My Visit to the Chennai Book Fair 2013 and Haul!

I love reading books.They are my best companions :) Also since I usually travel to long distances nothing beats boredom than a suspense thriller :)

The Book fair in Chennai is held every year in the month of January and I have been visiting it for 7 or 8 years!FYI, this is the 36th book fair with about 747 stalls and 450 participants! 10 lakh titles and 1 crore books! 

I visited it yesterday and walked like a zombie :P I am planning to visit it again.It is like a whole world of books where I can get trapped and not even realize ;) 

Sharing some pictures :)

Sorry for the low quality pictures I didn't take my cam plus I was so engrossed in the stalls that I nearly forgot to take snaps :P

And My haul :

What's inside those bags???? My mum was super sweet and bought me so many books since I am officially broke :D  Luv u Mum :* :* 

I wanted to get the Life is what u make it and 7 Secrets of Shiva too :P


There was this offer in one of d stalls (don't remember d name) where u could take 3 novels for 100 bucks.That was too gud an offer to pass.But the novels were really old and mostly adult stuff.I had to wade thru a lot to get these 3.

James patterson is one of my favorites and I have heard a lot about the Stephanie Plum series from the firangi book forums.The Karen Robards one I got on impluse :)

And the Dessert of Yday ;)

 No Book shopping is complete without Ruskin Bond! I got this unabridged collection of his books.It has :

• The Room on the Roof
• Vagrants On the valley
• Flight of Pigeons
• Delhi is not Far
• The Sensualist
• A handful of nuts

I own most of his other books except the ghost collections.I am not much inclined to get them as I am terrified of ghosts and ghost stories :( Let's see if I do muster up some courage to get them :)

And yes this is what I wore yday!

So that's it! Have a gud day and Chennaites do visit the book fair :)

P.S: That is officially the first Book haul of 2013! keeping fingers crossed to reach my target :)
P.P.S: The books are available on online sites at lower rates but nothing can beat real time shopping! What say?? ;)