{"id":21,"date":"2009-11-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2009\/11\/05\/whats-on-your-nightstand\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T10:00:00","slug":"whats-on-your-nightstand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s on Your Nightstand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m curious what everyone is reading right now. Currently I&#8217;m reading two books: <em>The Maze Runner<\/em> and <em>The Demon&#8217;s Lexicon.&nbsp;<\/em>I don&#8217;t normally read this much fantasy, especially concurrently, but both of these are extremely compelling and I can&#8217;t bear not to read a little of each every night; they speak to different audiences who I think will enjoy them as much as I am.&nbsp;My current challenge is to not leap ahead into the spring 2010 galleys, although they look very yummy.&nbsp;I&#8217;m trying to get ready for the holidays by reading some gems that I might have missed.<\/p>\n<p> As we are approach the heart of the fourth quarter, I find myself eyeing my shelves thinking about what I can actively sell to all the various gift purchasers shopping in my store. I know what my favorites are: <em>Wintergirls, The Lion &amp; the Mouse, School of Fear, Once Was Lost,<\/em> the new <em>Mysterious Benedict Society, The Julie Andrews&#8217; Poetry Collection&#8230;<\/em> the list could go on and on.<\/p>\n<p> So, what&#8217;s in your bag, e-reader, or on your bedside table? And, what can&#8217;t you wait to handsell to gift purchasers this holiday season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m curious what everyone is reading right now. Currently I&rsquo;m reading two books: The Maze Runner and The Demon&rsquo;s Lexicon.&nbsp;I don&rsquo;t normally read this much fantasy, especially concurrently, but both of these are extremely compelling and I can&rsquo;t bear not to read a little of each every night; they speak to different audiences who I [&hellip;]<\/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-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}