Jen Campbell
Hardcover | Pages: 119 pages Rating: 3.8 | 21214 Users | 4356 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops |
| ISBN: | 1780334834 (ISBN13: 9781780334837) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Humor (2012) |
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This Sunday Times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'Can books conduct electricity?''My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?'
A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops' blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor.
From 'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?' to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year's weather; and from 'I've forgotten my glasses, please read me the first chapter' to 'Excuse me... is this book edible?: here is a book for heroic booksellers and booklovers everywhere.
This full-length collection illustrated by the Brothers McLeod also includes top 'Weird Things' from bookshops around the world.
Itemize Of Books Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops #1)
| Title | : | Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops #1) |
| Author | : | Jen Campbell |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 119 pages |
| Published | : | April 5th 2012 by Constable and Robinson |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Humor. Writing. Books About Books. Comedy. Adult. Contemporary. Literature. 21st Century |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 21214 Users | 4356 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops #1)
another fantastic gift from laima.years ago, i read Overheard at the Bookstore, and since i was new in the bookstore career, i laughed appreciatively. now that i have been employed here for what seems to be more than half of my life, my laughter towards this latest book is fueled by a sort of desperate recognition and tinged with melancholy. oh, my bookstore sisters and brothers, come to my sweet embrace. i was going to start a section in my writing for my tales from the stacks, but instead, iThings from this book I actually heard while working at a bookstore:"Where's your true fiction section?"(To this day I have no idea what the person meant.)"You must get so much time to read, just sitting here surrounded by books."(I once had a customer assume I'd read everything in the store. It was a relatively small bookstore rather than one of the big chains, but still -- not cool to be indignant that I haven't read every title we stock.)"I'm looking for a book for my son. He's only seven but
Its amazing how little non-readers know about the world of fiction. And its amazing how so many people can go their entire lives only having read the books they studied in mandatory education. I just dont get it. The things these people miss out on. Some of these people wondered into the bookshops Jen Cambell worked at and asked some rather stupid things. Some of my personal favourites are: "Where's your true fiction section?" (Isn't that an oxymoron?) "Do you have anything written by Jane
An excellent, outrageously little treasure of a book. It makes you feel justified to have lost every scrap of faith in humanity...
Updates 16 A nightmare about to happen. A woman from a Disney cruise ship came in and said she was trying to promote local businesses. She was going to do a treasure hunt and wanted to tell people they would have to find the first word on a certain page in a book and write it in their "passports" she would give them a big clue as to the title. (Pirates of the Caribbean, of course). Then when they had completed all their clues, the first ones back would get prizes and all would get a free
No, Ive never worked in a bookstore, but I did work in libraries for over 30 years so I couldnt resist this collection of the weird things that customers say. I second Neil Gaimans sentiment when he said this regarding Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops So funny. So sadRead it and sigh.Some of the comments made me laugh right out loud, some were really mean-spirited and yes, some were sad and some just left me scratching my head. I focused on the funny, which most are. If youve got an hour
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