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Sigh. My first experience with British Chick Lit. It really was love at first sight. A girl around my age (at the time) who snuck cigs, drank, had "wobbly bits" and never really had anything turn out right....the only differences between Bridget and me were a fabulous accent, and it turned out great for her in the end. And someone loved Renee Z enough to cast her in the movie version.

This is totally a rite of passage book for any girl who loved Judy Blume and Madeline L'Engle as a child...and stealth-read Cosmos at the public library because Sr. Gertrude Marie didn't stock that filth in the St. Matt's library. ( )

Although I enjoyed the book, it made me laugh out loud, it kept my interest, this is one of the very very few times. I liked the movie better. I know I know! I can hear all my literary readers groan, spit the coffee at the screen and perhaps yell at me why? Normally I would to. I find very few movie adaptations better then books…. There have probably one or two others…..if even. But the book just didn’t have the same sparkle as the movie. Again, maybe it was because I saw the movie first, I think that is likely why I didn’t enjoy the book as much, I kept waiting for certain funny moments to happen, that didn’t in the book that I saw in the movie.
Not to say the book wasn’t good, because it was. It was a nice entertaining read, full of British Humour, and Bridget is a likeable character, as are many others in the book. There are many who are a little, eccentric, but it makes the book interesting and keeps the reader attracted, because you want to know what the characters will do next.

Again, the only real problem was that I saw the movie first, so I was a little disappointed in parts that weren’t in it. Also, the style, because it’s a journal and because it is British Literature, is hard to follow. Sometimes short forums are used, and 9st….. for the weight…. But that just took a few seconds to do research, but other readers my find it … difficult (if that’s the right word) to follow.

One thing, (this is about the movie) did anyone else find, the made Bridget a little too over weight? I pictured her to be “heavy” but not to what she was in the movies. To me she was somewhere between 125-130 and at 5.7’’ that isn’t that heavy; more of that not quite plus size, but, not under plus size either. She’s basically your average women in a sense. Just a little tidbit I found.

Over all it is an enjoyable, light read, it will make you laugh out loud, and has some good, empowering and eccentric characters that will cause you to turn the pages.

Book Review on blog as well: http://juliebooks.blogspot.com/2008/1... ( )

This book almost made me want to go back and reread Pride & Prejudice....ALMOST ( )

This is one of my favourite books ever.
I read it at least once a year and never get bored with it.
Bridget has me in stitches with her hilarious antics every single time I read it.
She is just so easy to love and I find myself sympathising with her, even though she brings a lot of her problems on herself.
I like the relationships she has with her friends (Shazzer is my favourite!) and how they are always there for her.
And who could forget Mark Darcy? The first time I read the book, he annoyed me, but he's grown on me the more I read it and I think he is the perfect man for Bridget.
All in all, it is an hilarious book that I would (and do) recommend to anyone. ( )