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taken at the Manila International Book Fair
It was another long weekend and this time, Carlo and I went to the Manila International Book Fair held in the SMX Convention Center. As far back as I can remember, I always loved reading books. I started with Scholastic hardbound books and Berenstein Bears. As a tween, my favorite authors were Enid Blyton, Roal Dahl and Judy Blume. I would collect the Sweet Valley Twins, Baby Sitters Club and Nancy Drew books. Now I adore chick lit, fantasy (Harry Potter included) and mysteries. I can't imagine life without books! So naturally, this was one event I didn't want to miss.
The bookfair was chaos! There were sooooo many people looking through books, I had no idea where to start. Although after a couple of minutes walking around, I realized that a lot of the books were educational books. National Bookstore was a concessionaire but I didn't find anything I wanted to get. My criteria for buying something from that fair was it had to be on sale and something I wouldn't usually find elsewhere. I did see some interesting hardbound picture books but I felt like I was just wasting my money. so I ended up buying 3 back issues of preview magazine and a journal. Yeah I know... I didn't even follow my own criteria!
Are you a big reader?
2 comments:
I am A BIG, humongous reader. hihihi. Our spare room is where all my books are. Some books i have now are passed to me by parents and lolo. Some are really vintage, even older than me. I love to smell them. Nothing beats the smell of old rusty brown paper.
i didn't hear about this book fair. Now am sad.
i started with mills and boons, then Sheldon, and Steel to name a few.
Now I've collected all Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
hope to hear more from you soon.
have a great day!
my brother reads murakami and i've been meaning to read those books! they're good? :)
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