Karli’s Comments (group member since Feb 23, 2010)

Karli’s comments from the Busy as a Bee Books group.

Assignments are out - time to start posting lists and shopping!!!!

Hello bees! Will be assigning soon, watch your in-box and start your list posting!

Wow!!!! Getting so close to assignments...are you in yet?!?

Yay Elizabeth!!!

Thanks to Tanya who sent out the message...remember to get your info to me by the 22, please!

Woohoo!!! I ❤️ book love!!!! We will keep the sign in open for a few weeks and then I will assign.

It's that time of the year again!

What books are you hoping to find under the tree this year? Would you like to give and receive a package from a Secret Bee?

If you are up for an awesome exchange, please send me your full name and address, as well as Kindle/Nook info if that is the format you'd like to receive. Then, post in this thread a list of books that you'd love to receive and we will have our Boxing Day reveal on December 26.

Have fun!

Wish I was closer - that would be so awesome.

It's my Kasia in 6th!

Kami will be living 25 miles away, about the same as now. The farm she's renting is close to my parents now.

I told Tanya I need to start the holiday exchange soon. That's always fun!

Here we are, looking at the first day of school this week - the summer flew which is typical...I'll have a 6th and 8th grader this year. The school bus comes back on Thursday morning.

I've been trying to navigate my new normals - my dad is declining quickly, and my parents are building a handicapped accessible home to move into, and then my sister will move into the home we grew up in.

My reading life has been a lot of Net Gallies and then working on my own bookshelves, and I have a fantastic neighbor who keeps passing books to me. :) Life plugs away.

The wind is from the south, so it's still around 80 - but it's miserable to be outside, totally overcast and there's so much dirt in the air because it's been dry and the fields are blowing. It's gross.

I'm listening to the wind howl and wrapped in a blanket with my computer in my lap. May 22???

Things are plugging along. We lost our Sofia to our neighbor's dogs...they had 4 huskies and clearly thought that she was a toy. Mike then got me a new kitten for Mother's Day - we named her Angela Sofia and she's doing a fantastic job at healing my hurt heart.

My sister has moved closer to her job and my parents, but further from me, so we're all adjusting to new normals.

My reading and writing worlds are still a bit slow. I've found a few books that I really enjoy, and am doing mostly journalling for writing for now. I'm looking forward to the end of this school year, for summer to be here and my reading spot to be in the sun again!

Welcome Candice!!! Sounds like you have a beautiful world. I love your rationale for returning to the paper books.

I read this last year, and enjoyed it - and then I watched the movie (Kevin Spacey is a genius, IMO)

I thought that the city was evoked really well, and I too want to visit. There's an art college there (Savannah College of Art and Design) that my friend's daughter attends, and my son Gabe is determined he'll go there too - so I guess I should make it there eventually!

I loved the guy who randomly squatted in empty homes, I thought that was hilarious. I also found myself really hoping that Williams would get off. I know that's terrible...

And I LOVE CHABLIS!!!! She is hilarious. I also thought it was fantastic that she played herself in the movie.

I read this book trying to figure out whether I liked it or not - and came out with an "it was OK" feeling, but I believe it was well enough written and interesting enough that it will continue to pop up in my brain. It doesn't feel like a book that you really can be done with too easily.

I think this could have been chosen in our section on unreliable narrators - I'm not sure who to believe and which parts are flights of imagination and which are real, especially in Mathilde's section. That whole half felt as though it was written through a fevered haze. Nothing was clear, some sections seemed too bright, and some just flat out odd.

I don't know who I would recommend this one to - I'm not sorry I read it, but honestly, I don't care to read it ever again.

I read this one several years ago too - but I think the fact that the movie came out in 1991 and was such an iconic film colors nearly all of our readings of this one - and it's not a bad thing when the movie is as well done as it was.

You know what's funny, as I read Kristen characterizing Ripley as a "psychopathic killer" I feel like - No, he really wasn't! - and then I check myself as I reconcile the fact that he was so urbane, so refined that it never FELT psychopathic. It was just...you know...what had to happen to let him move on.

So, even after it's been read, I KNOW he's a total sociopath, I still look back and can't feel he was really so bad. Clearly, an amazing portrayal.

I read this a couple years ago and found it disappointing - I just didn't fall into the magic on the page. I think it may have been a bit ruined for me by , which I found rather bleak.

Hello! Remember me? I can't believe I've almost gotten to lurker status...

In recent days I've finished - one of those iconic, classic chunksters we always mean to get to. Well, clearly, there is a reason we always meant to get there - WOW> so much better than the movie! Why that should shock me is surprising, but I guess that as the movie is one of the most revered ever, I was silly enough to think perhaps it outshone the book. I was obviously very young when I formed that debunked opinion.

I also finished a galley of the (just released!) - this one is really for this generation of mommies...I don't think it will be appreciated by anyone who hasn't sort of been there. Cassie and Sid are sisters in their 30's separated by an ocean. Sid is not so digital. Cassie is totally digital - but they write letters to each other to rekindle their relationship. Cassie scans hers all to save them and...yeah, released to the world (in an actually very understandable way)

So, I thought this was a fun read, and it really did acknowledge the mommy guilt, the Facebook fictions we try to tell the world, and how it can be possible to try reconcile fact with the digital inspired fiction.

Not sure what's next...but I discovered Book Riot's All the Books podcast, and now I'm way too interested in all the new releases. Gah!