New York: Penguin, (1999.) dj. "Bridget Jones's Diary charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious year, in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Here is the compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of her permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement-a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, people with girlfriends or wives, emotional fuckwits, alcoholics, workaholics, chauvinists, or perverts. And learn to program the VCR." Basis for the movie of the same name starring Rene Zellweger. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-14-028009x.