Hamburg bookswapping club

As I don't have a life, my time is quite flexible. As far as I know, we have no plans for those dates.

Would anyone be willing to meet for coffee one-to-one to swap books?

GreyWitch,
I would be more than happy to meet up one on one for books and coffee. I only work a few hours a week so my time is flexible. When did you have in mind?

Where do you live? I live in Holm-Seppensen which is about 45km from Hamburg but the train station is a block away. As I need to go to the British shop off Eppendorferbaum, I could combine the trip.

Any books I swap would be yours to pass on. Other than Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon, I don't re-read books and need to reduce the amount I have. Also, I don't have to worry about having them returned, for this reason I never lend out any Discworld book and would want Gaimon returned.

I read to escape so most of my books are escapism fiction such as fantasy and mystery. I do branch off into other genres if the book is good; The Time Traveler's Wife, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Wicked, Son of Witch, and all things Neil Gaimon (and DVD of Neverwhere), Edward Rutherfurd, Dickens, Austen, Trollope etc.

I recently bought a Palm TX for reading eBooks (very good) and no longer need to keep my Classics because they can be gotten free from Project Gutenberg and other places. I am willing to give them all to a good home; but as I have so many, anyone wanting them would have to come here.

I have tried to donate my books to the local library but I have too many. If anyone knows of an organization that would accept a large quantity of books in English, please let me know. I would rather give them away than take them to Stressemann St for 1 EUR each.

I am going to have to gather my books about me a make a list.

GreyWitch,
Time Traveler's Wife... my all time favorite book! I loved Neil's Stardust. And Project Guttenberg is fabulous, isn't it? My husband found a book on there from 1887 that he couldn't find anywhere else. We would love to come get some of your classics - I have made a pact with myself that I am going to read more of them.

Everyone,
As for the official bookswap, after private messaging with both Kathryn (Koala) and Adi, it seems the best date for all of us is Saturday, July 21st. The first time we met at Cafe May in Eimsbuettel and it was lovely. Smoke free, lots of space, delicious coffee and goodies. Grey, if you are going to the English Books and Foods shop, you can walk through the S-Bahn there on the corner over to the U-Bahn and it would be just a few stops up the U-2 line for you.

Kathryn,
Would you be willing to make a reservation for us at Cafe May for the 21st? You pick the time as I know you have limited amounts of it.

Looking forward to seeing everyone then!

Laurel

ok!
wonderful.
I will reserve the 21st at Cafe May for ?? people

cookie
Marymanu
grey witch
koala

silty?
adi?
shell?

anyone else???

How's about 3pm?

Me too!!

What time?

I have posted a Blog of the books I have to swap/give, GreyWitch's Blog. If you are interested in a particular book and will be at the Swap, let me know and I will bring it.

Laurel, let me know if you want a particular Classic, I think I have them all; Trollope, Hardy, Austen, Bronte, Dickens, etc. and I've collected several DVDs of the Classics which I would want back. Some I bought and some recorded from TV (Gods bless satellite). Besides Gutenberg, another great source of eBooks is ftp://ebook-archive.myftp.biz:47624/. I doubt that I will live long enough to read all those I've collected. I can be anal when it comes to reading COMPLETE series of books; I wanted to read Evanovich but didn't want to buy all of them, I got them from this site. I think I'll look for Lemony Snicket next.

Wow, this is about the first time I actually can make it to one of your bookswapping meetings

Will keep the 21st free and be there, don't have A LOT to swap though, cos I've only been reading English books for abt. 2 years now and have given away a lot of them already.
Hope you don't mind.

Kathryn,
Adi said he could make it on the 21st. I just got a PM from Shell, he will be out of town for this one but wants to be included for August. 3 pm sounds perfect.

Karin,
glad you will be able to come! Don't worry about it if you don't have a lot of books to bring, from the sound of it there will be plenty there for everyone.

Grey,
I don't really know which classics I want, I will try to make a list, and in the meantime I want to look over your blog of books. How do I get to it?

