"Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy" by Helen Fielding

I really enjoyed this third installment of Bridget Jones' diaries. Although not as funny as the first two, this story of the middle-aged and newly widowed Bridget is heartwarming and entertaining.

We follow her around as five years after her husband's untimely death, Bridget still learns how to cope with grief, raise two little children, have a semblance of a career, and finally dares to dream about falling in love again. Readers who enjoyed the first two installments of "The Diaries" will undoubtedly connect with the themes in this third book as well. Fielding with her signature humor examines the pressures of parenting, aging, dating much younger men, and modern women's ridiculous pursuit of being a perfect and independent mother/daughter/lover/career woman/friend and more. I thoroughly enjoyed this book: it made me laugh, cry, and everything in between. I could really connect with the main character and understand her thinking.