byHelen Fielding|Novel13492 votes Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding is a delightful and humorous novel that follows the daily struggles of Bridget as she navigates her way through life. The story is full of laugh-out-loud moments, tender moments, and lots of lessons to be learned abou...
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Louise Rennison’s series has been called the YA version of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones, for good reason: it’s narrated in first-person by a witty Brit who can’t stop fixating on her appearance and often finds herself at the center of frequent mishaps. Check out the first installment...
Edward Gibbon:Roman Tolerancehttps://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/10/quote-of-the-day-october-5-2011-roman-tolerance.html: 'The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by th...
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See Back to Lisa See and more tragedy, misogyny and atrocities heaped on women. This was a well written book with an engaging story and characters I cared about but there were parts I had to put down and walk away from. Dreams of Joy by Lisa See I could not ...
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Tom Jones would be about a third as long and not one-tenth as enjoyable were its fairly thin story enriched by Fielding’s gentle, amused, and worldly-wise commentary. By the time Rose Caylor sat down to write The Journey, she’d been a newspaper reporter, PR agent for the American ...
Favorite quotes include: Our smiles shine across the car and join in a sunbeam of joy and delight. Relief and joy pour through me, like sunshine and starlight and moonbeams, heating me from the inside out, warming my heart. A bunch of little moments, all strung together to make up bigge...
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