Book Heavens II

Bazaar Chowrasta, Georgetown, Penang

While living in Penang...this place was my starbucks for cheap used books, and where I first bought Agatha Christie's crime thrillers .... On the ground floor you can indulge on many kinds of jeruk other than the wet market. Go up one floor and there are a small food court, clothes and shoe shops and finally the second hand book shops. It's dusty, musty and stuffed, but you'll get good books if you are willing to spend a few hours to scavenge the place. And oh, that is when you don't have any specific requirements. If you already know what you are looking for, e.g. title, category or author, you can just say it to the shopkeeper and he will direct you to the respective blocks of books. You can still even play with the price, especially if you are buying in bulks.

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 It's been a couple of years since I last went there...I wonder how it looks like now...

Kedai Buku Pustaka Mukmin, Jalan TAR, KL

                            

This book store is newly found by me...well, since I am not the kind of person who make frequent visits to the famous Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. This store is located right across the street from the Globe Silk Store and Da Vinci, not far from Sogo. It's main trade is Islamic books and school books but it also has a wide variety of educational books sorted by categories such as books about medicine, laws and acts, engineering, language, architecture and etc, not excluding malay novels too.  

These book shops are just some of the simple but lovely places for me to find books. It's a place to get loco, indeed! (..depending on your budget..uhuk..)

Oh, and by the way, the 30th Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair (KLIBF) is coming soon! See you there, InsyaAllah...