Meetup Ratings and Featured Comments
Number: 14 recent ratings
Average:
"a nice mix of people - all friendly & chatty, which is nice."
"we are all lovely!"
"Come and meet us - what have you got to lose?"
"As always very nice people..."
"Its nice to have a change and get up to York every once in a while."
"Great mix of people and books (thought I'd mention the reason we meet...). Thanks."
"Nice to have met you."
"lovely to meet everyone. :o)"
"A good mix of ages and a great crowd."
"A nice friendly group."
"I had a really great night, it was so much fun to meet up with like minded people. Looking forward to the next event !!"
"a very interesting mix of admin assistants, students, just-generally-lovel y and the strangely-fixated :-) It makes for a great range of discussions and a nice cohesive drift of cross-polinating interests. Would make a very good ven diagram."
"I like everyone there."
Bookcrossing is the act of releasing books you no longer want, either in the wild or to a friend or another book lover. Bookcrossing.com is the website that makes it possible to track where these books go, and bookcrossers are an international collection of book lovers. Here (http://www.bookcrossi...) is more information about Bookcrossing in general.
The York Bookcrossing Meetup Group - http://bookcrossing.m... - is a group of people who enjoy reading - and who meet to talk about and swap books with other like-minded folk over a drink or two. We?ve been going since September 2004 but the group changes all the time and new faces are always being added to the mix. We are pretty mixed in terms of age and background and are always happy to see someone new.
Don't worry if you've never heard of bookcrossing before and can't bear to part with any of your books. We'd love for you to come along anyway - the more the merrier.
The books we swap are registered on www.bookcrossing.com before the swap and when we?ve finished reading those we have picked up, we then pass them on to someone else who might like to read them. Because the books have been registered at www.bookcrossing.com we can see where they travel to ? and some of them have had strange voyages!
The books on offer on any given night are as varied as the readers and there is sure to be something to tempt your fancy! All we ask is that you bring a couple of books with you - if you can - in return for the ones you take away.
We are currently using The Golden Lion public house in Church Street (York City Centre) for our venue. There?s little formality, just show up with some registered books and look for the group of friendly bickerers. The bar serves food until ~9pm.
If you find yourself craving new books to read between Meets, you can also see where books are being left in the York area by signing up to release alerts on bookcrossing.com at - http://www.bookcrossi... - this means every time a book is left on a park bench or in the cinema you can go hunting for it!
There are other local meets in:
- Durham (http://uk.groups.yaho...)
- Hull (http://groups.google....)
- Leeds (http://bookcrossing.m...)
- Sheffield (http://groups.yahoo.c...)
- as well as other parts of the UK and the rest of the world.
If you have any questions about the York Bookcrossing Meetup Group or bookcrossing in general feel free to drop me a line.
Your Host,
Paul
Meetup name: The-Green-Man
BC name: TheGreenMan