال1384، در280ص؛ شابک9643622932؛ عنوان دیگر یادداشتهای روزانه یک زن برژیت (بریجت) جونز؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده20م

نام فیلم: خاطرات بریجت جونز؛ کارگردان: شارون مگوایر؛ نویسندگان: «ریچارد کرتیس؛ اندرو دیویس، هلن فیلدینگ»؛ بازیگران: «رنی زلوگر؛ هیو گرانت؛ کالین فرث؛ جیم برودبنت؛ امبت دیویتس؛ جما جونز؛ پل بروک»؛ فیلم‌ برداری: «استوارت درایبرگ»؛ تدوین: «مارتین والش»؛ توزیع‌ کننده: «میرامکس (آمریکا)؛ یونیورسال استودیوز (جهان)»؛ تاریخ‌های انتشار: «روز دوم ماه آوریل سال2001میلادی (نمایش نخست بریتانیا)؛ روز سیزدهم ماه آوریل سال2001میلادی (بریتانیا ایالات متحده)؛ روز دهم ماه اکتبر سال2001میلادی (فرانسه)»؛ مدت زمان: در97دقیقه؛ کشور: «بریتانیا»؛ زبان: «انگلیسی»؛ هزینهٔ فیلم: مبلغ26میلیون دلار؛ فروش گیشه: مبلغ218,929,795دلار؛ دنباله این فیلم در سال2004میلادی با عنوان: بریجت جونز: نکته باریک؛ و در سال2016میلادی با عنوان: «بچه بریجت جونز» ساخته شده است

تلاش‌های زنی سی و پنج ساله، برای ترسیم یک زندگی بهتر است، او می‌کوشد در جامعه جا بیفتد، و گلیم خویش را از آب بیرون بکشد، و در این راه از یاری گروهی از دوستان اندک خویش، و یکی دو خانواده ی سنتی، در شهر محل زندگی‌ اش، بهره می‌گیرد؛ زمان وقوع رخدادها دهه ی1990میلادی است؛ پیروزی این داستانها، و دید و نگاه تیزبین «هلن فیلدینگ» بر مسایل ظریف، و حس جامعه شناسی قوی او، سبب شد، زنان بسیاری به دنبال کردن داستانهای «جونز»، علاقه نشان بدهند، و با ایشان همذات پنداری کنند، و بویژه وابستگی زنان، به نشریات زنانه، و خط و ایده‌ هایی که نشریات به زندگی زنان در غرب می‌دهند، در این داستانها مورد تاکید و انتقاد قرار می‌گرفت، و نگاه نقادانه ی: «فیلدینگ»، به مسایلی از آن دست؛ نوشته ی «جونز» را، به چیزی بیش از یک اثر هنری، و حتی فراتر از یک رُمان پرفروش، بدل کرد، و از آن، یک پدیده ی ماندگار اجتماعی ساخت؛ «فیلدینگ» کتاب نخست «بریجیت(بریژیت) جونز» را، که همان جمع آوری پاورقی‌های چاپ شده، در روزنامه «ایندپندنت» بود، در سال1996میلادی منتشر کرد، و یک پاره ی دوم را نیز، با عنوان جنبی، و کامل کننده «لبه منطق، یا همان (نکته باریک)» در سال1999میلادی، روانه بازار ساخت�� و در ادامه کتاب «بچه ی بریجت جونز» را نگاشت

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