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Original Title:	Does My Bum Look Big in This?
ISBN:	034068948X (ISBN13: 9780340689486)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Andy Warner, Jacqueline M. Pane, Carlo Pozzi, Bossy Bowyer

Does My Bum Look Big in This?

Arabella Weir

Paperback | Pages: 212 pages

Rating: 3.03 | 808 Users | 78 Reviews

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Title	:	Does My Bum Look Big in This?
Author	:	Arabella Weir
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 212 pages
Published	:	March 5th 1998 by Distribooks (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Fiction. Romance. Humor. Novels

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For once, I'll provide a synopsis, since whoever was supposed to do so obviously did not. So, this book is written diary style, the diary writer being one Jacqueline M. Pane, a woman in her mid-30s with cripplingly low self-esteem. Sounds a lot like Bridget Jones's Diary, I know. And, if I remember correctly, the two have a lot in common, but I haven't read Bridget Jones's Diary in many years so I can't make a better comparison than that.

Anyway, I see that a LOT of people who bothered to review Does My Bum Look Big In This? didn't like it very much, or even hated it, and the fact of the matter is ... I get it. But I personally find the complete and utter lack of self-esteem, the paranoia, the cluelessness, all of it, to be very funny! I mean, no one really thinks like this. (Well, I'm sure there are some, but no one I know so I guess I can chuckle at it!) But if people thinks it's so over-the-top it loses its funny, I get it. That's how I feel about John Oliver about 10 minutes in. I won't judge.

I also feel the need to admit that there might be a touch of nostalgia somewhere in my four stars. My brother went to London for his 26th birthday and brought back a copy of this book for me. 16-year-old me was so tickled, I read a diary entry every day to my then-best friend over the phone, and we'd crack up over it. (I ultimately wound up loaning that copy to some bum I was friends with in college and never got it back. I bought a replacement copy when I went to London myself, which upset her but she still didn't return it so I don't know why she was mad about it.) I was tickled rereading it because there is some (not much) sexy-type stuff that happens, that may or may not have been over the heads of two high schoolers who hadn't even been kissed yet. :)

So, in short, funny haha, definitely keeping.

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Ratings: 3.03 From 808 Users | 78 Reviews

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Absolutely hilarious book! Laugh out loud kind of book!

I was trying to think of the worst book I've read, and this won. If I was able to work out how to give it no stars au would have done



I really did not like this book and found it a struggle to finish, not because it was badly written or hard to read but because the main character was so unbelievable, so negative and so paranoid. Written as a diary of a 30-something woman working in an industry where looks are apparantly important (not convinced myself but who knows) the level of negativity, self-critism, delusion and outright paranoia was that high it just felt like one book length stereotype taken to extremes. It was only in

A fluffy readJacqueline M. Pane has serious self esteem issues. The book starts off fairly charming, but gradually I just ended up feeling irritated with her. It reminds me of Bridget Jones, but slightly less... Good. The ending was predictable. Arabella Weir is a great author, however I much preferred Onwards and Upwards. Still an easy, quick read with some laugh out loud moments.

Despite the awful title I thought I'd give this book a go as Joanna Lumley gave it a good quote saying "a very funny and unexpectedly touching novel." Well Joanna, despite loving a lot of what you do yourself - I'm not going to trust your book reviews! I couldn't find anything "touching" in it at all. It was written as a diary of a 30-something year old, Jaqueline, but she is just so annoyingly paranoid about things that you just dont believe it. It really comes across as being far too OTT and a

This book failed the 50 Page Rule (I actually gave it closer to 80, in the hopes that it would improve). The protagonist is unbearably stupid and I wanted to smack her upside the head. She's clearly getting attention from very nice men, and assumes that it's all a gag. I have to assume so, too, given that she's such a pain. Arabella Weir is such a joy to hear and see on television; I would have loved if she had injected some of that wit into this story. I had to give up on it.