Laurel
Ps. I have something else to be excited about on the 21st. The new Harry Potter comes out! Yay!

At the top of the page, there's a BLOG link; to make it easy, I titled it 'Hamburg Bookswap'. These are only the books I bought through Amazon. I've got to find all my boxes and see what else I have. Do you have a favorite Classics author? I could bring those. Have you ever read Trollope's Barchester books, I like those, and BBC adapted it but I don't know if I have that one on DVD.

On DVD I Emma, Pride & Prejudice, Pesuasion, He Knew He Was Right, The Perfect Husband, Washington Square Vanity Fair (my all-time favorite), Dombey & Son, North & South, etc.

i'd like to join in, too.

Hi guys,
It's great the swapping thing is catching on, eh?
Only wish I wasn't working so many weekends... can't make it on the 21st. See you next time,
Ian

'ray, 'ray!

at last this is taking off!
the more the merrier, no rules, just come along and we'll see what happens!

ok, so I am "book-ing" a couch corner for:

cookie
marymanu
grey with
koala
hammonia
adi
brooklyblade...

silty
shell

@marymanu: I too am hanging out for harry potter, any pile of books taken home on the 21st will have to wait till I'm through with that ;-)
small note re. etiquett - please use Toytown identities in messages to avoid confusion and to respect privacy. :-)

cu all soon!
Koala

See you all on Saturday!

Koala: Thanks for letting me know re: ettiquette. Do you think we can get a table large enough for all these books???

Help! I don't know which books to bring. Other than the Classics for Marymanu I have no idea. Here is a partial list of my books, please let me know if there is anything you would like me to bring:

