Hello, everybody. It's nearly New Years Day where we make resolutions that we can never keep for more than two weeks. To celebrate this, we are going to look at everyone's favourite Singleton's diary. After this we have four books to cover but this will be when I am able to update this story. These chapters are set in 2013.
(Brennan is sitting at her computer desk when Skype starts ringing.)
ANGELA: Brennan, are you there?
BRENNAN: I am Angela. How are the Maldives?
ANGELA: It's hot, which is why we decided to go instead of staying in D.C.
BRENNAN: Fair enough. How was the flight?
ANGELA: Oh, well Michael decided to lie on top of Hodgins and then spat up on me. I managed to get some reading done on the flight though. It's an eighteen-hour flight.
BRENNAN: You must be exhausted.
ANGELA: No, I slept for about ten hours and I spent the next eight reading.
BRENNAN: What did you read?
ANGELA: Bridget Jones' Diary.
BRENNAN: I think I have seen the movie. Cam forced me to a movie night last week.
ANGELA: Well the book is different to the movie. Okay it is about someone writing a diary to make improvements in her life by losing weight, cut down on smoking and drinking, and find the perfect man who is not an alcoholic, workaholic, commitment-phobic, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomaniacs, chauvinists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders and prevents.
BRENNAN: I take it that it doesn't work.
ANGELA: Well, the cigarettes and drinking don't really work out in the end – nor does the weight loss – but after one man, who embodies all of those problems, she finds the one with Mark Darcy, who is played by Colin Firth in the movie and featured in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
BRENNAN: That is interesting Angela but can we get back to the book please.
ANGELA: Have you seen Colin Firth?
BRENNAN: Yes he is a very attractive man.
ANGELA: Anyway, Bridget Jones is in her thirties and she decides to write a diary about her experiences to try to improve her life.
BRENNAN: Why would she need a diary?
ANGELA: It's one way of doing a first-person novel. These were originally columns in a British newspaper that were then adapted into a novel. I have read these columns in an archive and they are set out the same way as the novel. At the start of everyday she lists her weight, alcohol units, amount of cigarettes among others. It's called keeping a track of things to see where you have gone wrong.
BRENNAN: Okay, would you personally recommend it?
ANGELA: It is rather funny and the shenanigans are ridiculous but you cannot help but laugh.
BRENNAN: Okay, I will go on Amazon right now and order a copy.
ANGELA: Anyway, what is your New Year Resolution?
BRENNAN: Finding a balance between my family and work. What about you?
ANGELA: I don't know. Maybe not eat as much peanut butter. I spend enough time with my child.
BRENNAN: That sounds like a good plan.
Next book: The Da Vinci Code. I am so busy this week catching up on schoolwork and revision, so the updating of my other stories may be a little sparse this week.
