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

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

I'm about 200 pages in, and will get back to it as soon as I finish my current book. Night Film doesn't keep me riveted, but I do enjoy it.

Yep, same here - I downloaded it last night.

I've never heard of Louisa Penny, but now I'm adding to my tbr!

I've been pretty add when it comes to my books lately - I've started several that I've put down. I know I'll finish because I'm enjoying them, but I need something a little less dense than The Angel's Game and Night Film. I picked up Survivor and that one seems to fit my attention span this weekend.

We have wind chills below zero already - I second the Boo, and throw in a Hiss.

I think of you being transported to Alaska during a hot and humid summer in Houston. ;). Sounds like good therapy.

I always loved that part of the 10 Commandments - "So let it be written, so let it be done!" I want that power!

Hello - I've been having issues with my eyes lately, (well, it's been ongoing for a few years) but I recently saw a different optometrist as my old one is retiring (he's nearly 70) and while this feels a bit like a commercial, I wanted to share with my bookish friends…

I have issues with my eyes - blurriness, sore, itchy, floaters…I've been really, really loving my e-readers because it gets hard for me to read print books because the fonts are typically so small. MMPB are pretty much out for me now.

At my last appointment, the doctor looked at my history, and said, OK, here's the deal. I don't think you just "happen" to have dry itchy eyes every time you come in. I think you actually have a problem with it. He asked about various auto-immune conditions (I have IBS, some arthritis and hypothyroidism) and said the same things that cause that can also cause the tear glands to under produce. I am YOUNG (I think) - I just turned 36. My vision isn't actually that bad. But the eye soreness is an issue, especially for someone who works on a computer at least 8 - 10 hours/day and reads for 1 - 2 after that.

He put me on a steroid eye-drop burst for a month, and Restasis eye-drops long term. I'm seeing some improvement now, just 2 weeks in to the course of treatment. So…as I know you all have screen and page time, I thought I'd share.

Slowly working on - it's a dense read, and I have the hardcover from the library…I'm loving the "exhibits" in it, but my eyes are having issues reading it on an extended basis.

well, since we've all been compelled to read it by Steph's love, I think that by default it becomes a Bee book and counts.

So let it be written, so let it be done!

(OK, I have no authority. But it makes sense to me…)

It's not?!? I guess I thought so too. Maybe it's just that it's one of Steph's faves?

I love that I've totally got you hooked.

Good luck with the move. Even when it's voluntary it's stressful. Fingers crossed it's all going to be for the best.

I'm reading night film now. It's intriguing, but it does seem long.

I started Omens by Kelley Armstrong yesterday...nearly done. In a way this book reminds me of Sarah Addison Allen but more sinister.

First stop is always the clearance section. Then if I can still carry so etching I move on...

And now I've passed it to my sister who can't put it down either.

I'm so jealous of you people with HPB in you're area. It's a 6 hour drive for me. :(

I have finished - I totally loved it, the language was amazing, and I found myself savoring it and had the next one, purchased before I'd finished. This is one I want in both ebook and paper format - for now I have them both in paper.

I read next, over the course of a few nights. This was a sweet book - full of love, angst, mystery and forgiveness. It's got a thread of Christian lit through it, but never gets preachy. Just a lovely story.

I also read and did post in the thread - I really enjoyed it, and couldn't put it down - to the exclusion of everything else! I haven't been that sucked into a book in a long time. I am not sure if it was that good, or if the dreary, cloudy, windy November day had something to do with it.

I've started , but am taking it slowly and adding some other books in. The writing needs to be savored rather than devoured I find.

I actually couldn't put this one down. I really found this compulsively readable, and it's actually NOT a good thing when married mom of two who works full time finishes a 400 page book in 2 days. :( Bad willpower on my part.

I disagree that it wasn't about sisters. I guess as a first person narrative, I expected it was going to be the relationship from Daisy/Kate's perspective. However, as flawed a narrator as she was, I think it did a good job of portraying a relationship between sisters who are so alike and so different. I found it fairly realistic - the narration was NOT linear, which I found frustrating at times. It was fairly stream of consciousness as far as the writing style goes, which honestly reads like my journalling to some degree. I try to finish a story, and mean for it to be linear initially, but it's just not.

So, I DID enjoy this one. Just not the fact that I REALLY couldn't put it down.