my Twilight books!!!

Thank God for good friends!!

After scouring practically ALL National Bookstores, Fullybooked branches, among others in Angeles and Metro Manila by phone, I have given up on finding a complete copy of all the 4 Twilight series books. A friend even ordered online but she wasn't able to get a confirmation yet. I refuse to read the Adobe version and all these notepad copies that have been proliferating at work. I love the smell of paper when I read a new book and it won't hurt my eyes besides. So i have to have the paperback/hardbound copies soon.Then when I logged on to Amazon, i saw that they have it in-stock. So I was thinking it must be available in some other countries. And then it hit me!! A friend is coming back home from Ireland for her wedding. Now when I think of any European country, I think of all these quaint little bookstores that are teeming with really rare finds and a few mainstream stuff as well. I could just picture out the Twilight books displayed in shelves and my hands are itching to reach across my imagination and snatch them. As it turns out, I didn't have to wish for a superpower to do that. I thickened my face and ask my friend if she could be so kind as to look for them for me. Now, I didn't realize that the books are actually quite heavy and the 4th book is in fact looking more like an Encyclopedia than a fiction novel. Had I known, I wouldn'd have had the gall to have her lug it from Dublin all the way to the Philippines. But a real trouper and good friend that she is, she, and my books, landed safely in the country. To cut the story short, I am now a proud owner of the 4 Meyer books. And the bonus is, although it is quite pricey when bought in Ireland, the bookstore was then running a sort of a 3-for-the-price-of-2 sale, so I didn't have to shell out that much. Ah, well, thank God for good friends.. and quaint bookstores. =)