Books Tasted - Everything bookly (and a few other things)

I finally finished my top secret craft project, and since I sent it off to its intended recipients, I can now post about it!

Given that most of the books I've been reading lately are about pregnancy and babies, it's no surprise I haven't posted lately.

From the back cover description of The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, I was expecting this to be complete crap. It goes on and on about discovering oneself, the bond of womanhood, secret goddess power... barf. A back cover written for fans of Oprah picks and sappy books?

Make Him Look Good is a book by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, author of the popular chick lit book The Dirty Girls Social Club. I picked up a hardcover copy of this 2007 book for $5 in the book store's bargain bin. It was not worth it.

I'm going to state right up front that I have very mixed feelings about this book, and I lean more negative than positive.

Saving Grace is another novel by Lee Smith, and like On Agate Hill, it is set in the south (primarily North Carolina). Florida Grace Shepherd is raised in a semi-nomadic family whose patriarch is a snake-handling preacher. Her childhood is defined by her father's erratic behavior and charismatic personality, and by her defiance and compliance with her family's lifestyle.

We own several domains, and we recently moved things around a bit. This move unfortunately caused the loss of all of our data. Whoopsie daisy! Not that we didn't make a backup, of course - we're smarter than that. But we're still unable to give a sigh of relief, because our backup is corrupted. D'oh!

Bryan bought the domain bookstasted.com, so soon I will be moving from Blogger to my very own site! Once I get it all set up, that is.

Two questions for you:

(1) Can you suggest any good sites for CSS templates? I know of Zen Garden, but of course that's not really a template site, per se.

I saw these little crocheted animals last year at Maker Faire, but at the time couldn't figure out how to master a sphere.

The Last Battle is the final book in the Chronicles of Narnia, both in published date and Narnian chronological order. I was really excited to get to this book, most likely because I knew it meant I had finally finished rereading them. After only a page or two, I remembered the story and began to dread to read it. I actually raced through it, I think mostly just to be done with it.

Warning: if you haven't read the books and don't want to know the story, stop now.

I listened to Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles via a free podcast called The Classic Tales podcast (you can subscribe via iTunes). It was broken into 6 episodes and it took me a couple of months to listen to.