Bookswap

Alexandre Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics)
Alexandre, d. Ält. Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask
Alta R. Turner, Finger Weaving
Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right, The Barchester Series
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Carlene Thompson, Don't Close Your Eyes, Since You've Been Gone, Black for Remembrance., In the Event of My Death, The Way You Look Tonight (Way You Look Tonight), Tonight You're Mine
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby (Everyman Paperback Classics), Oliver Twist, English edition
Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Claude M. Bristol, Magic of Believing
Compton Mackenzie, The Monarch of the Glen
Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress, The Da Vinci Code
David Eddings, King of the Murgos (Malloreon), The Seeress of Kell (Malloreon)
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas, Brother Odd
Deepak Chopra, How to Know God
Eden Gray, The Tarot Revealed
Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children.
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Elaine Cunningham, Tangled Webs (Forgotten Realms (Paperback), Daughter of the Drow (Forgotten Realms, Evermeet: Island of the Elves (Forgotten Realms)
Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels
Elizabeth George, A Place of Hiding
Elizabeth Moran, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Feng Shui
Elmore Leonard, Pronto, Be Cool, Film Tie-In
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Erika Schwartz, The Hormone Solution
Farley Mowat, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, Owls in the Family
Gnostic, Lost Books of the Bible: Being All the Gospels, Epistles and Other Pieces
Greenwood, Ed, Elminster in Hell (Elminster), Elminster in Myth Drannor (Forgotten Realms), Elminster's Daughter (Forgotten Realms), The Temptation of Elminster (Forgotten Realms) , Elminster: Making of a Mage (Forgotten Realms)
Haydon, Elizabeth, Destiny: Child of the Sky (Rhapsody Trilogy), Prophecy: Child of Earth, Rhapsody: Child of Blood
Herbert Asbury, The French Quarter, The Barbary Coast, Gangs of New York, The Gangs of Chicago
Hess, Joan, Maggody and the Moonbeams (Arly Hanks Mysteries), Murder@maggody.com: An Arly Hanks Mystery, Misery Loves Maggody (Arly Hanks Mysteries, The Maggody Militia: An Arly Hanks Mystery, Muletrain to Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery
Holman, Gillian, Bias-Cut Dressmaking [Paperback]
James Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library in English
Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Joan Bunning, Learning the Tarot
Joe Wilson, Ductigami
John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Katzenbach, The Analyst
John R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion,
Jonathan Kellerman, Therapy, Twisted, The Conspiracy Club
Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
Katherine Neville, Calculated Risk, The Eight
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Lawrence Block, Small Town: A Novel of New York
Lisa Peschel, A Practical Guide to the Runes : Their Uses in Divination and Magick
M. E. Braddon,, Lady Audley's Secret
Maguire, Son of a Witch [Hardcover], Wicked
Margaret A. Hartelius, Knot Now!
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Nightsword (Starshield)
Mario Costantino, The Traveler's Phrase Book
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper (Bantam Classics)
Marlies Busch, u. a., Friendship Bands
Mary Higgins Clark, Nighttime Is My Time
Michael Crichton, Prey
Minette Walters, The Tinder Box, Disordered Minds, Disordered Minds, Fox Evil
Neil Gaiman, American Gods, Stardust, Coraline
Nicci French, The Red Room
P. G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!, The Inimitable Jeeves, Carry on, Jeeves
Pamela Coleman Smith, Pocket Rider-Waite Tarot Deck
Patricia Cornwell, Blow Fly
Philippa Gregory, The Queen's Fool
R. A. Salvatore, The Witch's Daughter (Chronicles of Ynis Aielle), Bastion of Darkness, Immortalis, Transcendence, Echoes of the Fourth Magic (Chronicles of Ynis Aielle), The Spine of the World (Forgotten Realms Paths of Darkness), Sea of Swords (Forgotten Realms ), The Demon Spirit (DemonWars), Mortalis (DemonWars), The Demon Apostle (DemonWars), The Demon Awakens (DemonWars), Ascendance, Forgotten Realms. 1,000 Orcs. The Hunter's Blades Trilogie 1., Legacy of the Drow (Forgotten Realms ), The Cleric Quintet (Forgotten Realms Omnibus), The Dark Elf Trilogy
Raymond E. Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk, Exile's Return, King of Foxes, Talon of the Silver Hawk (Conclave of Shadows 1)
Robert Harris, Pompeii
Robin Maxwell, The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
Rosie Thomas, Border Crossing. On the Road from Peking to Paris.
Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, The Jungle Books, Puck of Pook's Hill
Sark, Succulent Wild Woman
Scott Cunningham, Wicca : A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, Spell Crafts (Llewellyn's Practical Magick)
Stuart R. Kaplan, Tarot Classic
Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn 1. The Dragonbone Chair, The Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn ), To Green Angel Tower (I), Storm, To Green Angel Tower, Siege, To Green Angel Tower, The War of the Flowers
Terry Brooks, Tanequil (High Druid of Shannara), The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara 3. Morgawr , The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara 1. Ilse Witch, The Talismans of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara) , The Scions of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara), The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax (Voyage of the Jerle Shannara), The Druid of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara), The Elf Queen of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara), The Druid of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara), The Scions of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara), The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax (Voyage of the Jerle Shannara), The Elf Queen of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara), High Druid of Shannara 3. Straken, High Druid of Shannara. Jarka Ruus
Terry Goodkind, Sword of Truth 10. Phantom, Sword of Truth 07. The Pillars of Creation. (Sword of Truth), Sword of Truth 09. Chainfire, Sword of Truth 08. Naked EmpireSword of Truth 08. Naked Empire, Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, Book 6), Sword of Truth 05. Soul of the Fire, Sword of Truth 01. Wizard's First Rule, Debt of Bones, Sword of Truth 03. Blood of the Fold, Sword of Truth 02. Stone of Tears, Sword of Truth 04. Temple of the Winds
Thomas Hardy, Woodlanders (Wordsworth Collection)
Veronica Burningham, Weaving Without a Loom

Grey,
I sent you a PM of the books I would like you to bring. If no one else requests anything, maybe just bring some of your favorites from this list.

