National Bookstore is having its annual sale beginning last Thursday until sometime in September. I happen to have P2,000-worth of gift checks courtesy of Bookwatch, and so I visited the super branch in Cubao yesterday, hoping to have some good finds. I ended up using only half of the gift checks I had, and bought Italo Calvino's Our Ancestors 30% less than the tag price (P675.00). Filipiniana titles are sadly not part of the sale, but I had to get these two books for my continuing comprehensive exams review: Vicente L. Rafael's The Promise of the Foreign and Ramon Guillermo's newly-released Pook at Paninindigan.
When I went to the Booksale in Farmers, Sir Marx Lopez was already there, and so I had to settle for his leftovers. I've been seeing this collection of letters by Robertson Davies, whose The Deptford Trilogy I read early this year, in Booksales for some time now, but it's now being sold for only P45 and so I just had to buy it. Besides, his letters detailed his novel-writing process, and so I might get some inspiration from him.
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