BBW!
The Kinokuniya bargain sale has been ridiculously underwhelming that I don't even want to talk about it. On the plus side though, The Big Bad Wolf Sale was BRILLIANT, even though we went there on the third day and I'm sure many good books were gone already (I couldn't find Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil anywhere, so it must've been sold out, which bummed me the hell out).
But I found so many other titles that I wanted or never thought that I wanted that the journey to the quite out of reach location was TOTALLY worth it (my younger sister drove me and mona_ahmad there cos I'm the most useless person in the family when it comes to driving, especially out of state; if it were up to Mona and I we would've ended up in Sarawak or somewhere).
Around 27 contemporary books for RM200 (USD50)! Now THAT'S a sale! This haul totally made me not want to buy ANYTHING from the store for the rest of the month, which is good, cos I need to clear my to-be-bought books this month. And FINALLY get my hands on Pratchett's I Shall Wear Midnight (EEEEEEE!)
Afterwards we went to McDonalds at Amcorp Mall (it's tradition now, Mona). I WAS SO HAPPY OMG. Book sales are so of the few occasions in which I allow myself to indulge. SO HAPPY.
Bought:
1-3) The Hunger Game trilogy by Suzanne Collins
4)Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
5) Room by Emma Donoghue
6) My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
6) The Garden of Bad Dreams by Christopher Hope
7) City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
8) Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (yay!)
9) Where the Streets had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
10) Ten Things I hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
11) Love Letters of Great Men
12) Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons by Gerald Durrell
13) Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
14) The City & the City by China Mieville
15) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
16) Knife by R. J. Anderson
17) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
18) The Stranger by Max Frei
19) Emily the Strange
20) The Princess Diaries #10 by Meg Cabot
21) Terry Pratchett's Hogfather the Illustrated Screenplay
The rest are a book for my mum, my niece and my cousins. Oh, the Christine Feehan books are for Mid, so she owe me RM16 anyways. There's an even balance between YA and Lit books this time, although sales are the only time I take risks with popular titles, cos sometimes they usually have shallow characters or terrible plots or lack substance, but I don't want to risk losing out on good books so I'll give them a try first. But I really really wanted to read Abdel-Fattah's books, the first Jeeves novel and I actually betted that Room would win Booker this year (it didn't; the prize went for the most predictable award bait story of them all).
My biggest problem now is to decide which one to read first, oh no. WHICH??
But I found so many other titles that I wanted or never thought that I wanted that the journey to the quite out of reach location was TOTALLY worth it (my younger sister drove me and mona_ahmad there cos I'm the most useless person in the family when it comes to driving, especially out of state; if it were up to Mona and I we would've ended up in Sarawak or somewhere).
Around 27 contemporary books for RM200 (USD50)! Now THAT'S a sale! This haul totally made me not want to buy ANYTHING from the store for the rest of the month, which is good, cos I need to clear my to-be-bought books this month. And FINALLY get my hands on Pratchett's I Shall Wear Midnight (EEEEEEE!)
Afterwards we went to McDonalds at Amcorp Mall (it's tradition now, Mona). I WAS SO HAPPY OMG. Book sales are so of the few occasions in which I allow myself to indulge. SO HAPPY.
Bought:
1-3) The Hunger Game trilogy by Suzanne Collins
4)Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
5) Room by Emma Donoghue
6) My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
6) The Garden of Bad Dreams by Christopher Hope
7) City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
8) Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (yay!)
9) Where the Streets had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
10) Ten Things I hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
11) Love Letters of Great Men
12) Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons by Gerald Durrell
13) Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
14) The City & the City by China Mieville
15) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
16) Knife by R. J. Anderson
17) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
18) The Stranger by Max Frei
19) Emily the Strange
20) The Princess Diaries #10 by Meg Cabot
21) Terry Pratchett's Hogfather the Illustrated Screenplay
The rest are a book for my mum, my niece and my cousins. Oh, the Christine Feehan books are for Mid, so she owe me RM16 anyways. There's an even balance between YA and Lit books this time, although sales are the only time I take risks with popular titles, cos sometimes they usually have shallow characters or terrible plots or lack substance, but I don't want to risk losing out on good books so I'll give them a try first. But I really really wanted to read Abdel-Fattah's books, the first Jeeves novel and I actually betted that Room would win Booker this year (it didn't; the prize went for the most predictable award bait story of them all).
My biggest problem now is to decide which one to read first, oh no. WHICH??