‘A comic creation’
The book ”Bridget Jones’s diary”, written by Helen Fielding, is a not very thick, not very thin, ordinary book about a not very fat, (perhaps a little...) not very slim, ordinary thirty-year-old woman - Bridget Jones. As you might figure out from the title, this book is her diary, and naturally Bridget is the chief character. This book is a one year long extract from her life.
On the first two pages of the book you will find a list of her”New year’s resolutions”, two pages with things that she will do and things that she will not do the coming year. Things like”not smoke, not spend more than earn, be more confident, learn to program her video” etc. In one way you could say that this is the base of the story of the book. I mean, we all know what it’s like at New Year, when you sort of want to start a new life, and you write down all the things you have to change about yourself, and then we all also know what happens later... But that’s another story. And Bridget does the same thing. There are a lot of things that she wants to change, and when you read the book you follow her on her way to a new better person. Whether she will turn out to be a more self-assured, nonsmoking woman who knows how to program a video at the end of the year, or not, I won’t reveal here... However, after that you’ve looked through her ”New year’s resolutions”-list, you can start read about almost every single detail of her life, from the 1st of January till the 26th of December, and when I say every single detail I really mean every single detail... Every new day in the diary includes a summary, not only of the most interesting things that has happened during the day, but also of how many calories she has consumed, how many cigarettes she has smoked, how many alcohol units she has drunk... And, not to forget, there is always a note of her weight. Because next after the fact that she is thirty and not yet married having two kids, which really really bothers her, that’s what worries her most in life. Or maybe it’s the other way around? Hard to say actually... Now, you might get a picture of Bridget as a person fixed by the idea of getting to fat, to old, to boring or whatever, (and I guess that’s the way she is on the whole...) but as everything else in this book, it’s all written with a touch of humor, so you don’t really take it seriously. As a matter of fact, this book would have sucked (sorry about the dirty expression) if it wasn’t for the great sense of humor in it.
