![]() One of my favorites that made me legitimately laugh out loud was the conversation about buying a new vs. If there has ever been a challenge for weird folks to come up with bizarre things to say, that was apparently it! That section was short, but it was gold. This book includes a section about quotes specifically from book signing events for the first book. Some were just really sweet and funny, some were annoying enough to grind teeth, and some were just baffling. Despite that, the bulk of these were accessible and amusing. There were one or two in here that I didn’t parse out, which was partly from the colloquialisms used as well since they’re mostly UK based. Some of the humor in the quotes that rely on knowing what a book is called or is about or when an author was alive in order to get the joke could definitely stump some folks. ![]() For example, the customer looking for the book about a boy with autism and a dog and called “the curious something something…” would have had me chiming in with “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” with the other 3 booksellers in that moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lo and behold, it was! There were still some references to books or cultural things that I could see sailing over the heads of people less familiar with reading overall. CUSTOMER (pondering): How much would a signed copy of the Bible be worth BOOKSELLER: Signed by whom CUSTOMER: Well I. Well I enjoyed book one and I figured book two would be much the same. ![]()
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