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Read Pride and Prejudice online. And Bridget Jones sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, will be released this fall.

So, then there's upcoming book, Midlife Crisis at 30 by Lia Macko and Kerry Rubin, which focuses on late 20- and 30-something women's realization that having it all may not be what it's cracked up to be, with pressures of appearances, work, love, and motherhood giving them agita - the Post outlines it all. One NYC psychologist does seem many young female patients and says that "The phenomenon is more grave in urban areas. The more stressful the lifestyle, the more this is salient." After reading the article, Gothamist wondered when we could check ourselves into Silver Hill, because clearly we have some upsetting times ahead. AND Sex and the City ended! Luckily, we have The Book of Ages: 30 to remind us that 30 is but a stop along the way to great things...sometimes.

whatevs.org agrees Renee looks better like this. Hopefully, at some point, everyone will stop obsessing about her weight and looks and focus on her acting, but till then, here's the skinny vs. healthy Renee comparison by iBlog/Jingle Blog.

We didn't want it to be this way, but Gothamist must post this photograph of Renee Zellweger at LAX that was in the Post today. The Post notes that she seems perhaps "voluptuous", making us all the more crazy that our society is obsessed with celebrity weight and that we are contributing to that. But our stance is that Renee should keep some of the weight that she's gained for the second Bridget Jones movie that she's filming now. She looks good now, versus skeletony and totally flat at the Oscars. We're wondering if the Thai prison subplot of the book is included and worry that she'll waste away into nothingness for that part.

It's big news that Renee Zellweger is gaining weight for the Bridget Jones' Diary sequel. The AP reports Zellweger as saying, "It's really just math. I've been eating lots of really fattening food." Like the first course of a four course breakfast being "four slices of toast and cream cheese." And she says she'll lose the weight by, again, "doing the math."

- Embark on an "exit interview" after a failed date, so women know how and where their "product" went wrong

- And, yes, it's true, we're looking for advertisers AND having another happy hour.

Renee Zellweger has agreed to play Bridget Jones once again for the sequel, and she will indeed pack on the pounds: The Age reports that on top of her $15 million salary, Renee will get another $225,000 per kilo she adds to her weight. Gothamist has mixed opinions about this. We feel that her performance in Bridget Jones was brilliant, but since she's gone totally anorexic post-Bridget Jones, we're concerned that she'll starve herself so much after making the sequel that her kidneys will fall and she'll be walking around with an IV drip; we seriously think her body image has turned cuckoo after making BJD - her skinny is scary. We hope her new boyfriend, Jack White, will be a mensch and (a) stick with her while she gains the weight and (b) convince her that she doesn't need to lose all of it. It seemed that even Mya could have snapped Renee in two in Chicago.

Earlier this week, Gothamist made an evening of two of our favorites things: Brooklyn and photobloggers. Continuing a tradition of meeting bloggers,we were excited when Rion suggested that we meet with Lauraholder, 990000, Brooklynkid, and Stuntlab at Williamsburg bar Red & Black, which is also named of the book Jen is trying to slog through.

Daily News speaks with Peyton Reed, director of the upcoming Down With Love, a throwback to the "sex" comedies of the late 50s and early 60s, like Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, and That Touch of Mink.

Gothamist has been hearing a lot about Jasper Fforde lately, and Newsday has a feature about the British author (whose background includes stints as a film cameraman and living in a family of Oxonians). His books are described thusly:

">Bridget Jones' Diary, ostensibly inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, was truly sparked by Davies' seminal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for the BBC, which launched Colin Firth as a sex symbol and gave him the opportunity to play Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones the film, a character inspired by Firth's portrayal of Mr. Darcy in P&P...wait, this is Charlie Kaufman territory.

NY Post article about Renee Zellweger's alleged agreement to star in the sequel to Bright Jones' Diary, as well as gain weight for the role. This article has all the hallmarks of pure British tabloidism - overblown metaphor when talking about her salary in correlation to her weight, and then complete non-sensicalness when essentially admitting that they don't know how much weight she has to gain.