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The shop was slow today, which was fine as it allowed him a little bit of work on his homework while he covered the shop. Thankfully he wouldn't be here when it got really busy in the night. Who'd have thought that keeping the store open late at night would be the best decision his father had ever made? Though... he supposed there wasn't much left open that late at night...

Chewing idly on a pencil, he stared at the paper before him when the little bell on the inside of the front door went off and green eyes lifted from the paper. Oh. He'd never seen this woman before, not that he recalled anyway. And he liked to think he was pretty okay with remembering faces.

"Hello, welcome to Prose and Cons." A soft voice, though it held a bit of husky timbre, and a pleasantly neutral expression greeted her. "Is there something I can help you find?"

Homework wasn't holding his attention anyway.

"Ah, sorry..." an apologetic look as he made his way around the counter, leaving his pencil with his homework. That was what he got for zoning out he supposed, though he did feel a bit bad for scaring her.

Confused a bit about how it was comical, he offered a chuckle as her answer clued him in. Very ironic. Though he definitely seemed to perk up at the mention of horror/thriller.

"A horror fan, hm?" A moment to glance about before motioning for her to follow him, so he could lead her to the section. It was a bit out of the way, towards the back and in a slightly darker corner of the shop. Fitting for it, really.

"What's the book, if you don't mind me asking." He didn't know all of their stock by heart but he did try to keep up to date on their horror section.

"That's not a bad way of doing it, good way of finding a preferred genre too. If you have one." He did and he was picky about it too, but he kept that to himself.

The store tried to keep a hold of just about anything it could, books were his dad's passion after all. And he had to keep up with the big chain stores on top of it. What good was a book store that only specialized in old books?

"A Matter of Men, huh?" A moment to think as he came to a stop at the specified section she was looking for. Thriller was kept in the same area. "I can't say for sure if that's one we have in stock at the moment, but I know it's one I haven't read. Not quite my cup of tea but it's an interesting premise all the same."

"That's understandable, not everyone does the genre the same way so I'm sure some takes are better then most." He'd given a couple a try but they just weren't for him. He'd stick with his paranormal or eldritch deities thanks.

"War of the Worlds is only interesting in the case of it's first radio drama and the purposed panic it supposedly caused, though I did find the Tom Cruise movie version not terrible. Though I think the credit for that is the sound design."

But he could definitely agree that War of the Worlds was overdone.

"Sci-fi can be hard though, some of it far too convoluted for my tastes. And Stephen King certainly isn't for everyone. His more paranormal like stories are more my taste, if I had to be honest. So I can understand that."

There was a small, amused chuckle from the blonde and he shook his head. "It's fine, that's part of what my dad likes about having a book shop." Especially a used one. "He likes to talk shop and it comes with the territory, I think."

Someone was inevitably going to come in and gush, and it was fine honestly. He just wasn't so fond of talking about his own likes and dislikes without prompting. Which, he supposed, was why she probably thought he wanted her out asap. He was a better listener then a talker in all honesty.

"So, you work in robotics huh? What's that like?" A curious glance her way. "Not that I'm trying to have you talk further into shop talk, it's just not something I find most people are into."

Oh that sort of robotics. That made all the more sense when combined with her preference of sci-fi/horror. Another chuckle from the blonde.

"Specialized indeed. Though I imagine the coding and computer work is much more important then the build itself." The coding tended to make it work, after all. "But I can definitely see why your preference is the way it is."

But NASA, man. That was the big time work there, it wasn't hard to say he was thoroughly impressed. And he was sure it paid well too.

"If you want, I can keep an eye out for more aliens and space lore type books for you as they come in." He wasn't sure if thriller/horror was her preferred genre but he was sure they got more of those in then anything. "Give you a heads up when they come in and you can see if it's anything that catches your fancy."

"It's definitely not an issue. You'll just need to leave your name and a name or email we can reach you at." They could do that when they got back to the counter though. They definitely had similar deals for other people, though mostly just for writers as opposed to a whole genre type.

To each their own.

"We'll see if can't find you plenty more to read that isn't computer code for when you have time to read." The smile he offered her with his words fell just a bit at her question, green eyes blinking some. Oh, right. He had mentioned his dad hadn't he?

A small, slightly sheepish chuckle. "Nah, he is sole proprietor of the shop to be honest. I just help out whenever I can between classes and such." It allowed his dad to take a break, spend some time with his brother. Not that his dad hadn't asked but... He felt a little weird taking the ownership spot his mother would have taken were she still alive.