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x My boyfriend has his birthday on the 25th and he's never really liked it. Despite the fact that his birthday is on Christmas he's never been given, when he was young, twice as many presents or anything, he might have been given the same amount as everybody else. He's always had to share his special day with the Christmas meal and the Christmas presents. This year he is here for Christmas and we're going to focus a seperate day on his birthday dinner (traditionally in my family we get to pick one dinner meal for our birthday) and his presents.

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones 3: Mad About The Boy Genre: Chick-lit Format: Paperback Pages: 390 Synopsis: (no synopsis since it's part of a series) My thoughts: I recently finished the second Bridget Jones book and really loved it, so I was eager to read the third book. This is a great book! It takes place quite a few years after the second one, in 2012-2013. What has happened in between the two books, gradually unfolds over the course of the story. At first I found this a bit difficult, I really wanted to know what had happened! But then things became clearer and clearer, so this was all solved. I really enjoyed reading this book. One thing I missed was, it was not explained what happened with one of the characters from the previous books, or maybe I just missed it. Other than that, I loved all the other characters. It was really interesting to read about them, Bridget in particular. She's such a great character! Since the book takes place in a 'nowadays' setting, technology plays a role in the story and I really enjoyed this. I don't know how it'll stand up in ten or twenty years time, when technology might be all different, but for now it was really enjoyable. I don't read a lot of books that talk about technology like this, it usually doesn't play much of a role in the stories that I read. So I quite enjoyed this contemporary setting (I do read contemporary books, it's just that usually technology doesn't play much of a role or isn't mentioned too much). If you liked the first two Bridget Jones books, you'll like this one too, in my opinion. It's Bridget! I did feel that this book was perhaps slightly more serious than the other two, in parts, but personally I didn't mind this in the least. Overall I highly recommend this book and the series made it onto my favourites list. Rating: ***** (10/10)

Thanks, all of you !

It sounds like you had a nice reading year, Ian! I love Hyperion too. I plan to re-read it (in English for the first time) in a while, I just need to get in the mood (the omnibus edition is big and heavy..). I hope your next reading year will be good too .

Thanks so much for all your replies ! I'm glad you like it.

Great review! I'm really glad you enjoyed this one . It's on my list of favourite books.

I haven't read yet Kiss River or Keeper of the Light but I really liked Brass Ring and The Shadow Wife. I hope you will read them and enjoy them !

Those deals sound really good!

Personally I think robots will be very important in our future so I think it's good Google's investing in them. I just hope they do good things with it. EDIT: My dad works a lot with / on robots and was recently in the news on TV to comment on Google's investment. He works on for example an eye surgery robot, a home and care robot (AMIGO), and others.

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I'm glad you had a great day!! The books sound wonderful, I hope you enjoy them .

x I hope you get some nice presents !

Great review ! I have this on my TBR, glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks . I hope you get to read some more of her books in 2014, all the ones I've read so far I've loved (though I prefer some over others). I plan to read more by her in 2014 too.

x That's so nice ! My parents met at 13 too I think, and my mum's and dad's parents met their other halves in their teen years as well. (EDIT: Just to clarify, when I mean their other halves, I mean to say that my mum's mother met my mum's father, and my dad's mother met my dad's father, when they were all young. Just in case that caused confusion.)

x I'm glad to hear that, thanks ! Already a bit more is explained, the book is really good so far. x x Awww I hope your mojo feels better soon .

Thanks very much ! I've saved it on my computer for easy reference.

I hope the knee surgery goes well . I hope your voice gets better soon, it's not nice at all when you can't talk!

x You're welcome !

