Bridget Jones and other books I can't stop reading

[Trina]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> 
> I'm one of the rare souls who actually prefers "Bridget Jones: Edge 
of Reason" to the original.  It's hard to beat that jail scene.  And 
in the 90s Britgirl comedies, "Getting Over It" by Anna Maxted is 
similarly hilarious, and one of the best tacklings of grief in 
popular fiction I've seen.

I, too, prefer the 2nd Bridget Jones book to the 1st.  Perhaps 
because I read them out of order.  BJD was checked out of the 
library, so I got the 2nd and laughed hysterically throughout it.  I 
was completely helpless during the Thailand jail scenes. (And I am 
completely in love with Mark Darcy.  Do you think Bridget will 
share?)  In fact, I now have the set in my possession as birthday 
gift to self.  

"Getting Over It" is good too, although Bridget rules over Helen in 
my house.  

My first obssessive reads were the Little House series and anything 
by LM Montgomery.  My Anne of Green Gables is quite dog-eared and 
mangled, but this is only a sign of how much it is dearly loved and 
much read. And talking of LIW, I quite unnerved the tour guide lady 
at the surveyor's house at DeSmet when my family was there on 
vacation because I kept nodding my head in agreement with her as she 
told the story to the others in the house! 

Trina, getting prepared for Tuesday night's double Buffy (FX & UPN)