@ Anna Blume - A cozy book swap and chat meetup!

The "classical" bookswap is simple:

• We meet in a café and put the book(s) we brought down on the tables.
• We browse and discuss the books with one another while sipping coffee or hot chocolate, or eating cake.
• We write our names down on any books we’d like to take home (post-its and pens provided).
• At the end of the evening, negotiate any books that are contended and take a new-to-you book home!

Books/happiness shared are books/happiness multiplied! A Bookswap is 10 times better than a Book Club because you can talk about ALL the books instead of just one!

This is a great way to give your books a new home and make room for new books: that book you feel guilty for not having read even though it's been sitting on your bedside table for the last 5 years, the book you liked but didn't love, the book you loved so much you want everyone to read it, the book you somehow own three copies of, that book you absolutely hated even though everyone else loves it, and so on.

Moreover, you will meet fellow readers, get a new book or two, and several book recommendations. We’ve often had readers experience books they wouldn't normally buy and enjoy it.

GROUP EXPECTATIONS for PLEASANT SWAPPING

• Please bring a book! It's not that you bring one you take one, but do try your best to bring something.
• Books stay on the tables, open for sharing, until you are ready to leave so that everyone can have a look. We are notably not first come first serve. Please wait until you are leaving to bag the book.
• If two or more people want the only copy of a book, negotiate. Maybe one of you reads it first and then gives it to the others. Or perhaps they have found another book instead. Or leave it to fate and toss a coin. The best part: now you have found somebody whose taste you can really admire. In any case, please don't walk away with a book with several names on it without letting the others know.
  These negotiations are fun and easy, so don't shy away from a book because there's