Bees

The Secret Life of Bees was an interesting story. Although I didn't enjoy every part of it, others were quite good. I was amused and a bit confused by all of the uses for honey described - especially the spoonful of honey in the morning to wake them up and the spoonful of honey at night to put them to sleep :). For the last hundred pages or so of the book, I was almost always in tears - leading to the annoying stuffy-nosed, clogged ears, headachy feeling. Fortunately, I finished the book before I needed to leave for work, and with some time to recover from that as well.
This book reminded me of my impression from many years ago (I think mostly from the movie Fried Green Tomatoes) that I would enjoy having an apiary and processing honey (I was about to say making honey, but that's what the bees do). I suspect this would not be the best job for me, however; the last time I got stung, my hand swelled to double its normal size. Oh well, I still enjoy working in the library!