This is why I love Booksale. The other day I called all the major bookstores, looking for Jonathan Carroll’s The Ghost in Love.

Sadly, all of them didn’t have it. I went to my favorite Booksale branch, the one at MCS, where the staff is warm and friendly, and knows me by name and asks how I am and why I wasn’t able to visit them for a long time (because I had no moolah) and remembers that I told them the reason before.

I first saw the book “Glass Soup” by Jonathan Carroll. It was only Php50 and I grabbed it and I think I even kissed it in my excitement. It was followed by my other wonderful findings, at only Php20 each! (except for the Berg book and the Dream Girl book)

Here’s my loot:

• The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• Until the real thing comes along by Elizabeth Berg
• The Best American Travel Writing 2002
• Chasing Cezanne by Peter Mayle (Which will be given to my mom)
• an almost new copy of Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
• Dream Girl by Laura Mechling
• Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll

Yup, a very merry Christmas indeed. Mmm, new books. :)