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.