- Humor, general, Bookstores, Humor, English wit and humor
Customer: Have you read every single book in here? Bookseller: No, I can't say I have. Customer: Well, you're not very good at your job, are you? A simple Twitter question posed by John Cleese-"What is your pet peeve?" -inspired Jen Campbell to start a blog collecting all the ridiculous conversations overheard in her bookstore, everything from "Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?" to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year’s weather; from "I've forgotten my glasses, please read me the first chapter" to "Excuse me ... is this book edible?"; and from "Can books conduct electricity?" to "My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?" If we didn't know it already, this irresistible book is proof positive that booksellers are heroes, the world over.
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Warm, comic, effortless and contemporary.
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- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Jen Campbell
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- Malpaso Editorial, Overlook Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788415996873
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> Jen Campbell is a poet, short story writer, and bookseller. She graduated from Edinburgh University with a Masters in English Literature. Her 2012 book *Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores* was a London Times bestseller in its UK edition, with rights sold in Germany, Finland, and Sweden. She currently works at an independent bookstore in North London. Visit jen-campbell. blogspot.com for more.
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