Hi Joy,
I seemed to have found them by playing around. I type the : dots and it brings up a few smileys, not sure how to get every emoticon, but if you type a letter or word in front it brings up lots of different ones, depending on the letter you type in!
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Suzanne
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The last 3 may be my signature from now on - they are Joy - found by using a :j
Thanks very much Suzanne. (also pleased with the ability to look up the personal name of post above me without losing what I just typed !)
Reading Child In Time by Ian McEwan. Beautiful but dark. But I have this thing where I stack about 8 books by the bed and try and read them all bit by bit and never really get into the flow of any of them. I have to be on holiday to do that. I can recommend Gangsta Granny by David Walliams. Me and the 7yo love reading that at bedtime.
Reading Lemony Snicket to Chloe at the minute … I might be a tiny bit (3 books) ahead of her though:-)
I read “We’re going on a Bear Hunt” to my grandson at the week end
Jan
yep it’s a much better forum, im liking it 
Story of my life 
Not about reading at all…just playing with the just discovered symbols…now off to bed
yes I really like that symbol and I would be off to bed to read my book “the Stone Boy” but have to go to Country Markets tomorrow at the crack of dawn as someone wants to buy some of my pendants and some of the pendants are not price labelled and everything has to have a label… 
That’s enough of that. Must put some label paper in the printer, print the labels, stick them on,
I think I liked Lemony Snicket more than my daughter did, she seems to be more into straight fantasy at the mo (Tolkien etc). Only got a chapter into Skulduggery Pleasance with her - I think I’ll have to borrow it coz I’m hooked even if she isn’t!
I read that one so many times to my kids I’m very, very pleased that they’re too old for it now!!!
humph. can’t find an emoticon for heather or nifty! quite like ocean though 
or beer perhaps? 
to keep on topic it should be 
I’m reading Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper - not my usual read but I found it in a charity shop for 20p and I can’t put it down. Am also reading Diary of a Provincial Lady on my Kindle - utterly hilarious. Was sad to read the last ever Cazelet Chronicles book a few weeks ago.
Some great recommendations here, I shall have to make notes. I’m reading Shakespeare’s Mistress and really enjoying it, a charity shop bargain last week here too Amanda!
I’m reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, after reading so much about it and how it polarised opinion I thought I’d better give it a go myself.
Also reading lots of gardening books including The Bold and Brilliant Garden by Sarah Raven.
I’ve just read Lisa Gardner “love you more”.
It was so good that I was 2 hours late getting up this morning as once I’d picked my Kindle up, to read a chapter with my coffee, I read and read and read.
Trouble is… now I’ve finished it I haven’t got any more of it to read. That is the problem with a really good book 
I am working my way through Iain M. Bank’s sci fi novels at the moment.
Have read them all before but they are very complicated and I am really enjoying and understanding them much better the second time around.
Just getting into the third one “Use of Weapons”.
I’ve just finished ‘The Quarry’ by Iain Banks ( in non sci fi mode) - read with sadness as his last.
I love Ian Banks - but can’t get into his sci fi novels at all. Enjoyed Gone Girl and My Sisters Keeper also both charity shop finds.
I an currently reading Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese, set in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950’s, quite slow going at the moment.
Yes I know, very sad about Iain Banks dying last year.
No more Culture novels. So sad. 
I’ve read some of his non-sci fi novels too, and they are very complicated too, but very enjoyable.
I did read Gone Girl last year and was seriously unimpressed but so many people loved it. I think I was expecting so much more because of the good reviews it received.
I like the sound of Deborah’s Cutting For Stone though.