Marley and Me
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Galley Talk
In this week's Publisher's Weekly, the Galley Talk column features Marley & Me. Amanda Snook, marketing manager at Schuler Books in Lansing, Michigan, writes in the column:
"I cried like a baby at the end of John Grogan's Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog (Morrow, Nov.). We've been passing this galley around, and everyone loves it so much that we've started calling it Tuesdays with Marley. I have a feeling it will appeal to people looking for a good, simple story with honest emotions. Some books today are so complicated that we forget the power of a good story well told, and that's what this book is all about. ... It's not something I would have normally picked up, but Grogan's funny and moving story grabbed me. Good books evoke an emotion from you, and this one certainly does that."
And a review that uses the words "funny and moving" and "everyone loves it so much" evokes a certain emotion in me -- pure joy! The responses from early readers continue to roll in, and I couldn't be more thrilled. Make that awed and humbled. Counting the days till the Oct. 18 release. Pins and needles.
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Speaking of responses from early readers, I also received this note from Sue R., a bookstore manager in Tennessee: "Our general manager asked me today if I had read anything else lately that I wanted to recommend to our other store team leaders and to our corporate office, other than Marley and Me, and I told him thatNOTHING is going to compare to that book! ...[A] great, terrific, heartwarming, adorable book."
Wow, now that's enthusiasm. And what better trait could an author ask for in a bookseller? You go, Sue!
posted by John Grogan at 8:18 PM
 
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