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

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

This was rather depressing, and I didn't like any of the characters that well either. The premise seemed interesting, but it was hard to really care about any of the characters, or see anything but a string of bad decisions. I was angered by the ending. I think that too much was put in the hands of a child.

You have to post the invitation to last year's event! I remember laughing until I cried.

Liz, you're mean. It was 15 below this morning. Last year on St. Patrick's day it was 70. UGH!!!!! No doors and windows open here!

We're going May 12 - 19. Less than 2 months!

We took the family to WDW in the fall of 09, so I plan to do Downtown Disney for sure - I missed the Boardwalk the first time around, so thanks for the suggestion! I know Mike and I are going to spend a day at Epcot, and I'm thinking I may buy a 4 day pass so I can go in and out of the parks at will while he's doing his classes. It's not that much of a price difference between 2 days and 4...I love the Magic Kingdom, and may want to do more than 1 day at Epcot. We'll see! I think the drinking around the world sounds like a brilliant Idea. :) Even sitting and people watching will be great.

Now that I whined about no snow, March has been dumping on us left and right, with another big snowstorm due to start tonight. Monday snow day. :P

I recently started and finished In the Bleak Midwinter and then moved on to A Fountain Filled With Blood, the next in the series. I found these quite enjoyable, and gave them each 4 stars, and now I'll need to buy some more in the series.

Yay!!!! Babies are awesome. Congratulations. :). Progesterone poisoning not so awesome...I remember that vividly from when I was gestating.

Mike has decided to attend an artist getaway in Orlando over our anniversary week and so we will be spending a week in Orlando. I will be on my own for 4 days while he attends his workshops, so I plan on reading by the pool, wandering WDW solo and am open to suggestions for either what we should do there together or me solo. This is our first trip without kiddos in 5 years...I'm excited!

Amy wrote: "I finished up a few since I last posted -

was good but not great. I gave it 3 stars.

I re-read which I actually liked a bit less on t..."

You'll have to let me know what you think about Blink - it was readable, but I didn't really buy into his theories much. You can find a scenario and frame it to meet your theoretical goals, and that's what it felt like to me.

And I'm thrilled you loved Tiny Beautiful Things! I'm going to get my copy autographed in a couple weeks!

I started a couple days ago, and it's dense, but very interesting. It's reminding me of Cutting for Stone.

Are you glad you read it or do you feel gross? I've got it from the library but I'm not feeling enticed.

I've had it on my TBR for awhile and had already slated it for a task. :). Love it when a plan comes together.

I've got my copy from the library too. :)

I didn't love Cell. But zombies are cool again, so I guess there's a movie to be made.

OK, I answered a few of the questions -

Did I have a negative feeling towards Danni -

I really did. It tempered a lot at the end of the novel, but I felt like she projected all of her negativity onto others. It's Finn's fault she doesn't live out her dreams (really?) It's up to Greta to succeed and to push herself to do what Danni wants her to do...but Greta's mental health isn't taken into account at all. These two girls are young - 14 and 16 and they are virtually abandoned during tax season - that's 3 to 4 MONTHS each year. I understand the fear of AIDS based on the time. In 1987 it was still so feared and unknown. I think to some degree the fact that she had a gay brother was probably difficult in part because of the military household they grew up in. Very few military families I remember from the 80's would have embraced a gay child.

Another question was what do I remember about AIDS in the late 80's. I was a child of the 80's and 90's, and remember Magic Johnson saying he was HIV positive, Ryan White and Elton John and being so confused as to why everyone harped on the fact that "It's not a gay man's disease"...then 15 plus years later when the people I know who have died of AIDS have actually all been gay men, I finally understood. But, as a child from a rural community in ND, my only real images of people with AIDS were Magic Johnson and Ryan White. So the media messages of those times were all I really understood. I'm trying to think when the shift happened...I don't remember ever being concerned about being around people with HIV. But I know it was at least the mid-90's when I first knew someone who was positive. It's hard to really imagine how scary it must have been for someone with so little understanding of the disease and the actual risks of getting it.

There's a start. There are more questions, but I will wait for others to post too.

I finished this afternoon - I liked June, didn't get Greta for the longest time, and felt for June and her mistrust of virtually everyone who wasn't Finn. I'm very interested in the discussion questions, so I'll work on tackling a few of them after I've had a little more time to digest!

I really like that one as well. I have them both in hard cover. debating though. it might be nice to have on my kindle too.

Wally Lamb is on special at the kindle store!!!! One of my favorite books of all time included - The Hour I First Believed

I'm super excited about this one! I was given a B&N gift card and this is one of my purchases.

To be fair, Tricia and I are 76% compatible. It just seems that all the books we feel very strongly about, one way or the other, are opposite. It was so much fun to go through and see that there are so many similarities, I always think of our opinions as differing, but apparently it's mainly in the ones we write about! Hugs Tricia!!!! I love my red mittens!

I can't imagine finding the joy in losing toenails, blistering and callousing, starving and thirsting. Seriously not for me.