Smart buy! Smart books! Ver.2
Book-hunting Part II.
I went to National Bookstore to buy my materials for our LTS trip in Bataan, but the first thing that captured my eyes are books. Waaa there are a lot of new great books! But the bad thing is it's expensive. P300 per book :( Such a pain in my purse. I can't afford it anymore, knowing that I have a lot of books to buy with a very small savings. So, I went to my next favorite book haven next to the Orient Pearl-- Book Sale. The books there are not as new and untouched as the ones in Orient Pearl, but they are still in their best condition sold at its best price.
I only have P400 pesos to spend but I wanted to buy 4 books: Memoirs of a Geisha, Cross (James Patterson), One True Thing (Anna Quindlen) which was adapted as a motion picture in 1998 starring Streep and Zellweger, The Green Mile (Stephen King). Sadly, Cross costs P195, which is by far the most expensive book among my choices, and the rest costs 120 and 95 pesos. Do the math, but my 400 won't be able to purchase those books. I had to sacrifice one. :( So goodbye Memoirs of a Geisha. I chose to sacrifice that because at this moment, I am not yet fond of the old-setting, traditional and Asian novels. It was the recent fondness of suspense novels due to the brilliance of Sidney Sheldon's The Naked Face that made me finally try a book by King and Patterson. Hehe. I want to read Green Mile! I've heard from my friend that the movie adaptation of it, starring Tom Hanks, is a very great film! So apparently the book is better. So so so excited to read it!
It's gonna be a very busy next-week for me. Starting tomorrow, Feb1. Sigh.
P.S. Bare with the wrong grammars/spellings and incoherence in this post. I just wrote swiftly and did not even check what I was writing. Hehehe. Quite in a hurry. See ya.
I went to National Bookstore to buy my materials for our LTS trip in Bataan, but the first thing that captured my eyes are books. Waaa there are a lot of new great books! But the bad thing is it's expensive. P300 per book :( Such a pain in my purse. I can't afford it anymore, knowing that I have a lot of books to buy with a very small savings. So, I went to my next favorite book haven next to the Orient Pearl-- Book Sale. The books there are not as new and untouched as the ones in Orient Pearl, but they are still in their best condition sold at its best price.
I only have P400 pesos to spend but I wanted to buy 4 books: Memoirs of a Geisha, Cross (James Patterson), One True Thing (Anna Quindlen) which was adapted as a motion picture in 1998 starring Streep and Zellweger, The Green Mile (Stephen King). Sadly, Cross costs P195, which is by far the most expensive book among my choices, and the rest costs 120 and 95 pesos. Do the math, but my 400 won't be able to purchase those books. I had to sacrifice one. :( So goodbye Memoirs of a Geisha. I chose to sacrifice that because at this moment, I am not yet fond of the old-setting, traditional and Asian novels. It was the recent fondness of suspense novels due to the brilliance of Sidney Sheldon's The Naked Face that made me finally try a book by King and Patterson. Hehe. I want to read Green Mile! I've heard from my friend that the movie adaptation of it, starring Tom Hanks, is a very great film! So apparently the book is better. So so so excited to read it!
It's gonna be a very busy next-week for me. Starting tomorrow, Feb1. Sigh.
P.S. Bare with the wrong grammars/spellings and incoherence in this post. I just wrote swiftly and did not even check what I was writing. Hehehe. Quite in a hurry. See ya.
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