When Hearts Are Light Again Book Buy

Hi, guys!

For those of you who don't live in Indonesia this might not interest you but if you happen to be going to Big Bad Wolf Book Fair in the well-nigh time to come, then do read forth!

Large Bad Wolf Volume Fair or as we similar to telephone call it, BBW, is a book fair from Malaysia that comes to Indonesia every year. This is the third year I went to the one'due south in Jakarta and and so far it'southward super fun for a bookworm like me.

As the title said, it's a book fair so pretty much every single book is at lx% to 80% off. The books are more often than not terminal year or older ; and so don't wait to find Dan Chocolate-brown' Digital Fortress here. You might detect his Da Vinci Lawmaking' though. Books are added and restock everyday so even if stop by everyday, you might notice new books.

But anyway, for the last 3 years BBW has been held at Water ice BSD. The volume off-white unremarkably lasts effectually a week. This year it'due south from 1-11 March . The easiest way to become there is definitely by car. Parking is aplenty but weekends definitely decorated; worry not, there are valet services available and it's a flat rate of 50 thousand rupiah plus parking ticket. Personally, my husband and I had been using valet for the final ii years.

Final year I went on a Dominicus around 11AM and at that place were no line whatsoever but this year there's a long line to enter the volume fair (information technology's at hall 6, leave at hall 10). The line is generally because of the handbag cheque. Y'all can't bring food or drinks (even just plain water is forbidden, I discover that super annoying simply then again pages of books practise get ruined because of h2o).

If you do get hungry or thirsty, there's a food court area with a few stalls inside the volume fair but I didn't endeavour it since I make certain I was well-fed and hydrated to confront the ocean of people. My friend and her sister ate inside and they said the food were bully. Also, you can't bring your cart inside the food court area and there's a ane hour limit of unattended carts . So information technology might be a good idea to have turns.

Equally you tin see the book fair is HUGE. It's v halls of size and at that place were tables and tables of books. Basically you tin go directly to the expanse of your interest but honestly every tables were then interesting. Information technology'due south quite a lot of walking so make sure to wearable comfy footwear. There'southward no organisation whatsoever so if you lot find a volume you similar, just put it in your cart and you tin edit them later . That'due south basically what I did because I tin't, for the life of me, find a volume that I establish ten minutes ago. So I but piled any books that interest me in my cart and I edit them before we went to the cashier.

My husband and I went on a Saturday around 1.30PM so it was really crowded. If you can, definitely go at weekday before lunch fourth dimension . They open 24HOURS/solar day so if you're a dark owl, I'm guessing anytime later on midnight will be quiet. Or, if you work, you can swing by before piece of work hours. I wouldn't suggest that tho since it took me 3 hours just to browse around . And I wasn't even doing serious browsing, just skimming really.

The fiction section was pretty good. I found plenty titles that I accept never heard before and truly relied on goodreads.com rating to decide which one to buy or not. I found four interesting novels and ended upwardly with 2. I got difficult encompass novels for only eighty thousand rupiah/each which is a very adept deal. Outside the off-white, a hard cover novel can hands go above 200 thousand rupiah . The religion and self-help department were besides pretty good. I actually piled five books from religion and self-help, but simply three make the cut.

Indonesian section was groovy, I estimate. I didn't really browse around. Tried to wait the religion department of Indonesian but most of them are for Moslems. The books are cheaper in Indonesian section tho! It can goes as cheap as 30 yard rupiah/ book.

The unpredictable fun section is really the children section! I'm your typical aunt who loves to spoil her niece and nephew and so browsing the kids' books were actually enjoyable. Practise you know about augmented reality books? Basically, yous point your phone at the volume and the character pops out. You tin can even colour and tickle said grapheme. If y'all accept BCA card (debit or credit) and buy vii books of these Little Hippos AR books, you'll become one for free, which exactly what I did. I saved two for my niece and nephew, one for a birthday present, and sold the remainder.

Other than AR books, there are plenty of activeness books and picture books. I personally love buying activity books for my nephew since well, it keeps him busy, and it helps train his skill. My niece is not quondam enough to empathize activity book. She loves the stickers tho!

Now that you got your books, you can edit them. I normally just scan the internet and I trust goodreads.com since information technology'due south 90% accurate for me personally. I first had iv fiction novels, 5 non fictions, and 14 children books. I concluded up with ii fiction, 3 not fictions, and ten children books (8 of them are the AR books). I ended upwards spend over 1 million rupiah so I was eligible for BCA cash backs but I was besides lazy to get them. The cash dorsum tin be in a BBW voucher class or points form. If you don't plan to come up back to the book off-white then definitely get the points.

When I went at that place, at that place were at least l cashiers on the clock and so worry not, you won't wait in line for too long! I think we waited for a total of ten minutes. You can utilise debit or credit carte du jour. There'due south a special lane for cash tho.

Overall I had fun at the book fair. The staff were overnice but not much of a help when you ask where to notice a sure book; since there's no organisation, I can't really blame them. At that place is a JNE outside so if you're a "jastip" service, you can send them right abroad at ICE. There is too light snacks and drinks exterior.

If you lot practise desire to bring kids, I wouldn't suggest it unless information technology's weekdays. I barely had space to drag my cart and constantly bumped into people.

Anyhow, thank you for reading and I hope you'll notice some good books!

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