Showing posts with label books for sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books for sale. Show all posts

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Malinche by Laura Esquivel



I first saw Malinche at Powerbooks, one of the new releases at that time. It cost around P900 or so.





Imagine my delight finding it at P75 bucks! ($1.50)



The cover unfolds into this ancient diorama!


Love the feel of the illustrations! It matches the tone and mood of the novel ;>

Laura Esquivel provides a chapter long tell-all about how she wrote the whole book and the history and myth behind Malinche.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Confessions of a Book Hunter



I love books for a variety of reasons. I like collecting them, and I would never read a novel in ebook form because I love the tactile feel of paper on my fingers. I like the company of books, I love being surrounded by them and I'm a bit surprised I didn't end up a librarian.

Though my Aunt Baby is a librarian at the biggest University library in Iloilo; my uncle Herman, a lawyer, was a voracious reader who up to his death was reading classic spy pageturners. My parents never read for leisure and would often dissuade me from reading books, they fear reading would damage my eyesight. Perhaps it has to a degree.

I'm not the Academic literary sort, nor am I a book critic or a teacher among other things. So forgive me, if my book selection may not be so ideal. I just want to blog about my book finds, share my treasures. I frequent Book Sale (all possible branches) and Bargain books (Waltermart and Market! Market! Mall). I take my 5 year old son with me and I leave him looking for his own set of books at the children books section. He drags me home by sundown.