Big Bad Wolf Book Sale 2018~!!

Assalam and hye everyone~!!

The other day, I joined a contest by Big Bad Wolf Books via Instagram. Surprisingly, I was one of the many winners of the contest. The prize was VIP passes for the most anticipated book sale of the year - Big Bad Wolf Book Sale 2018!

Main poster for BBWKL 2018

Winning VIP passes from BBW

The VIP pass is only valid on VIP Day, which is on 6th December 2018. BBWKL 2018 officially starts from 7th December till 17th December 2018. So, with the VIP pass, I was able to go to the book sale earlier than most other people.

The VIP passes ^_^

The last time I went to BBW was in 2016. I wrote a post about it (you may read it here). I did not have the opportunity to go the last year's BBW as I had other matters to attend to and was busy for another event.

So, on the said day, I went to BBWKL 2018 at MIECC, The Mines with Hannah and a friend, Z. We went there a bit late in the day and entered the hall at nearly 9.00 p.m. We only had two hours to hunt for books as VIP Day ended at 11.00 p.m. - before BBWKL starts again the next day at 10.00 a.m. non-stop for 24 hours until 17th December 2018.

It's a must to take a picture in front of the BBW sign

My obvious aims were getting Harry Potter And The Cursed Child and any crime/thriller books. I was very happy to see a section dedicated to books of the wizarding world (refer to the pics below).

Yessss!!!

Books of the wiarding world

Like always, I would head to the crime/thriller section to pick up my treasure.

I also went to the children's section to find books for Hannah, and my niece and nephew too. Many exercise books were available, so I managed to grab a few for Hannah as she will be in Year 4 next year (how time flies).

Comic books!

There was a cafe for bookhunters to rest and refill their energy - Cafe Wolf.

At the end of the day, we managed to put most of our loot into the trolley bag that we brought along. It is a wise decision to bring a trolley bag or something similar if you're planning to splurge a lot of money on books here. Besides, every plastic bag is charged for 20 sen per bag, so bring your own shopping bag too.

Our cart of books

Hannah with the trolley bag

Here are the books and other stuff that we bought.

I must say that I regret not going to the RM8 section as more valuable books are placed there, according to what my friend said. Maybe I might go again to BBW, if I have a bit more budget, haha.. If you plan to go to BBW, you can still do so until 17th December 2018. Happy hunting!

Thanks for reading and happy blogging~!!

[Review] The World is a Dark and Lovely Place

The World Is A Dark And Lovely Place by Carol Chu Mei Yin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars ☆

Synopsis:
-- A collection of 19 beautifully-written poems. The poems have influences of Early Modern and Late Modern English. Most of the poems display the feelings and thoughts about life and other issues, written in the first person point of view.

Likes:
-- My favourites are "Rainbow's End", "A Friend", and "Trust Not Your Broken Heart". I love reading these three poems especially. Despite being a Linguistics graduate and having learned a minor course in Literature, I am not good in poetry and have not read many (apart from what I've learned in school and university). I'm amazed how people can write poems so beautifully, and this collection of poems is a really nice read. Thank you, Carol. :)

My review on Goodreads

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I received this poetry e-book from the author herself, Carol Chu Mei Yin. I've been following her for awhile on Instagram via the bookstagram/bookish community. She had wanted to give her e-book to several readers in exchange of an honest review. With more or less 42 pages, it is quite a quick read and an interesting one too. Like I have said in my Goodreads review above, I haven't read much poetry, and Carol's poems are beautiful. What I love about poetry is that it makes readers become more aware of life and the surroundings, and expand readers' knowledge and vocabulary as well.

One of my fave poems in the poetry e-book

About the author, Carol

If you would like to read the poems, do contact Carol on the following links. Let's support our local poets and writers (・ω<)～☆

Email

Instagram

Twitter

Goodreads

Wattpad

Thanks for reading and happy blogging~!!

Big Bad Wolf Book Sale 2016~!!

Assalam and hye everyone~!!

Well, it seems that I have not updated my blog for over a year, hihi.. Lots of stuff happening in my life, so I've left the blogging world for a (long) while.

So, on 17th December 2016, I went to the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale 2016 at MIECC @ The Mines. Hannah tagged along, it was her first time ever going to a book sale event. For those of you who do not know, Big Bad Wolf (or BBW, in short) is a book sale event held every year, usually in December. Books are on sale up until 95%!

This is an event that I look forward to every year. Besides being held in at the end of the year, BBW also has mini book sale events occasionally, especially the popular "box sale" - where you have to buy a box there and try to put in as many books as you can in the box.

Hannah in front of the BBW sign

At BBW 2016, Hannah and I met with a "real" Red Riding Hood. Here's a pic as proof :P

Me, Red Riding Hood, and Hannah

Besides that, we also found a huge Red Riding Hood book. So, of course, we had to take a selfie of it.

After maybe 3 hours, Hannah and I made our purchase of books, summing up to nearly RM150. I was on a tight budget, so not many books could be bought, huhuhu~... T^T Our book haul is as the following picture:

Our book haul :D

The best haul ever was getting the Barbie bookends along with 4 Barbie storybooks for only RM25.

Did any of you go to BBW 2016? 

Thanks for reading & happy blogging~!!

Book Shopping~!!!

Salam n hye everyone~!!


Before I rant on about the abovementioned title, I'd juz like to say domo arigato tomodachi for your concerned comments in my previous entry. No matter how sad I am, your comments & visits to this blog has made me super hepi. ^_^


OK, so last Tuesday I went to splurge, oopss I mean, spend the 1Malaysia book vouchers that were esp given to all uni students.

I've already surveyed the MPH store at SACC Mall the day before that. But unfortunately, there weren't much interesting books & there were too many students around (from UiTM, MSU, PTPTL etc). And too bad I didn't find Wan lounging around there, hehe.. >_<


So I went to the MPH store in Mid Valley instead. And here's what I bought wif RM100 (voucher, not cash..hehe..)

2 books from the same author, Emily Giffin. "Something Blue" is actually the sequel to "Something Borrowed", hihi~. (I'm reading it now) ^_^

Books & a set of flash cards for Hannah

A book for Aslam's b'day in Feb

Some stuff I bought for Ijah

I still have another RM100 voucher to spend. Juz let me finish reading these books first, hihi~.. ^_^


Thanks for reading & happy blogging~!!

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