Independent Reading Book: Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones is just another mid-aged women who's life seems a whole lot more worse than any of us, but it is just that we forget how miserable our lives are as well due to our very busy schedule. She is a single girl on a doomed quest to improve herself in which she resolves to and fails to: visit the gym three times a week not merely just to buy a sandwich, to form a practical relationship with an accountable adult and to learn how to program the VCR. The book is hilarious in a way that it makes one slap the person beside him/her in order to pronounce the fact that they feel "That's Me!". Up until now, Bridget Jones is still talking about her life, boring and miserable and clumped up all together but under the mess, we spot the soft parts of her life and the fun parts that have a potential of becoming something that can develop.
All, I can do now is get a cup of soda, some popcorn and enjoy the rest of Bridget Jones's journey into life while I stay paused in mine.

What Makes My Blog Interesting!

The fact that a teenage girl at age 17 in Korea, is writing a blog post on her own blog that is non related to celebrity stuff makes my blog interesting. Now, be sure to notice the word "Korea". I mean what kid my age has time to write a blog post in Korea anyways? They are all so busy either studying for hagwon tests, going to hagwons, doing hagwon HW, attending hagwon study sessions or simply surfing the internet. But here I am, Angela Kwon not only sitting on a table but actually writing something quite educational. (Or is it..?)
      Away from the point that my blog is written by a teenage Korean girl, hate to break it up to you but there is actually nothing that makes my blog really interesting. I know, I know...I am being too truthful. However! Indeed, if we chose to change the meaning of interesting to "not boring" we can sort this whole problem out.
So, basically, what I'm trying to say is that, my blog will probably be not that interesting enough for someone to actually stop the TV show or comic book they are watching to read my blog posts.(though I'm still hoping that there will be someone brave enough to do that) But at least I have the guts to tell you this. I bet at this very moment, some kids out there from my class are actually writing for this assignment (to write about what makes my blog interesting) stuff like "My blog is interesting because it is trendy, new and interesting because it is so interesting and new" and they'll never know that, that post will be viewed by him/her for the first and last time. They actually might be convinced that their blog is actually interesting! *Yikes (Am I being too cruel. I mean, just because my blog isn't that interesting doesn't mean some others won't be either).
Ok....So with the new definition of interesting to "not boring" my blog is interesting because it contains the life of a teenage girl in Korea, and come on....what could be more interesting than that!

Independent Reading Book #3

• Why did you choose this book?

Well, this is how it went. I went to Google to search up "funniest British books" and this popped up

1. Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (1933)
2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
4. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889)
5. Wilt by Tom Sharpe (1976)
6. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
7. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
8. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse (1938)
9. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (1996)
10. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan (1971)

So I thought I might want to read "Right Ho, Jeeves so I downloaded the file and it was 818KB which is a very big file, I could tell this would be long so I stopped it (also since it is such an old book) and decided to read the classic, Bridget Jones's Diary. I know, I know, about half the class would read it for this new session and Mrs.Webster would not be happy about it but there really isn't any other book that I want to really read. I have actually seen the movie pop up very often in OCN and CGV channels but I never really paused to see them. But I knew who came out as Bridget Jones, Renée Zellweger and I thought "She really is a Bridget Jones". Anyways, I chose this book because it looked quite humorous and looked like something that could relieve me from all the stress I am in these days.

• Who is the author? Google her/him and give a bit of background. 

 First of all, we all know she is an English novelist and screen wittier. She was born 19th of Febrary 1958 and grew up on the outskirts of Leeds in the north of England. She was motivated to write the Bridget Jones Diary and this is how it went, so she was struggling to make ends meet while working on her second novel when she was approached by London's The Independent newspaper to write a column as herself about single life in London. She rejected this idea thinking it is too embarrassing and exposing but instead, wrote anonymously as an imaginary, exaggerated, comic charter. So this column quickly spread and became famous and that is how Bridget Jones was born.

• What do you hope to get out of this book and/or how does it relate/not relate to past books you have read?

I thought It would be a bit similar, maybe to the Shopaholic series that I was in such a craze about when I was quite young. I read all the series in a week or so and I think I possibly didn't eat at all. I hope to get out of this book humor that I haven't been apt to for the past few months and I think it relates to the Shopaholic series because It is both about humor and girls near there 30's having a mid-life crisis.