“Sunday 1 January. 9st 3 [but post-Christmas], alcohol units 14 [but effectively covers 2 days as 4 hours of party was on New Year’s Day], cigarettes 22, calories 5424.”
From ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ by Helen Fielding

Try one of these #FirstParas & discover a new author:-
‘Moon Tiger’ by Penelope Lively
‘Freedom’ by Jonathan Franzen
‘The Sense of an Ending’ by Julian Barnes

And if you’d like to tweet a link to THIS post, here’s my suggested tweet:
#Books #FirstPara BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY by Helen Fielding http://wp.me/p5gEM4-7S via @SandraDanby