Bookshops

I love bookshops- I could spend hours in these. One in particular worth mentioning is Orn's bookshop in Chiang Rai- we only stayed in this town overnight on our way to Laos- but I went to this shop twice in the 24 hours we were there. You can sell and buy books here- and I can't imagine that he makes much money doing it because he gives you such a great price to buy your books from you, that you hardly spend anything buying books from him. It makes me think that books are just an obsession or hobby for him- and they take over the entire upstairs of his house- so maybe he had to start selling them to appease his wife or something. :) He also recommended another shop in Luang Prabang, Laos (which we arrived in yesterday) that I guess does a straight exchange for books, and you pay $1, which goes to an orphanage- we'll be checking that out soon.
I just finished the first 3 books of the Twilight series in a week- easy reading- which also occupied me while I was sick again in Chiang Mai- my latest guess would be Dengue Fever according to the symptoms listed in the book- but I pulled through alright.
So, I've picked up another 3 books, which I'll add to my Shelfari on here once I've finished them.
There are book exchanges everywhere in Asia, and I think it's such a great idea- I'm not sure that this really exists in the States, I'll have to look in to it more when I get home. But everywhere you go here pretty much has a shop that you can buy/sell/exchange books at, and I love the idea of reading something that so many before me have already enjoyed- props to the recycling factor here!