No one else requested any books so tomorrow I'll gather together the ones you requested and any you might like from the choices you made.

see you Saturday,
GreyWitch

greetings fellow Hamburg wordworms,
of which Saturday do you speak?
he asked, half in jest yet
fully unaware

It's this Saturday, July 21st - it's in the title of this thread

@GreyWitch
What a list! Really difficult to decide. I'd like to have a look at the Practical Guide to the Runes and the 2nd Cunningham book you mentioned, have got the Guide for the Solitary Practitioner in German already.
Could you maybe also bring Mary Higgins Clarke? Have read many of her books in German and would love to try one in English.
Also would like to read the Monarch of the Glen and the books from Katherine Neville (think Mat might also like them).

Thanks in advance. Looking forward to Saturday!

Ah yes, skipping titles. Damn.

Can't make it as usual. Work. Damn.

@grey witch - woah! How long did you take to type that list up? That's incredible! here's the ones I'm interested in:

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies
Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress,
David Eddings, King of the Murgos (Malloreon), The Seeress of Kell (Malloreon)
Deepak Chopra, How to Know God
Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children.
Elaine Cunningham, Tangled Webs (Forgotten Realms (Paperback), Daughter of the Drow (Forgotten Realms, Evermeet: Island of the Elves (Forgotten Realms)
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Farley Mowat, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, Owls in the Family
Greenwood, Ed, Elminster in Hell (Elminster), Elminster in Myth Drannor (Forgotten Realms), Elminster's Daughter (Forgotten Realms), The Temptation of Elminster (Forgotten Realms) , Elminster: Making of a Mage (Forgotten Realms)
Haydon, Elizabeth, Destiny: Child of the Sky (Rhapsody Trilogy), Prophecy: Child of Earth, Rhapsody: Child of Blood
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, The Jungle Books, Puck of Pook's Hill
Tad Williams, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn 1. The Dragonbone Chair, The Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn ), To Green Angel Tower (I), Storm, To Green Angel Tower, Siege, To Green Angel Tower, The War of the Flowers

Hope you read this in time!

Ok - so here's a last tally for tomorrow:

cookie
marymanu
grey with
koala
hammonia
adi
brooklyblade...

Anyone else who wants to just come along is welcome!
I'm looking forward to it, cu tomorrow...

Hello everyone,
Just confirming Cookie and I will be there along with two friends who are looking forward to it as well.
See you in a few hours,
Laurel

Koala,
You and I sure have the same taste in books! (And that's a good thing for us swappers!) I requested that Grey bring a lot of the same books. We'll just have to fight over them. It sounds like there will be plenty of books for everyone. It's exciting that this is finally taking off.
See you soon,
Laurel

That was a great book swap. Thank you to all the organizers. I have come home with a great pile of books and can't wait to get stuck in.

Lovely to meet everyone and look forward to doing it again.

Cheers,

Steph0313

Yeah, it was really nice to meet you all - and thanks for that huge pile of books - Mat was stunned when he saw the big bag I was carrying...

Yep, the book swap was a huge success. Thanks to all who helped to organize and all who came. Matt and I are very happy with our large pile of books as well. And you will all be happy to know that my Harry Potter 7 was waiting for me at my neighbor's when I got home. I've only just now resurfaced... =0)

Let's keep this up and meet up next month to swap books again.

Laurel

we'll be doing well to have plowed through our piles in a month though! ;-)

all the same, how's about Sat. the 25th of Aug. or Sat. the 8th of Sept.?

and MY Harry Potter was NOT waiting for me - GRRR. Still not there and boy, am I suffering!
have to avoid so many things in order not to have it spoilt! boo hoo hoo

Koala,
I'd lend you mine but Matt is halfway thru it already. Let me know if you still haven't gotten your's in a day or so and you can borrow mine, he should be done by then.
L

@ marymanu - thanx, that's sweet, but the good news is...

TA DA !!!...

