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

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

I finished today - it was very readable, but it didn't have that much if a historical feel for me. It was closer to a 3.5, but I opted to bump it to 4 in my rating. Quick read. Will wait to chat about the characters more until after more have read it.

I've been focusing on old Bee books so far this year, finishing and .

I've also finished - I really enjoyed this next installment. It's gotten a lot of mixed reviews, but I really enjoy the character development that Rowling uses, so even though the mystery portion of it wasn't stellar, I enjoyed the read.

I started the Harry Bosch series - mainly because Amy and Garlan are such huge fans, and I tend to like the same books they do. I was really slogging through the first half of , but the second half was great, and now I'm anxiously waiting for the second one to become available at the library!

I thought was a Bee Book - we read a lot of Gaiman over here! But I figured out it wasn't. I thought this was a really good book, I loved the fairy tale aspects, and love his writing style.

I've got and on my currently reading shelf. If I stare at my book hard enough maybe I won't see how badly my house needs me to clean it?

I just got this one on the library site!!! Excited.

@JenB - I read The Thorn Birds in high school, and still remember some of the imagery. It would be an interesting one to re-read as an adult.

I've been reading a lot of Bee books lately and dusting off old threads - it's fun!

I actually liked this one better than The Kite Runner because it was not as painful to read. I have avoided Hosseini because of how disturbed I was after The Kite Runner - I really had to work myself up and was expecting another painful book. And objective part of me can see that this wasn't as good in a literary sense, but I found it much more enjoyable and experience. I thought of Olive Kitteridge - the book was many stories with related characters whose stories basically all stemmed from Pari being given away. I liked how it was done.

I read this a few weeks ago and then realized it was an old bee book and had a thread! Just got a chance to read thru the posts, and I'm with the general view that it was good, but Attachments was better. I really hated the abuse in this one. It was hard for me to read, which means it was well done, but it is awful to see how marginalized Eleanor was in her family, and I hated both her parents for not being there for her, and how she never was valued.

Thanks Margie - it's funny how this type of thing can just make my day. :)

2015 - I'm excited! I own nearly all of these books, so I really SHOULD manage to get at least 12!

1. The School of Essential Ingredients - DONE 1/5/15
2. Lexicon DONE - 1/22/15
3. All the Light We Cannot See DONE - 1/24/15
4. The Engagements DONE - 3/3/15
5. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald DONE - 3/8/15
6. The House at Riverton DONE 4/26/15
7. And the Mountains Echoed - DONE - 1/9/15
8. Among Others DONE - 2/7/15
9. Nobody's Fool
10. The Queen's Fool
11.Child 44
12.In the Woods
13 - The Enchanted - DONE - 3/28/15
14 - Oryx and Crake - DONE - 5/31/15
15 - Fool on the Hill - DONE 7/14/2015


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Holy man, I actually did it!!!! I didn't realize Eleanor and Park was a bee book from 2013, so in the last hour, I pulled it off. :) I'm ridiculously proud of myself.

Now that I've gone through my books I'll have to make my 2015 list.

Oh my lord - 900 pages of non-fiction is too much for me. Kudos to you guys!

That's interesting, and thinking of my own, tiny home town in ND I can see the reality of that statement.

The passage was brutal - and the ending allows a really interesting place for the author to go - but it's a potentially daunting task too. The 2nd book has room to epically fail or keep it going.

The passage was brutal - and the ending allows a really interesting place for the author to go - but it's a potentially daunting task too. The 2nd book has room to epically fail or keep it going.

Your niece sounds brilliant.

I loved Red Rising - there are tons of awesome places it can go with society, class and race. I don't think it felt YA at all either.

I'm pretty sure you're epic, Loretta!!!!

It's so hard to read something I know is painful. Will keep to keep slogging. Makes me wonder sometimes who judges these things.

I'm hoping that as the series progresses we'll get more into the hows and whys of the society.

I'm trying - I'm about 2/3 through, and it's so SHORT page-wise that I really feel like I have to continue. But reading through this thread I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy it.

OK, looked, and if I count my re-read of This is Where I Leave You (which I did!) then I'm at 9.

I am currently reading Blindness (does it ever get better?!?!) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, so if I'm lucky, I'll get to 11.

I did read 13 of the 2014 Bee Books. So that wasn't too bad.