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

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

It's 1/3 cup mayo, and it is medicinal for unpregnant bellies as well, as mine will attest to. (There is some in my fridge now)

Here's a "medicinal" pregnancy recipe for Pickle Dip to eat with the chips. :)

1 block of cream cheese
1/3 mayo
2 cups chopped pickles (reserve juice)

Beat together cream cheese and mayo. Add pickle juice until the mix is the consistency of sour cream. mix in your chopped pickles - then eat with potato chips.

Evil, but guaranteed to make you feel better!

Oh Tanya, that's awful - you're allowed to complain. I agree pregnancy is no fun. I wasn't one of those women who loved it either. You're right though - babies are cute and wonderful and it's worth it. But you can whine that it sucks too.

Utterly sick. :( Thank you for posting and letting us know that you're OK. Thoughts and prayers. What senselessness.

I did our grocery shopping and a wine run yesterday as well. And of course the library stack. So I'll enjoy our day (I really do expect to be home tomorrow). Mike said that Siberia is getting the 60s and 70s we'd normally be getting and we're getting the never ending winter...

I do find the Monday Storm Day pattern to be amusing though.

I finished yesterday and only gave it 3 stars. I was really enjoying it in the middle, but it ended up just gratuitously violent, IMO. I don't plan on moving on in this series.

I finished this one up last week. I didn't find it as similar to the Stand as I was sort of hoping. It was OK, I totally agree with Tricia, that it could have been a couple hundred pages shorter. I will probably read the Twelve after the final book comes out - it drives me nuts to wait for books.

I read Stolen Prey last week which I really enjoyed. Love all of John Sandford's stuff, and I moved on to Shock Wave. I've got a stack from the library I'm working through. We're supposed to get another blizzard today and tomorrow, so I may have another snow day to read. However, I do object to a snow day on April 15. That's excessive.

I love dkm too - my husband has his ringtone for me set with one of their songs. Love the lumineers too. Sounds like a great time!

I finished South of Broad yesterday, and Pat Conroy has become one of my favorite authors in short order. Another 5 stars from me.

I grabbed Me Before You at the library tonight, I was very excited to find it on the shelf!

I also checked out a few John Sanford novels, a Nick Hornby I haven't read, a the next two in Julia Spencer-Fleming's series and A Monster Calls. When I got home my son told me I looked like I won the book lottery. I told him that's what it felt like! Lots of fun, fluffy reads. I need something fun to distract me from the never-ending winter. The wind chills here were zero today...UGH.

Looks like A Monster Calls is available at the library. I have some books to take back, I may get enough ambition to leave my house today...

Uh oh. I was forced to shop both stores. I picked up a couple books on my nook and one on my kindle.

I started South of Broad the other day. Pat Conroy's voice is just amazing. I read The Prince of Tides while in high school and wasn't a huge fan...but I think he may just be an author I wasn't ready to get yet. I'll probably go back to that book and try it again and see what I think now.

@liz- so glad you are reading The Sparrow!!!! I adored that one.

They are a fabulous bunch. :)

Fingers crossed for good results. My friend's dog Brinkley started his clinical trial, so we're pulling for him as well.

Excellent points, Tasha! I agree about the "sellout". I think that's bs. We work hard at things with the hope that it will pay off. I'm thrilled that the person who gave me goodreads (and it has been a gift - hours of entertainment, a lovely group of friends I've never met and the exposure to hundreds of books I may not have read - FOR FREE!!!) is getting a fabulous reward for all the work that went into this. I hope it remains the place it is, driven more by book love than live of money. But we are all fans of Amazon. So fingers crossed it will all be good.

He's an English setter and the tumor is near his spleen.

I've got my nook and my kindle, but I'm not excited either. I much prefer a space driven more by book love than book monopoly.

Oh Liz, what kind of pup is she? How terrifying. My friend Amber has canine children too, and her Brinkley has cancer, but is likely going to participate in a study at the University of mn. There is always hope.