book shopping

maruzen bookshop just had their annual book sale... english paperbacks!!! i guess those book arent really a best seller here in japan so they need to get "rid" of them real quickly... SO, that means we foreigners are really lucky... being at the right place, at the right time!

dad, sorry ya... just cant help it! accidentally spent around 8000yen on books these past days... yup, went twice! hey min, i bought a few grisham, including the brethren, the street lawyer, the firm, and i forgot the rest... and the order of the phoenix too, hardcover for only 800yen! agatha christie's, patricia cromwell or was it cornwell? haruki murakami's the norwegian wood and the elephant vanishes, memoirs of a geisha, some non fiction on japanese culture-of kamikaze, geisha, and a lot more! i also bought the book on the royal selangor... in japan eh! for only 500yen... i think it cost more than RM90 in malaysia! and another one, P.S. I love you... i heard it's kinda a sad story eh... hahahah, can last me for the whole of 2005... no worries, min! you can read them when i'm done! hahaha! dad, those are for your collection in your future library in 21 Jalan A8 Taman Melawati... haahhaha! dad, i want a bookcase to store all of them... mini library eh! hahahah! oh ya, there's a new dict in the market right now, jap-english... i think it's a mass media dictionary where you can find words which appear frequently in the news and media lah... politics, social and stuff... can i buy?

books cost much more in malaysia i feel... i mean, if you wanna encourage young people to read... reduce the price of those books lah! and another thing, we seldom get discounts, rarely i would say... kinokuniya, MPH, times... hardly... one paperback cost at least RM32.90... and those books in the library... sad lah! even those in our national library... USM's library... those available for loan... sad...

enough of book talk for now...