Bookcrossers' Meeting

Last night I went to the monthly meeting of the local Bookcrossers in the Crown Pub here in Chertsey. We have been meeting every second Wednesday of the month for about a year and half now (phew – time really is running!!!) and it’s always great fun to catch up with everybody's news, particularly of course on what we’ve been reading, what other bookcrossing meetings people have been to, and what books we have wild released or found where…and of course, to swap our latest reads as well!

For those who don’t know bookcrossing: the word was added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004 and described as “n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise”. I think the idea is great and I’ve been a member for just over two years now. If you would like to learn more about it I’ve put their worldwide website in the link section to the right: do have a look; it explains it quite well in more detail, and if you are interested you can sign up there and then (it’s free and very easy to handle). You can also find my virtual bookshelf – of course under coolboxuk – and see what I’ve been reading over the last years and what I’ve got piled up and waiting!

And here is a photo of one of our meetings – actually one of the first, in summer 2005. The group has grown since then although not everybody comes every time, so most meetings are still quite intimate in size (yesterday was very much so - we were only four!). The sitting area we are using here is behind the reception (The Crown is also a hotel) rather than in the pub – it’s quieter there and not as crowded, since our meetings often collide with “football TV evenings”…

Credits: this is a photo of a non-digi layout: everything used is from Club Scrap except the little letter peel-offs from Crafts Creations