This tuesday was the start of every book worm's favourite annual holiday
- BOKREAN, or THE GREAT BOOK SALE.
Once started as an initiative to pump up dwindling book sales figures and blowing air into the dying corpse of the book market. To think it used to kick around larger amounts of money than Christmas... But while I detest Krimmus The Great Book Sale is something I look forward to every year. This despite the fact that book shops these days seem to raid the same wholesalers for whatever 5 different thrillers and detective novels someone forgot in a dusty corner of a warehouse. Or some cook book that didn't do too well when first published.
If you're lucky though, like me, you live in a city with a book shop dedicated to all things nerdy which means you'll instead find an assortment of scifi, urban fantasy and fantasy books with savagely reduced price tags. They'll also cull "shelf warmers" to make space for new fun stuff.
I start with a budget. A reasonable amount of money.
And then I break that budget. With gusto.
