Since I had the day off, I went into Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) again today. In the morning I went to the botanical gardens/zoo, & I spent the afternoon in an English-language bookstore. I was like a kid in a candy store! My entire purchase cost me around $16, but at 300,000 Dong, it seemed really expensive.I got four books:
A biography of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam's beloved president
A book of Vietnamese legends - in Spanish!
A novel: Across the Nightengale Floor by Lian Hearn
Another novel: Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George
The first two books were published by a Vietnamese company, & the last two books came from the UK.
The available books that had been published in the US were much more expensive, so I decided against buying them, leaving them at the bookstore.
The last book is 875 pages long, so it should last me a while!
Hey Nancy,
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I don't get the part of you leaving them at the bookstore. How do you 'leave them at the bookstore' and have them 'last you a long time'??
:)
We haven't talked in a while, keep missing. I've been a smidge busy, but i'll catch up with you soon!
I bought books published in the UK because they were cheaper. The ones that I left at the bookstore were the more expensive ones imported from the US.
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