Why has Neha not read many books this year?

Manager: So you'd like to work here on weekends. Have you worked in a bookshop before?

Neha: No. I've worked in my uncle's pharmacy during the holidays, though.

Manager: That's different.

Neha: It is. But the customers are the same people. They come in looking for one thing, they don't quite know its name, and they're a little embarrassed to ask.

Manager: (smiles) That's true of both. What's your favourite book?

Neha: Can I give you an honest answer or a good one?

Manager: Try the honest one.

Neha: I haven't read many books this year. I've been preparing for exams. But I read the backs of hundreds of them in the library, trying to decide which one I'd read first when the exams are over.

Manager: That's an unusual answer.

Neha: It's the true one. I thought you'd rather have that than me pretending I'd read something clever.

Manager: I would. And knowing what's on the back of a hundred books is most of this job, as it happens. Can you start on Saturday?