Love Song of the Day: A widow's song

Here's a gorgeous one. Patti Smith wrote an album dedicated to her husband Fred when he suddenly died of a fatal heart attack at the age of 45. This is one of the songs from the album. Ohhhh so sad! (Or for a downloadable live version: here.)

I met a Real Harlequin Hero!

I had a customer today who asked for a Harlequin title, for his daughter. I looked around for it and realized it had already been stripped to be returned (it was last month's set of books.) When I returned to tell him, there was a woman with him, but she looked to be his age (30s?) so I figured this was his wife, not the daughter. As we were ordering the book she told me that they're buying it because her husband's on the cover, and he 'fessed that the daughter thing was a cover.

At first I thought it was a joke. I looked at the cover on my computer screen, then looked at him and said: "Oh my God! That IS you!" He was pretty bashful, but his wife was Appropriately Proud.

And I can tell you... he didn't just have a pretty face. And he was even better looking in person. Must have been the Bashful Look. It was irresistible. ;-)