This week at the Gilpin Library
by Larry Grieco, Librarian
After fourteen years Helen Fielding returns to her “Bridget Jones” series with the third installment, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy. Bridget is middle-aged now, and a single mother to boot. She is “stumbling through the challenges of loss…tweeting, texting, technology, and rediscovering her sexuality.” It all began, long ago, with Bridget Jones’s Diary, and continued with Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason, both made into terrific movies, starring Renee Zellweger. Bridget’s voice is still unmistakable, and her life is “bloody hilarious.” Of course the book is “tender, touching, page-turning, witty, wise, and outrageous.” In other words, as it was written in Elle: “Bridget Jones is channeling something so universal and (horrifyingly) familiar that readers will giggle and sigh with collective delight.”
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