https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:59:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1238577 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 19:14:53 +0000 MaisyMay 1238577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think my Codex Vitae would be long, but full of utterly random information. Hopefully it would inspire people to do or be more. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1236589 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:10:38 +0000 swurlygurl 1236589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dc yoga bee: I agree - I think that using the computers is totally cheating, and I can see why Corvina refuses to allow it. It's kind of ruining the tradition of the mystery. Unless their SOLE purpose is to decode that original book, then by all means, break out the computer! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1236580 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:08:48 +0000 swurlygurl 1236580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dc yoga bee: Oh sure, I have accomplishments, just no grand book-decoding-accomplishments! Haha. I think successfully raising a child will be a huge accomplishment - especially if we all survive the teenage years </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1236359 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:15:25 +0000 dc yoga bee 1236359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: Awe I'm sure it has lots more accomplishments then you're giving yourself credit for! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1236097 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:01:27 +0000 swurlygurl 1236097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Were you surprised to hear Penumbra's true reason for going to the library?</p> <p>Oh yeah - I was fully expecting him to be mad and ashamed! I'm still a little surprised that he didn't say anything before he left. Why couldn't he have said "FYI, I'm going to go see if I can approve some changes, see you in a few" ?! </p> <p>What do you think of the idea of writing a Codex Vitae with all of the knowledge that you'd acquired throughout your life?</p> <p>It'd be awfully short and boring! Hahaha. At first thought, that's what I think, that I haven't done much with my life. But, then when I think about it some more, I realize that my journey has been unique to me, and something I cherish very much. It isn't exciting and full of adventure or great accomplishments, but it has been wonderful </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1236025 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:35:53 +0000 dc yoga bee 1236025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetMamaM: Wow, I think that's amazing your mom did that :heart: </p> <p>Were you surprised to hear Penumbra's true reason for going to the library?</p> <p>I was surprised, yet slightly disappointed! I think it's great for technology to move us along, but I kind of felt like it was *cheating* a bit at deciphering the code. Granted, it shaves 500 years off of trying to do it by hand, but it still takes the fun out of it a bit! </p> <p>What do you think of the idea of writing a Codex Vitae with all of the knowledge that you'd acquired throughout your life?<br /> I want to write a novel some day, so I like it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1226909 Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:46:48 +0000 SweetMamaM 1226909@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Were you surprised to hear Penumbra's true reason for going to the library?</p> <p>I was! As an English teacher we're often asked on our views on technology and I am for whatever makes it more accessible for students to devour literature :happy: </p> <p>What do you think of the idea of writing a Codex Vitae with all of the knowledge that you'd acquired throughout your life?</p> <p>I think some of us are anyway, as we venture further into the blogging world. The blog that my mother wrote over her four year battle with cancer is now her own little codex vitae. Incomplete, sure, but it exists. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1225123 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:05:03 +0000 Running Elley 1225123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MediaNaranja: I think it would be amazing to read the ones by great thinkers or people who we admire from the past too. I LOVED that Clay found out about his favorite author being part of the Unbound and his codex vitae being the third book in the trilogy. That would really excite me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1225121 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:03:33 +0000 Running Elley 1225121@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ms.Badger: Up to Part III in the book, The Tower :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1224964 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:25:45 +0000 Ms.Badger 1224964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm trying to skip reading spoilers but where are we supposed to be chapter-wise. i'm trying to catch up </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1224901 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:49:26 +0000 MediaNaranja 1224901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p><b>Were you surprised to hear Penumbra's true reason for going to the library?</b></p> <p>I was, actually! I thought that Clay's use of technology angered Penumbra, which is why he closed the bookstore. I thought maybe Penumbra was going there to discuss some sort of punishment for him, haha.</p> <p><b>What do you think of the idea of writing a Codex Vitae with all of the knowledge that you'd acquired throughout your life?</b></p> <p>I think it's a neat idea, although my life is so unremarkable that I doubt anything useful to others could be found there. I do like the idea of reading the Codex Vitae of great thinkers past and present, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-november-mr-penumbras-24-hour-book-store-week-3-discussion-spoilers#post-1224666 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:31:10 +0000 Running Elley 1224666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p><b> Were you surprised to hear Penumbra's true reason for going to the library? </b></p> <p>I was! I love his enthusiasm for the idea of using technology to actually advance books instead of fixating on the harm that technological advances will do to them. Obviously he's primarily motivated by "breaking the code" but he excited me too.</p> <p><b> What do you think of the idea of writing a Codex Vitae with all of the knowledge that you'd acquired throughout your life? </b></p> <p>I am not sure if I'd want to! On one hand, it would be a great legacy to leave. On the other hand, what a humongous responsibility! I think that the pressure to make it spectacular and helpful would make it more of an anxiety-ridden chore for me than anything. </p>