It's the national bookstore cut price book sale (great with or without the dominoes)

Saw this 5 days ago, 

Again i remembered that commercial with falling dominoes in it (They should bring back that commercial. Just show the old footage, if there's a need to save on production costs.).

And then Gener brought down the billboard.

But then it's still on, just for two weeks.

Great decision by National to retain 'Cut-price' catchphrase, and then the logo. Yeah, just show that commercial with the scissors cutting a thread, and then the dominoes start falling, falling, falling, hypnotizing,...

May kwentang sale

This was not advertised much, but the big summer books sale of National is practically the mid-annual cut price booksale. There was no need this round to wait for mall sale to get the standard 20% discounts on imported books.

My loot:

1. Games of Thrones. Three things that attracted me:
--the reviews of the HBO miniseries
--the profile of GRRM at the New Yorker
--the cover with Boromir sitting in a throne made of swords

2. 50th anniversary edition of catch-22--i was caught by the offer of various essays about the book, included in the thick volume  ive always wanted to read this since seeing several reviews putting it side by side with slaughterhouse five, which i love. so it goes.

3. brave new world, the cover was great. stiriking simplicity. also have been aiming to read since college.

4. 1984--always compared with brave new world, so i have to read them both, one after the other.

5. room--supposed to be innovative for a novel, and a page turner. decided to try, since seeing it in mass market paperback.currently reading; great opening

6-8. hunger games trilogy paper back. i'd like to read this thing before the movie with jennifer lawrence in it is released

9. immortal life of henrietta lacks--amazon's book of the year. was surprised to see this in mass paperback (usual price of 252 with discount). read it in 2 weeks. easy, informative read. Recommended.


Now, how will i find time to read all these?

I parked today, and this I saw...

National Bookstore Cut Price Book Sale!
(I used to put nasyonalbukstorcutpricebooksale! at the flyleafs of books I bought during this season)

I also like how theyve brought back that scissor image from long ago. I wish they can also find the tv commercial with falling dominoes from the 90's, and show it again.

It's that time when we can buy books cheaper than anywhere in the US, etc.

I owe a lot to this yearly event. Couldnt have read those Rushdie, Roth, Vonnegut, et al books if they were not on sale. I remember seeing an out-of-my-pocket's-reach book called Sabbath's Theater (400 PhP during college days), and marked that it will go on sale in one year at a big markdown,and it did go on sale! Thank you Nanay Socorro for your superb negotiation skills.

Former expat colleagues used to wait for this as well. Ah, them Dutch.

So went out for lunch today, first day of the sale. And these are the initial loots:




p.s. Fullybooked also went on sale one weekend a month ago. I was able to buy Christmas at The New Yorker, Heat (hardbound by Bill Buford) for 300 pesos! at the branch in Boni High Street. But that bookstore in general prices on the higher side relative to NBS.