Surprise Diamonds

It's rare in these times of woe that a big group of people get together to celebrate Neil Diamond, but last night at Book Soup that was exactly the case.  David Wild came in to talk about his new book, He Is...I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond.  In the past few months, many events have been somber musings on the state of the financial markets, marked with a brief moment of joy just after election night, but last night, we kicked it old school Book Soup style.  Not only was the crowd loud and raucous, frequently cheering and roaring with laughter, but we even had a special guest.  

For those that found parking and made it into the store on time (a.k.a. 20 minutes behind schedule, as that is on time in L.A. time), one Mr. Chris Isaak actually came in and played a little Neil Diamond for us on his beautiful guitar with that beautiful voice of his.  Women seemed to come out of the far corners of the store to drool for three minutes over the dreamboat musician.  

In the standing room only crowd, everyone sat with rapt attention as Chris sang, cheering wildly when he finished and turning to David for some good laughs and a great event worthy of the best Neil Diamond has to offer.  

Happy Reading,

Julia