When she first appeared, in newspaper columns written by the British journalist Helen Fielding during the mid-1990s, the 30-something Bridget was claimed as a totem of womanhood at the time: a calorie ...
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. It’s easy to pigeonhole the book as a product-of-its-time chick-lit, but BridgetJones’sDiary is also one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.