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Blog EntryMar 19, '08 6:42 AM
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A scan of the published article (Saturday, March 15 Manila Bulletin Students & Campuses Section), based on my previous blog entry. Another full-pager account of my exploits, hehehe.

And since the photo credits I submitted were cut from the captions, here they are:
John Buckman: Photo credit Diana Elliot, courtesy of BookMooch.com (bottom right)
bookmooch photo: Photo credit Sheila Newbery, courtesy of BookMooch.com (upper right)


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ninamartian wrote on Mar 19, '08
Uy, nice! Congrats Blooey!
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sumthinblue wrote on Mar 20, '08
Tnx Nina :)
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sumthinblue wrote on Mar 30, '08
Mooch from me! http://bookmooch.com/m/bio/sumthinblue. New books added March 31st!
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ninamartian wrote on Mar 31, '08
What's the difference between trade paperback and mass market copies? I should've nicked that French Harry Potter from the resort I stayed at in Donsol lol I saw the err adult cover version of one HP book in Melbourne. Very beautiful. But I wasn't collecting HP books so I didn't buy XD

Tintin! you have Tintin in your list! I used to have all the comics, but i made the mistake of lending them out to my classmates =_=

I have a hard back copy of Ya Yas in bloom by Rebecca wells and Diary of a mad mother to be by Laura Wolf. You interested? Not in mint condition, but pretty good. With the unsightly price sticker tho -_-

I should update my book mooch profile. And stop using your comment page as a mini-blog lol
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sumthinblue wrote on Mar 31, '08
Haha, you can "mini-blog" over here anytime! :)

(Warning, one of my freakish book compulsions is about to get unleashed)
Mass market is the "pocketbook" size, smaller and cheaper binding, hence the spines crease even after just a single reading and before long pages easily yellow and start falling out; that sorta thing. Trade paperbacks are larger; they're usually about the same size of the hardcover edition (pages of the text are identical), only softbound... Paper quality is way better than mass market, don't discolor as fast as mass market (some are even acid free!) and binding is more sturdy. TPs are slightly more expensive than mass market, but are cheaper in the long run as the books last longer. I don't get mass market anymore if I can help it; I'm now in the process of "upgrading" my existing mass market paperbacks.

I saw French Harry Potter books 1 and 2 in a used bookstore in Bangkok back in Feb, but they weren't very cheap (nothing beats booksale) so I didn't buy them. Waiting for them to come up in bookmooch though.

I'm trying to complete the whole collection of Tintin; I've got 6 so far, 5 bought (at 40% off courtesy of the Powerbooks birthday blowout) and 1 mooched but so far no other copies have come up.

I find the whole Ya Yas series a bit too hokey so I'll pass on that one, but the Diary of a Mad Mother To Be looks interesting, I'll have to mooch the prequel though coz I don't have that one yet.

Add me as a friend when you get your BM up and running!
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ninamartian wrote on Mar 31, '08
Ahh, I see. Yup, trade paperback books are love! So much better to handle.

OMG, I remember the time I was collecting my Tintin comics. There was this old Expressions branch at Farmer's plaza I always go to because they were selling the Tintin comics for only Php93, while other bookstores were selling them for Php300! But that was the old Tintin version; the pages aren't glossy yet.

I'm in my travel book phase right now, so most of the books not related to travel have been moved out of my bookcase XD
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sumthinblue wrote on Mar 31, '08
Damn they sell for P350 apiece now, and even more expensive in BKK and Sing!

:) I've been mooching some Peter Mayle books (to add to my Chasing Cezanne), he has some travel books also about Provence, and some other fiction novels that are part mystery and part travelogue :)
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ninamartian wrote on Mar 31, '08
Peter Mayle! his Provence trilogy was very nice. I got lucky and chanced upon all 3 books at the local library in Melbourne (why don't we have awesome libraries in the Philippines??)

I remember that time I found a Bill Bryson and a Frances Mayes book at booksale. Php120, both trade paperbacks! And they retail for what? Php700? Lucky!

Hmmm, this may be my chance to find the other Peter Moore books that I'm missing. Goodness know how hard it is to find travel books in Manila -_-

That reminds me, do you have Mathilda yet?
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sumthinblue wrote on Mar 31, '08
I got my Under the Tuscan Sun for P80 at book sale hehehe, also a trade paperback (I dont think it comes as mass market)... I'm not much into memoirs and non-fiction, so I'm more into Peter Mayle's novels. I just got A Good Year this morning, can't wait to read that one :)

I did a search on BM and there are a bunch of Peter Moore books available :)

Mathilda by Mary Shelley? I don't have that one, is it good? I just have Matilda by Roald Dahl :)
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ninamartian wrote on Apr 1, '08
Nyek, I have the Roald Dahl Mathilda.

I saw the Peter Moore book I wanted at BM. Yan tuloy, na enganyo na ko mag list ng books ko XD
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sumthinblue wrote on Apr 1, '08
Yay! The local pool is 148 members and counting
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sumthinblue wrote on Apr 8, '08
162 members this week! Yay!
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