For me, the month of October 2011 is the “Month of Book Sales.” First, the world’s largest book sale, Big Bad Wolf Book Sale, was held from Oct 7 – 16, 2011. Boasting 1.5 million books, coupled with 75 to 95% discount, it is a book sale for which bookworms are willing to lay down their lives.

Since the sale venue was at MAEPS Hall, which was very near my university, I went there on the first day, and I was shocked by the long queue just to enter the hall! Now, MAEPS is a already a big hall, and for a queue of about 200 people to be kept waiting outside only meant that the hall inside must have been packed to the rim.

Regretfully, I turned back, but I returned later in the evening on the same day with my wife and son, Zachary. The crowds were greatly diminished by then, and we could move freely about.