Deli's at work today and the kids are at home - more reason to not go out and shop. Their antics would definitely deter my enthusiasm. Retail therapy requires full concentration, okay!
So I went to Amazon.com - thank God for online shopping!! I am forever grateful to those who invented this online shopping thingy-majingy.
Browsed for hours looking for cheap yet fabulous handbags only to find that the 2 that I really fancied could not be shipped to Malaysia. Jeez. So much for the big talk about online shopping.
So I browsed for books instead only to find about The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
Apparently Amazon.com bought 1 of the 7 available copies of JK Rowling's handwritten book. Not only that - they paid a hefty 1 million pounds for it too!
The book contains 5 fairy tales, scribbled and illustrated by the author herself. It's only 157 pages - unlike her series of Harry Potter. I reckon it must have cost her a lot of time to write the same story 7 times and to draw the same pictures. Kudos to her for coming up with such idea. It was mentioned that she's donating the proceeds to The Children Voice Campaign - a charity she co-founded to help improve the lives of institutionalized children across
Here's a sneak peak.
How is that possible?
4 comments:
what? there were 7 of those handwritten books? i thought there was only one.
no wonder we were given a half-thot book that is the deathly hallow. she haven't got time for it! :p
Lara,
Yup. There are 7 of those. They even have reviews of the stories - with spoilers in Amazon!
If i have a million quid, i'd get one too!
oh crap..ada ke? well, i'll just have to wait to see of they publish it...
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