WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS (2012 EDITION)
Jul. 21st, 2012 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogThe Hong Kong Book Fair is currently in progress.
We just got back a couple of hours ago.
Regular readers here know a few things about the HKBF:
1. It’s essentially a huge discount bookstore that opens for one week a year and charges you money to shop there.
2. English-language books account for maybe 15% of all the books on display.
3. Of all of the English-language books available, 75% of them will be either business/finance/self-help books, every young adult series currently in print and every Sexy Vampire series currently in print. The other 25% will be written by Stieg Larsson, Sophie Kinsella, Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, Sidney Sheldon, James Patterson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Mitch Albom, Malcolm Gladwell and George RR Martin.
Which means you now know everything you need to know about this year’s HKBF.
As usual, I’m exaggerating, though not by much. Seriously, the only real change this year is that – predictably – The Hunger Games is this year’s Harry Potter.
Well, there’s one other significant change – the discounts are higher this year. Last year the standard discount was around 20%. This year it’s 30%.
Anyway, you don’t care about that. You want to see the booty.
Behold.
I’m particularly pleased with the Richard Stark haul. I bought a few Parker novels from the same booth last year, and made a point to revisit them. I confess I was a little miffed when the booth assistant said they could get me the whole series for a serious discount – I’d have taken them up on it if I didn’t already own some books from the series.
Anyway, that’s another 13 books to stack on the “to read” pile. Because God knows what you’d have to read on LJ if I didn’t post book reviews once a month.
Well read,
This is dF
We just got back a couple of hours ago.
Regular readers here know a few things about the HKBF:
1. It’s essentially a huge discount bookstore that opens for one week a year and charges you money to shop there.
2. English-language books account for maybe 15% of all the books on display.
3. Of all of the English-language books available, 75% of them will be either business/finance/self-help books, every young adult series currently in print and every Sexy Vampire series currently in print. The other 25% will be written by Stieg Larsson, Sophie Kinsella, Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, Sidney Sheldon, James Patterson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Mitch Albom, Malcolm Gladwell and George RR Martin.
Which means you now know everything you need to know about this year’s HKBF.
As usual, I’m exaggerating, though not by much. Seriously, the only real change this year is that – predictably – The Hunger Games is this year’s Harry Potter.
Well, there’s one other significant change – the discounts are higher this year. Last year the standard discount was around 20%. This year it’s 30%.
Anyway, you don’t care about that. You want to see the booty.
Behold.
I’m particularly pleased with the Richard Stark haul. I bought a few Parker novels from the same booth last year, and made a point to revisit them. I confess I was a little miffed when the booth assistant said they could get me the whole series for a serious discount – I’d have taken them up on it if I didn’t already own some books from the series.
Anyway, that’s another 13 books to stack on the “to read” pile. Because God knows what you’d have to read on LJ if I didn’t post book reviews once a month.
Well read,
This is dF
