Bookstore booty

a funny thing happened on the way to the chalk art by the river event. marlon and i were sidetracked by a bookstore. not just any bookstore, mind you.

a bookstore that sold books for...

... get ready...

ONE DOLLAR APIECE!

ONE FREAKING DOLLAR!

(at the moment, one singapore dollar is equal to about 33 philippine pesos. you can check for yourself here. one dollar gets you to the minimum fare stage on an aircon bus, or a copy of the straits times, or a bottle of mineral water, or two glittery hair ties from a shop at cathay, with ten or twenty cents' change.)

so after trying to stop ourselves from peeing in our pants, the boyf and i indulged. how could we not?

i immediately set upon looking for reminders of simpler times. aside from a whole wall full of vintage ladybird classics (remember those thin, hardbound fairytale books?), i was happy to find these, and a whole lot more.

these, along with jessica's secret diary, are what i took home. upon rereading them, i realized that i love how jessica is written.

i got these, too:

plus this, out of pure curiosity. is this the same christopher nolan who was responsible for batman begins?

and when marlon showed me this hilarious, campy cheeseball, i simply could not resist. i simply had to know...

who would, indeed?

some books from marlon's little trove:

and the coup de grace,

which sells for about SGD 32 SGD, or over PhP 1,000. the book was in superb condition. marlon and i have many, many books that are in a much sorrier state.

it's going to take me at least a month to plow through everything we got. happiness!