Chocolate: Chocolate Visions Hearts Delight Bar

Chocolate Visions Hearts Delight Bar is a bittersweet bar with almonds, but the wrapper says "Blenheim Apricots, Applewood Smoked Almonds." I add that because I can't actually taste apricots, it's just that the bar tastes a little fruity and a little bit sweeter without making the chocolate taste sweeter. I don't know how they do that.

The almonds and the bittersweet are enough to make me really like this bar. I've already put one of their bars on my "love" list due to the wonderful nuts. And I'm really glad that there aren't any little apricot bits as I'm not that fond of fruit in my chocolate. I like the flavoring (remind me to talk about orange and chocolate) but not the actual fruit pieces.

I'm rambling now.

I like the bar. I am a little disappointed that I can't easily find their chocolate bars on their website though. Here's a little info about them.

Books: Wicked Games

I picked up a free Kindle read, Wicked Games, by Jill Myles. I did not look at this book for its content - you did see the word FREE, but I was wonderfully surprised. The story about Abby having to go on a survival show called Endurance Island, where she meets someone she wants to hate, had me laughing out loud several times. I will be looking for more of her humor in other books. I have found that Myles has a series revolving around the supernatural, but I've never been that fond of the particular supernatural she writes about. At the very least, if you are looking for a quick, cute read that doesn't hide the sex scenes, you might like this one.

TV: Eureka Cancelled...

...someone pass the smelling salts! I'm so bummed about this. I want to be angry because we're being given a real ending (which happens because they know so far in advance that they can try to appease us), but they're taking it away. Wah!

In other news, Laurence Fishburne is leaving CSI. Apparently he never intended to stay as long as he had. The CSI score in my mind did drop when Grissom left, but Fishburne didn't do too bad of a job keeping up the show. The show and cast is getting fairly skimpy.

Miscellaneous: Bullet Proof Skin

Sometimes it's really great to have interesting friends on Facebook. While I'm not so fond of all the links posted to various things, every once in a while the "pretty cool" pops up. Now I know there are several directions that we could go with this information, but the first thing I think of is super heroes! LOL! Seriously though, where do you see us going with Bullet Proof Skin?

Men: Guess Whose Eyes?

These eyes belong to an actor who plays a lot of small parts in TV and movies. Overall, he really isn't my kind of eye candy, but many find him to be theirs ;) Whose eyes?

Chocolate: Zotter Butter Caramel

Zotter Butter Caramel

Austrian, organic and fair, hand-scooped dark mountain milk chocolate filled with butter-caramel-cream (31%) cocoa (50%)

First, not what I expected at all. I was thinking of the traditional caramel filled chocolate. Instead there was a thin layer of caramel and a nutty center (sort of chewy and crunchy at the same time - but that might have to do with where I was keeping the bar before consumption).

Second, it's good. I would get it again. It is more like candy than solid chocolate, but I like it anyway.

There's a better description out there of the insides along with some other Zotter bar reviews.

Books: How to Knit a Love Song

B, yes B, picked up and read this book for a solid 5 minutes. Granted it involves a "he knows this person who's the relative of the author" kind of thing and it was the steamy part, but he read it! I know, now you're thinking I'm not going to give this book an honest review.

How to Knit a Love Song by Rachael Herron (<--her blog).
The story background involves knitting - a knitting movement around a late knitting guru named Eliza. Eliza is also a crafty matchmaker even in death. She wills the main character to a cottage and a bit of land located on the property she wills to her nephew. He is none too happy about the arrangement. There's even a real pattern at the end of the book (I'm a crocheter though :()

I will make three comments and leave it at that:
1. Just like any other little romance, this one delivers.
2. One major event foreshadowing wasn't subtle - I could see it coming early. I don't know if that was intentional.
3. This author doesn't sugar coat. This was no Harlequin. There were a couple of scenes that were very nicely described and felt real. Which doesn't always happen in these kinds of books.

Oops, one more thing, I'm going to read her next one :)