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Welcome to the "Bridget Jones's Diary" installment of Lemondrop's Book Club. Bridget's skirt-flirting with Daniel Cleaver, her enormous panties, and the reindeer-sweater-wearing Mark Darcy have cemented a place in the annals of romance-novel history. This month, we'll discuss the imperfectly perfect heroine's journaling, her love life, the embarrassment that is her parents, and debate the merits of the movie versus the novel.
Even if you haven't read the book, you can answer the questions if you've seen the movie. Please chime in even if you haven't seen or read either! Everyone who leaves a comment through November 15 is eligible to win one of 10 copies of "Doodle While You Work: Erase the Tedium" by Staffan Gnosspelius or one of two "Days of Our Lives" prize packs -- info here.
Today's questions all deal with what it's like to keep a diary -- something many of us have started at least once or twice (or 90 times) in our lives. Leave your answers in the comments and come back often for the discussion. And don't miss Friday's installment, when we'll have a Q&A with "Bridget" author Helen Fielding herself.
* What Wills and Will Nots listed at the front of Bridget's diary apply to you? What Wills and Will Nots do you plan to keep for this coming year or have tried to keep the year past?
* Give the month of October a title. ("Breast Cancer Awareness Month" is already taken by the way.) For example, Bridget's October is titled "Date with Darcy."
* Find a diet that fits in with everything you eat for a day. If one doesn't exist, create it and give it a name.
* Optional homework assignment: Keep a diary like Bridget's and come back in a couple of days to share an excerpt from your diary.
Leave a comment and check back tomorrow when we delve into Bridget's love life. (Hey, Halloween is coming -- it's OK if things get a little scary.)
About the moderator: Beatrice Underwood-Sweet is a voracious reader of anything and everything, including the backs of cereal boxes. Her other hobbies include knitting, writing and ice skating, often while reading. She reviews books at My Kingdom for a Book.
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Thursday 22 October
By Sandy
The raging in-tray is the my downfall year after year. My go to "Will" is losing weight---I lose some but then it finds its way back and brings friends. This may be due to my daily consumption of chips and homemade salsa. I'm calling my diet the "Devil's Diet", since my family calls my salsa "food from hell".
The upcoming holidays and I are not on speaking terms, so I would title the month of October "Serenity Now". I'm going to need lots serenity to get through the rest of the year.
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Saturday 24 October
By Beatrice
I think my month has been Sleepless in October!
As for Wills, I will finish my novel! I will stay organized! Will not? Hmm...I will not let things pile up until it seems like there is a mountain of things to clean!
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Sunday 25 October
By Janice Wright
I've started diaries numerous times, only to give them up after a couple of weeks.
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Sunday 25 October
By Beatrice
I do that, too, Janice! I love journals, though. I generally come back to them when something exciting or worrying is happening in my life. I think that you keep a journal for yourself, and there's no reason to beat yourself up(so to speak) if you don't write in it every day. I end up finding that I wish I HAD written something about certain events in my life. No harm in having it handy at the very least!
Tuesday 27 October
By trudy
i'm not sure one should ever put anything in writing! Remember what happened when Mark Darcy read Bridget's? But from a historical perspective, diaries are a treasure trove. If you do keep a diary, be sure to include information on weather, what's going on in the world, including names of famous people and your opinions of them, etc. two hundred years from now, some budding historian/researcher will get hold of your papers to find out what life was really like in the early 2000s.
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Sunday 08 November
By KikiFreak
October is renamed the Month My Football Team Continually Let Me Down. My diet would be named the chocolate and burger diet. In the coming year I would strive to keep my temper and like Bridget, not date f*ckwits.
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Monday 09 November
By Karen Gonyea
Looks wonderful :)
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Wednesday 11 November
By Julie Hawkins
I renamed October: Lose the 10 pounds You'll Gain at Xmas Now Month!
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Sunday 15 November
By Heather C
I've read the book, but it's been a while.
Let's see...
Wills
- will stick to diet at least 3 days out of 5.
- will work out at home 3 times a week.
Will Nots
- will not think it's all about me, all the time.
- will not stay up all night more than once a month. Getting too old for that.
October is Confuse Your Temperature Control Unit Month.
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Sunday 15 November
By Chrysa
October is the month to prepare to eat too much leftover Halloween candy.
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Sunday 15 November
By Lily Kwan
I'm a fan of the "see food" diet. ;0D
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Sunday 15 November
By Shannon
I like the Dr. Oz diet
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Sunday 15 November
By Beatrice
Hehe, I like the "see food" diet, too Lily!
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Sunday 15 November
By Sand
I probably have about a dozen diaries I have started in my life. All of them have the first couple of pages full and then the rest of it is blank.
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Sunday 15 November
By David Patterson
I like the seafood diet!
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