{"id":8336,"date":"2012-07-06T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2012-07-06T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:00:27","slug":"getting-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=8336","title":{"rendered":"Getting Feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, booksellers go out on a limb and recommend books. Often we never hear back about the success, or failure of those recommendations. The other day, I was cleaning out a massive pile of mail and came across a postcard that a customer sent recently.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8337\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>She came in a few days before Easter seeking a book that would &#8220;distract me from my in-laws for the whole weekend.&#8221; I knew this customer well enough that I felt comfortable suggesting the 1,312 page classic <em>Count of Monte Cristo. <\/em>She looked askance and I could almost hear her thinking: are you crazy? I told her about the store and she reluctantly left with the book. I told her that if she gave it a chance, she&#8217;d be riveted.<br \/>\nThe postcard was addressed: To the Books Goddesses of the Flying Pig. And it&#8217;s clear she loved it. This card now adorns my fridge door to remind me that there is a real joy in connecting someone with a book they&#8217;d never had read or thought of for themselves. And to save a whole weekend for someone is always going to be a gift.<br \/>\nThat she was moved enough to write me is my gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, booksellers go out on a limb and recommend books. Often we never hear back about the success, or failure of those recommendations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}