More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell (Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, #2)

Customer: Do you believe in past lives?

Bookseller: Erm, well, I …

Customer: I do. I absolutely do. I feel very at one with everything. I'm pretty sure this is my seventh time on earth.

Bookseller: I see.

Customer (looking pleased with herself): And I'm almost certain that in a past life I was Sherlock Holmes.

Bookseller: … You know, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character.

Customer (outraged): … Are you trying to tell me that I don't exist?

Bookseller: …

I heard about this book from Leena Norms, who is the sole contributor of the Youtube channel, Just Kiss My Frog. She mentioned both this book and its predecessor, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, in one of her videos and I was immediately interested. If you've worked in retail for any amount of time, you learn that there is no end to the stupid questions and ridiculous things people say in whatever store in which you work. So anyone who compiled a list of them was bound to come by a great deal of golden material, and if it has to do with bookshops then that's another level on which I'm interested.

I spread the reading of this one out a couple of weeks, reading a page or two every few days, giggling, and setting it down again. I loved it. This books is a goldmine of hilarious comments and questions that will keep you dying to read more. If you're looking for a few more laughs in your life, I absolutely suggest it!

(I've also been told that the second book isn't quite as good as the first, which only gives me hope. I loved this one, so I cannot wait to get my hands on the first.)

Rating: ★★★★★

Child: Mummy, who was Hitler?

Mother: Hitler?

Child: Yeah. Who was he?

Mother: Erm, he was a very bad man from a long time ago.

Child: Oh. How bad?

Mother: He was like … he was like Voldemort.

Child: Oh! That's really, really bad.

Mother: Yes.

Child: (Pause) So did Harry Potter kill Hitler, too?