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Great hunting at the bookstores this weekend. Fully Booked at Bonifacio High Street and Powerbooks at Greenbelt are both having sales and offering discounts of up to 80 percent. I got a stack of books including several John Rebus detective novels by Ian Rankin, NYRB Classics, Penguin biographies of Penguin founder Allen Lane and the much-maligned Sonia Orwell, a spy novel by one of the pioneers of the genre, Eric Ambler, and a hardcover The Family That Couldn’t Sleep by D.T. Max—an investigation into fatal insomnia, kuru, scrapie, mad cow disease, and other strange conditions caused by prions. Sixteen books, average cost per book: less than 120 pesos.

By the way the name ‘Bonifacio Global City’ is too long, ‘BGC’ doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, ‘Boni’ is a street in Mandaluyong, and The Fort, Serendra, and High Street refer to different places. So we’ve taken to calling Bonifacio Global City ‘BoGlo’, a contraction coined by Ricky Villabona. That would make the regulars ‘Bogglies’. Some people will pronounce it ‘Boh-Gloh’, some ‘Bow-Glow’, and pretentious twits will feign Italian and say ‘Boh-lio’. (Back when Fully Booked was called Page One, we heard it called ‘Pa-gee-oh-neh’.)