"It's everywhere. I mean I'm decorating the club, but that's a business decision and so are the thematic cocktails, but I could do without it," Charlie said, sounding somewhat grumpy for once. Valentine's was decidedly not his favourite holiday.
He considered the book Hyperion had pointed out and grimaced. "I think that a. if not racist it's at least playing to some nasty stereotypes, b. the word forbidden followed by an or sort of makes me think if the writer ever came to the club I should throw them out on principle." He almost would have preferred the wizarding version of the Karma Sutra (the defining difference being the moving illustrations, obviously), but at least the cover of the Arabian book was pretty innocuous. The classic romance novels seemed to tend towards overly dramatic images. And everything seemed to have some sort of romance sub-plot these days.
"I'm just going to skip the whole display since I have zero fucking interest," he said, hoping the staff hadn't disposed of all of their stock of other books. And not the non-fiction section for once.