On eve of 9/11, lives collide

Here lies my great love

A novel idea for a book? It's not easy, especially with nearly 300,000 new titles and editions published each year, and sales flat — at best. But here's a new twist on the old subject of failed romance: Relationship Obituaries, a book by Kathleen Horan due out in April 2009, based on the WNYC reporter's Web site.

Measuring my life in pages turned

By Cheryl Truman HERALD-LEADER BOOKS EDITOR

We have too many books at my house. What this has to do with summer reading, and why I fret about the idea of attaching a season to a reading addiction, we'll get to in a minute.