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I hope you enjoy your new books, Hayley. The first two sound pretty interesting. I've heard good things about Patrick Ness' books and I loved The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

I hope you enjoy your new books !

Sorry to hear you're not enjoying Tithe so much. I hope you'll enjoy your newly bought books .

x In the Netherlands the government pays for some of it, the lecture money is not much more than when you're a bacherlor student. It is normal to do a master and barely anyone stops after their bachelor. Companies are keener to hire students with a master's degree and since that's most students I think it's hard to get a good job here with just a bachelor degree. It's interesting how different it is in different countries, in the US and UK getting a master's degree isn't something that happens as often, or so I've heard from my dad and other people. It's also a lot more expensive than here. I hope our system doesn't change, I like what we've got here. Anyway, it's a tough choice to make for you, I hope you make one that you're comfortable with .

I've never been able to access Iplayer from the Netherlands, unfortunately. Shame because the BBC has some great series.

I love the Discworld books! I also like the Watch, as well as Rincewind and the three witches, Death's great too, I love his character. I've read so far the first 22 books in the series (according to GoodReads). I'm reading them in series order. I do find though that I have to be in a certain mood for them, and when I've read one I then want to read something else. I love Terry Pratchett's humour, the books are great. I also like the three TV films they've made.

Great to hear you'll all be joining ! Happy Reading !

Thanks, Chrissy !

The next read-a-thon will take place on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of January, so tomorrow and the weekend. Is anyone joining me?

I wish you lots of fun, Hayley ! A lot has been going on the past week so I'm glad to try and rest for a bit. Yesterday we had two unexpected visits of family, which is difficult for me to handle.

I wish you a good reading year in 2014!

Mmm, these cookies are delicious! Happy Reading in 2014, Janet ! I hope it'll be a good reading year for you. Great how you've split your TBR up into years, you must've been keeping track for a while!

x Ken Grimwood . Link to the Kindle ebook of Replay by Ken Grimwood

I'm glad you liked the third book of the Millennium series! Great review . I have all three on my TBR.

x Thanks ! I hope the same for you . x x Thanks . Happy New Year to you too .

Awwww that's so sad. I hope she gets well soon. We've bought a hometrainer and I've been on it almost every day, I keep increasing the level of resistance to see what I can handle. So far I'm quite pleased with the progress .

Nick Spalding - Love... 3: Love Under Different Skies Genre: Chick-lit Format: Paperback Pages: 384 Synopsis: (no synopsis since part of a series) My thoughts: This book was recently released in paperback and I was eager to see how the series would continue, so I didn't wait long with starting to read it. I quite liked this book. I already loved the characters, and I enjoyed reading about them and their adventures. Most of the book takes place in Australia (not Britain like the previous two books), and I quite enjoyed reading how the characters experienced being in Australia. I enjoyed the culture references, to both British and Australian things, as well a few references to bits of technology (ie. an Iphone). It's quite a contemporary book in that sense. The book is written from two different viewpoints (like the two books before it), in the form of diary entries and blog posts. Sometimes the characters will compare something that's happened to something worse or they'll exaggerate. I liked this and found it quite refreshing. I certainly wouldn't want to read it all the time but it makes for a nice change when I'm in the right mood. Overall I really liked this book. I loved the ending, to me it's a fitting conclusion to the series. I have no idea if the author intends to write more books in this series or not, and all three can easily be read seperately, although you'll miss out on a few references to earlier events. The book does use some explicit language and there are also references to sex. Rating: ***** (10/10)

Ann M. Martin, Raina Telgemeier - The Babysitter's Club Graphix 1: Kristy's Great Idea Genre: Children's, YA, chick-lit Format: Kindle Pages: ~180? Synopsis (GoodReads):In this new graphic novel edition of the very first BABY-SITTERS CLUB book, Raina Telgemeier captures all the drama of the original in warm, spunky illustrations. Witness Kristy's eureka moment, when she gets the idea for a "baby-sitters club" and enlists her best friends, shy Mary Anne and artistic Claudia, in an exciting new venture. But the baby-sitting business isn't the only thing absorbing their attention: Kristy is having a hard time accepting her stepdad-to-be, and the newest member of the gang, Stacey, seems to be hiding a secret. My thoughts: I recently found out that there existed a graphic novel of the Babysitter's Club, so I bought it and started to read it. I have already done a review on the original book, Kristy's Great Idea, in which I praised the story and characters. Needless to say I still love them, and this series will always have a special place in my heart for me. The illustrations show much of the story, I couldn't find anything important missing. I loved the illustrations, they are beautiful and have a distinct style to them (in my opinion). It was great to see in particular the different characters. I found it not hard to tell the characters apart (a complaint I sometimes have with graphic novels, comics and manga), of course though I know the characters pretty well so that helps I guess. My only complaint with this book was the execution of the Kindle version. You see a page with illustrations (usually several of them), and then can zoom in and flick through them individually. Except that sometimes bits get cut off or mixed together in this zoomed in version. I've not read a graphic novel on the Kindle before so I don't know if it's a common problem or not. This was really my only complaint with the book. I loved everything else! Rating: ***** (10/10)

Thanks! I always enjoy reading your thread too .

I hope 2014 will be a good reading year for you, Julie !

I hope you have a good reading year in 2014, Hayley !

I hope 2014 will be a better reading year for you, Raven .

I hope 2014 will be a good reading year for you, Charles !

Happy Reading in 2014 !