If you haven't read this book, please read first Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops. If you read that one and loved it, you know what you are going to find here (plus some hilarious surprises) but you won't stop laughing as well.

Just a very quick and funny read, that makes me hope this people were all slightly drunk at least or else my opinion on humans has decreased once more.

It came by Royal Mail!

Another book of funny/creepy/how-do-these-people-even-survive-in-real-life book-related anecdotes collected by Jen. Some come from her shop, some from other shops/libraries, and a few even came from incidents during her signings.

Still absolutely hilarious. I've got one in there.

Here are a few more:

Customer (college-aged male): You don't have any copies of Paradise Lost.
Me (finding this very hard to believe because I saw some not long ago): Well, let's go look on the shelves in poetry.
Customer: Poetry?? But I don't want to read a poem.
Me: Here it is, under Milton in poetry.
Customer: Do you have one that isn't a poem?
Me: No. Milton wrote a poem about the fall of Satan.
Customer: Do you have it in English?
(Give up while you're ahead, big guy - considering that one of our booksellers is a Miltonist who is married to another Miltonist the kid's lucky he got the bookseller he did)

Customer (woman in her mid-20s): I just read all the 50 Shades books and I need something else to read.
Me (gestures to ENTIRE TABLE of books with similar plots): Well, these are all similar in type.
Customer: Oh, but not the sex. There was too much sex. I really liked the suspense. Do you have a suspense section?
(I think she and I have very, very different ideas about what "suspense" is)

Customer: I need to return this Bible and buy a different one.
Me: Ok, which translation do you need? (the Bible she is returning is KJV)
Customer: Translation?
Me: Yes, there are different translations - King James, New Living, New International, New Revised Standard, The Message, and so on.
Customer: Well, I just want plain old English.
(So I rounded up a few NIV and NRSV versions).
Customer: Ok, I'll take this one. It's organized by the books of the Bible.
(So was the one she returned - I have no idea what she meant)

On a day to day basis, customers of all kinds make the bookselling world interesting. This book will show you the weird and wonderful side of that. The strange requests. The odd comments. The rude remarks. Not to mention the, quite frankly, amazingly awesome things children say – such as the boy who told me that, when he’s older, he’s going to become a book ninja. I have no idea what a book ninja is, but I want to hire that kid. Children are excellent.

As good as the first book and even more witty and hilarious!

I would totally love to have this conversation with the one who recommended me this book :P

"CUSTOMER (to her friend): You know the book War Horse?
CUSTOMER’S FRIEND: Yeah.
CUSTOMER: It’s about horses during a war, right?
CUSTOMER’S FRIEND: Yeah, I think so.
CUSTOMER: But, like, how did they interview the horses to find out what it was like during the war?
CUSTOMER’S FRIEND: Dunno.
CUSTOMER
(clicks her fingers): Got it. Did they use a horse whisperer or something?
CUSTOMER’S FRIEND: I guess they must have done.
CUSTOMER: That’s, like, so cool"




and Add this browsing through the bookshelves
"CUSTOMER: Ooh, books by Nicholas Shakespeare! Is he William Shakespeare’s son"



"CUSTOMER: Do you have Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Abracadabra?"


"CUSTOMER: I’m looking for a book called I Know Why the Care Bear Sings"

Another good book by Jen Campbell. I love reading these little anecdotes, they make me laugh out loud and my day better.

Totally recommended for book lovers! Very fun read. Boring at certain points... But nothing to complain about. Read in a single sitting.

Liked this more than the first one :D

LOL!