Favourite reads Last edited: 01-03-2015. Fantasy David B. Coe - The Lontobyn Chronicles series James Clemens - The Banned and the Banished series Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson - The Wheel of Time series Peter V. Brett - The Demon Cycle series Terry Pratchett Ursula K. Le Guin - Earthsea Cycle 1-4: The Earthsea Quartet Joanne Harris - Runemarks 1: Runemarks Karen Miller Trudi Canavan Yahtzee Croshaw George R. R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire series Blake Charlton - Spellwright 1: Spellwright Anne McCaffrey - The Dragonriders of Pern series Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth 1: Wizard's First Rule Maria V. Snyder - Study series and Glass series Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games series Veronica Roth - The Divergent series (including the Four stories) J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter series Geronimo Stilton (and others) Science-fiction Tad Williams - Otherland series Ernest Cline - Ready Player One Scott Meyer - Magic 2.0 series Douglas Adams - The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy series Dan Simmons - Hyperion 1-2: The Hyperion Omnibus Peter F. Hamilton, in particular The Night's Dawn series Elizabeth Moon - The Speed of Dark Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon Matt Haig - The Humans Arthur C. Clarke - The Other Side of the Sky Iain M. Banks Thea Beckman - De Toekomsttrilogie series Isabel Hoving - De Gevleugelde Kat Joe Haldeman Contemporary Fiction Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World Jodi Picoult Diane Chamberlain Catherine Ryan Hyde Kristin Hannah - Home Front Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife Guillaume Musso - Het Grote Gemis (Seras-tu là?) Giselle Green - Little Miracles Erica James - It's the Little Things Erica James - Promises, Promises Jane Green - The Patchwork Marriage Lesley Pearse - Father Unknown Lesley Pearse - Till We Meet Again Kaui Hart Hemmings - The Descendants Laura Elliott - Stolen Child Nathan Filer - The Shock of the Fall Garth Stein - The Art of Racing in the Rain Graeme Simsion - Don Tillman 1: The Rosie Project Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Thea Beckman - Wonderkinderen Carry Slee Cynthia Voigt - Tillerman Cycle 1-4: De Tillermans Gabrielle Zevin - Memoirs of Teenage Amnesiac Rainbow Rowell A. S. King Ruth Thomas - De Weglopers (The Runaways) Jacques Vriens, in particular: Een Bende in de Bovenbouw and Het Raadsel Van De Regenboog Roald Dahl's children's books, in particular: The Witches and Matilda Lieneke Dijkzeul - Een Muis Met Klauwen Annie M.G. Schmidt Dirk Verroen and Jet Boeke - De Liefste Poes Van De Wereld Historical Fiction Thea Beckman Jean M. Auel - Earth's Children series Paul Gallico - Jennie Clive Woodall - One for Sorrow, Two for Joy Penny Vincenzi Markus Zusak - The Book Thief Literature Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre Anna Blaman - Op Leven en Dood George Orwell - Animal Farm Chick-lit Sophie Kinsella Melanie Rose - Could It Be Magic? Melanie Rose - Down to Earth Melissa Nathan - The Nanny Julie Cohen - Girl from Mars Sinéad Moriarty - Emma Huntington series Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones series Chris Manby - Getting Personal Sarah Webb - Take a Chance Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook 1: The Notebook Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook 2: The Wedding Ann M. Martin - The BabySitter's Club series and related books Virginia Andrews Dorothy Koomson - My Best Friend's Girl Holly Smale - Geek Girl series Horror Stephen King, in particular IT and Carrie R. L. Stein, particularly the various Fear Street series Detectives A. C. Baantjer A. C. Baantjer and Simon de Waal - De Waal & Baantjer series Agatha Christie Manga Masami Tsuda - Kare Kano series Ken Akamatsu - Love Hina series Natsuki Takaya - Fruits Basket series Keiko Tobe - With the Light series Kouji Seo - Suzuka series Biographies Gunilla Gerland - A Real Person John Grogan - Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog Information Martine Delfos - Een Vreemde Wereld Stan Spencer - The Diet Dropout’s Guide to Natural Weight Loss: Find Your Easiest Path to Naturally Thin Elisabeth Wilson - Stress Proof Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas Ian Ford - A Field Guide to Earthlings: An Autistic/Asperger View of Neurotypical Behavior Thea Beckman and Others - Het Schrijversboek Paul Arnoldussen - Die Van Hiernaast En Van De Overkant: Over Engelse Drop, Straf En Beesten In Europa Various Authors - Waanzinnig om te Weten series (Horrible Histories, Horrible Science...)

x Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it as much as you'd hoped. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying Gulp though .

x It sounds good! And yes ! Let's hope we enjoy them, instead. What I do with the quotes is edit them in BBmode, split the quote in ie. two portions, copying the [ quote = name ] and putting that above the second portion. I put a [ / quote ] after the first and second portion. My comments go inbetween the quotes. So you'd have two quotes wrapped in [ quote = name ] and [ / quote ] tags. I don't know if you can follow what I'm saying, just trying to help.

Only if it doesn't cost you too much time and effort , but I'd very much appreciate it.

Awwww! He's beautiful .

x Me neither! x x I wouldn't mind it if you did this, it should clarify things.