on vampires and bookstores...

take a look at my october 8, 2008 entry from my republic memoir...(eewww) can't believe i sacrificed blogging because of twilight series.

i remember sue asked me around september 2008 if i have read the twilight series...i said no, i was so busy in republic that i couldn't find time for some paperbacks...she said her brother got the books from abroad august of 2008...that was around the last book of the series, breaking dawn, went out. since i love black, the cover of the book stuck in my mind easily...

october 4-6, 2008 came, that was the sisterhood with makati if my republic memory is still functioning...the moment we had dinner at glorietta, i sneaked out and visit my favorite bookstore, fullybooked...then lo and behold, the books i'm looking for were neatly stacked, nobody seemed interested in browsing. i bought the three available books in the series.. the third to the last book, eclipse, wasn't available. i think it was there way of keeping some excitement...how can you finish the series without the third book...so i'm sure they intended to make it available on the later part...when the public began to talk about the book, and when the movie began some early publicity...(cat theory only, ok?)

in manila, i started reading twilight. knowing that we had a whole day activity with makati city, still, i kept on reading until two in the morning. my roommate nesaleh, who grew up in the mountains of republic (haha) and hits the sack at eight in the evening, cannot bare the thought that i can stay awake and read until my eyes hurt..hehehe sorry nesah, i have to spill the beans that you're sleeping habit is so barrio-tic..

even tita edna or taed, as we fondly call her, my seatmate in the plane going back to bacolod was curious what book am i reading...taed had this fear in flying that i kept her company by narrating to her the edward-bella story since i'm half-way in reading the book...

i got the eclipse book at the national bookstore in bacolod...i had my name on waitlist... i was so persistent that i finally had the book in my hands..it was a loonggg story...hahaha

then after the twilight saga, i got hooked in more vampire stories. i discovered charlaine harris' sookie stackhouse series. seven books..some i got in national bookstore here in bacolod, then others in fullybooked in manila. the problem with national bookstore here is, whenever you  look  for not so popular books, you're going to have a hard time finding it in their shelves. but after i completed my sookie stackhouse series, trueblood (the hbo series based on the book) was out in cable tv, national bookstore laid all the books in their display table. sheeesh.

the 8th book came out later...my cousin aileen in australia sent me a downloaded from internet version, my eyes hurt reading from my computer screen and i cannot concentrate, so i kept on coming back to national bookstore until i found this.

oh, and after the sookie thing, there's the circle trilogy of nora roberts...i borrowed sue's paperback, but i haven't completed reading the other two books :((

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now whenever i see kristen stewart's face in tv, i shut it off..i cannot bear to look at her face, her acting, the slouching posture, the tired and hungry face, everything about her. and robert pattinson?? ugh...shoot me when you see me lining up for the fourth movie. kill me!

enough of vampires. goodnight real people!!