Or maybe they come and ask you for a book for a gift, and they need help because they don't read and so can't find their way around the bookstore. Listening to people walk through the store saying, "I don't really read". The story where someone comes in and needs help with a report or paper they have due the next day, and they don't understand why you don't have the exact book they need. Overall some of the stories were just as crazy as some that I'd experienced in my own bookstore career, and then others I just nodded and smiled as I read almost exact stories that had happened to each and every bookseller I'd worked with.įirst, I'll talk about the ones that are kind of common to all booksellers I would imagine. You would think that I would have rated it 5 stars on Goodreads, but there were a few of the stories that I didn't quite find that amusing, or really even very interesting. Then I kept it in one room in my house that I spent short amounts of time, so that I could read the short situations a little at a time and make it last. So I had to buy this book as soon as it came out. As someone who has worked in a bookstore since 2000, I had often talked with other booksellers about the crazy things our customers did and said. When I first heard about this book through the Shelf Awareness email newsletter, I was instantly intrigued.
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