Adult Book:
Bridget Jones' Diary -by Helen Fielding
1996
In
the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget
confides her hopes, her dreams and her fluctuating weight, not
to mention her consumption of cigarettes. Fielding reveals the
lighter side of despair and self-doubt and also satirizes everything
from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget
when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. This book
is screamingly funny, although you have to be in an irreverant
mood to fully enjoy it.
Children's Book:
The Family from One End Street -by Eve Garnett
1937
The Ruggles family of Number 1, End Street are
the heros of this engaging story. Mr. Ruggles is a garbage man
and Mrs. Ruggles takes in laundry. The hard-working parents are
experts at stretching their meager earnings to feed, clothe and
entertain their seven children. But adventures occur in the most
unexpected places: a baby show, the beach and even at the cinema.
Written by Eve Garnett as social commentary
on the conditions faced by the working poor in the early part
of the century this book is also funny and endearing.
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