GOOD GRIEF! I LITERALLY SLEPT YESTERDAY WHILE WRITING THIS POST. Anyway, I'll still be writing this as if it just happened earlier. That's not cheating, right? :)
After our rehearsal for my Literature class, I immediately went to Powerbooks-Trinoma to have my usual book-hunting. I've been doing this almost everyday and it never tires me to visit bookshops to have books as company. I even travel across malls to visit their bookshops (see: Fully Booked, NBS, Bestsellers, and Powerbooks).
While browsing for books at Powerbooks, a particular book caught my attention: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (it's part of a trilogy). It has this really eye-catching cover of a knife (so fitting) imposed in a white background. I picked up an open-for-browsing copy and read the first few pages. Little did I notice that I already read nearly twenty pages. The plot, which I think is along the lines of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games, is really engaging. I decided to try to purchase it and being the O.C. book collector that I am, I asked for a hardcover copy. The staff there were helpful and they even know the other books in the series. After much typing and calling, the unfortunately couldn't find a copy so I opted to have the book by special order. But BEWARE: Special orders from this particular bookstore entails HUGE costs and I mean REALLY HUGE costs. The Knife costs about P850-P900 but when I asked for a special order, their calculated price was P1500!! What the heck?!? That's like, almost twice the price of the book! In the end, I just said I will return some other day and instead, I had Fully Booked order my book together with The Ask and The Answer.
I also bought these from Powerbooks:
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I usually am not a collector of bookmarks but I have an addiction to them lately. Those two bookmarks I got from Powerbooks for only P15.00 apiece! Aside from being really cheap, they have lots of great designs too, though many of them are for women. This is what I like in Powerbooks. Their supplies and knick-knacks are really cheaper in comparison to Fully Booked who sells bookmarks as if they're made of precious materials. Sheesh. So there is my latest bookshop adventure.
P.S. I should really be studying now for my Final in my Literature class. Oh joy (sarcasm).
P.P.S. I would sincerely like to extend my condolences to the relatives of the Sedilla family who passed away in a fire accident. Even if I haven't personally known and met their daughter Miss Patricia who is a good friend of some of my high school classmates, I wish that she and her family will find eternal joy in the hands of our Creator.
I'm loving the bookmarks! I have become an informal collector of them (friends get them for me because they assume I collect them since I have so many) and I have never seen any like those! I need to get into the habit of being in a bookstore everyday. I bet it would be good for my sanity.
ReplyDeleteHi! Yes, a bookstore a day keeps the doctor away (in my opinion). And the bookmarks are really cheap, just around thirty cents apiece I think?
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