I’ve been a big fan of book fairs ever since I was a child. I hunted for comics and Karl May books, then gamebooks, then sci-fi, and so on. I usually visit them multiple times so that I don’t miss anything. Couldn’t do the multiple-visit tour this year due to my work trip where I damaged my computer and the consequences of that. At least I visited it once.
The Alley of Books’24 is happening right now on Vitosha Boulevard and near NDK.
Here’s my record-breaking harvest:
- Bion by Satanasov is a comic book. Got the first part. I’ve heard good things about it
- 2 Gamebooks by Lubomir Nikolov, frequently featured here
- Dodger by Terry Pratchett. Pratchett influenced me as a youth and is one of my favorite writers. I missed 3-4 of his books, and here we are – filling a void in my Pratchettist degree
- Travis Baldree’s second book – a fantasy bookstore?
- Brandon Sanderson’s The Sunlit Man from Cosmere
- Orconomics vol 2. This time I’ll be prepared for a bloody fantasy rather than a satire.
There were more books I wanted to buy but sitting on the shelves is not perfect. I challenge myself to read 5 out of these 7 by the end of October. I’m the most excited about Bion and Dodger.
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When I visited Sofia in 1996, there was a book sale going on… I want to say it was near where the very first McDonald’s in Sofia used to be. I remember buying a book about Nancy Kerrigan there. I bought it because it was in English and I was desperate for something to read! LOL… I remember reading the whole thing while sitting near the cathedral.
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Slaveykov Square used to be an open book market. It’s now just a square.
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