Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding

Sunday 17^th November 2013

Number of times almost gave up reading the book 3, number of times questioned why Helen Fielding thought it was necessary to write this book 50, déjà vus’ from Bridget Jones Diary 3680, time lost reading this book 600 minutes, chances of Bridget Jones surviving another sequel 0. 

 

The best thing about this book is that poor Mark Darcy is dead. 

He would have been horrified to see that Bridget had morphed into a cross between Edina Monsoon (Absolutely Fabulous) and Katie Price (after Peter Andre). 

He probably would have divorced her within 5 years and ran off to parts unknown with the kids; while Bridget spends her time gaining and losing weight, drinking and smoking too much and too little, dating and being dumped by toy boys. Not to mention, she would be constantly stalking Mark and the kids through twitter and other forms of social media.

 

The Moment Keeper by Buffy Andrews.

I have not heard or read any of Buffy Andrews books (which is ok as I enjoy reading new and unknown authors).  It seems that The Moment Keeper is her first book (she has also written The Christmas Violin due out next month).  The title, book cover and the premise of the book were captivating and imaginative and so I added the Moment Keeper to my Ibook Library. 

Despite my high expectations for The Moment Keeper, it was disappointing. By the end of the first chapter, I knew exactly how the book would end and I raced through the book to see if I was right…and I was. The idea of having a Moment Keeper is inspiring yet the information on the what, why, how and who a Moment Keeper is very sketchy (a few paragraphs at the beginning of the book and a sentence towards the end).