Ebook: I can't remember the title but the cover is blue: sketches from the other side of the bookshop counter
Author: Greig Elias
- Tags: Booksellers and bookselling, Bookstores, Anecdotes, Greig Elias -- Career in bookselling, Booksellers and bookselling -- Anecdotes, Bookstores -- Anecdotes
- Year: 2020
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- City: Sydney
- Language: English
- epub
As any retail or service worker will tell you, customers can be irrational, demanding, abusive, and brain-scramblingly, mind-bendingly strange. They can also be kind, thoughtful, funny, and full of pathos. Something about the often-fraught interaction between customer and worker, with the dividing line of the counter between them, loosens inhibitions, and has a kind of hot-house effect on eccentricity.
In I Can't Remember the Title But the Cover is Blue, veteran bookseller Elias Greig collects the best, worst and downright weirdest customer encounters from his years working as a Sydney bookseller. From ill-behaved children to nostalgic seniors and everything in between, this hilarious and unpredictable book is the perfect gift for anyone who's ever been on the wrong side of a counter.