{"id":356,"date":"2008-05-05T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2008\/05\/05\/a-castigation-of-dunces\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T08:10:00","slug":"a-castigation-of-dunces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"A Castigation of Dunces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what to do with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/blog\/660000266\/post\/180021618.html\" rel=\"noopener\">those books you didn&#8217;t like<\/a>? Here&#8217;s an entertaining suggestion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20080501\/duncebook.jpg\">Our&nbsp;AMAZING gift buyer Alexa Crowe is part of a book group&nbsp;in which its members&nbsp;don&#8217;t all read the same book &#8212; they individually read whatever books they want to then come together, talk about what they&#8217;ve read, and swap books if one person wants to read the book recommended by someone else. In their group, when someone hasn&#8217;t liked a book, they make the book sit in the corner, LITERALLY. They walk the book over to the corner, set it on the floor &quot;facing&quot; the corner, and then leave it leaning there, presumably until it&#8217;s learned its lesson.<\/p>\n<p>I think little paper dunce caps would make a nice addition, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else have clever &quot;shame on you&quot; ideas for dealing with these literary disappointments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure what to do with those books you didn&rsquo;t like? Here&rsquo;s an entertaining suggestion. Our&nbsp;AMAZING gift buyer Alexa Crowe is part of a book group&nbsp;in which its members&nbsp;don&rsquo;t all read the same book &mdash; they individually read whatever books they want to then come together, talk about what they&rsquo;ve read, and swap books if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","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\/356","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}