I now get my Harry Potter FOR FREE!! As compensation for no delivery! And it has since been sent so should be there tomorrow.
Hooray!!

I bounce between amazon.de and .co.uk, somehow I pre-ordered from .co.uk. I won't get my copy until Thursday!!!

I also am being very careful of what I read so as not to spoil it. I know some fool will read it and flash a spoiler 5ft high across the internet '-(

Very much enjoyed the meet and meeting y'all. Haven't begun reading any of the books yet as I'm still reading "Our Mutual Friend". Have to finish the book before I watch the DVD. Also "Martin Chuzzlewit".

So many books, so little time.

GreyWitch

Hi there!

Just to let you know that International School of Hamburg will have book swaping event on September 26, 14:30-15:30

Address is Holmbrook 20.

Cheers!

Leyli

Hi Leyli - thanks for the tip! I'll go check that out. Always looking for new sources of English books.

hey , how about doing some swopping with me. Your cash for my books. Or the cash you got for swopping your labour for the dosh from your employer or client???
Robert Eng Bks HH

Err... no thanks.

Hey Robert, how about you swap some of YOUR cash for MY books? Last time I called, your store wasn't buying anything. Has that changed? I've got loads of books to bring in.

howse about we set up a new book swap meet?
I've still got piles of books from last time, but it would be nice to see you all again (and Silty - I've still got some of yours you wanted back...)

My suggestion: Saturday 20th October 3 pm at cafe May.

Any takers?

I would like to swap books.

Terry Prat Coehlo Auster are being asked for. Other than that still well stocked or under frequented, as one sees it.
Robert

Koala,
Cookieaddict and I are in for the 20th. Still have lots of books but it was tons of fun! See you there!

I will also try to make it on the 20th. It would be motivation to finish a few books, so I'll have something to bring!

Hi bookworms,

Happy to see this threat as I love reading, am new to Germany and would love to have an excuse to get out and meet some people.. but cannot make it to many nights out due to having two kids at home and no babysitter I just wondered if I could come along to the next meeting? I don't have time to type up all the books I could bring (respect to grey witch!).. I'll grab a selection that I've enjoyed and see if anyone wants one.. would that be ok?

Cheers,
Bren

@Bren: absolutely - that's how we all do it! No need to type, just bring along, anyone and any book is welcome. We tend to pile on the table and see who wants what. The Cafe May has a non smoking "lounge" area and serves coffee/cake/snacks etc.

Looking fwd to seeing you!

@amanda - u 2 of course!

If anyone likes Patricia Cornwell I have most of her books in a box in the attic, I'd take some down if anyone has a request for one. Otherwise I'm thinking of taking a few Ian Rankin (will have to ask my boyfriend first, they're his , Zadie Smith, Tony Parsons and Andrew Taylor. Will see how much I can carry!

Bren

@Piggystardust - We always meet up on a Saturday afternoon as some of us work evenings and/or have children. This one will be on the 20th at 3 pm. I'm bringing a big stack - hope to see y'all there!

Will try to be there, too.
Also have a big pile - don't get to read as much as I'd like to so will return a few of those I WAS BEING FORCED!!! to take last time

Saturday 20th Oct 3pm Cafe May

Takers thus far:

Koala
Chi Town
Marymanu
Cookie Addict
Piggystardust
Amanda
Hammonia

Anyone else?

My friend Mollyoaf and her husband might come.

It's true. If we don't go camping, we'll have a small stack to share & swap. Hope to see you there.

Hi All,

I will be there again! I have few books that I can add to the pile, but I haven't even made a dent in the books I took home with me last time. (I am thinking that I don't read as much in the summer months)

Look forward to seeing you all again and meeting the new ones.

Cheers,

updated bookswappers for coming Sat.:

Koala
Chi Town
Marymanu
Cookie Addict
Piggystardust
Amanda
Hammonia
Mollyoaf + Hubby
Steph0313

... the more the merrier! Anymore going to join us?

This is a (very) long shot... but I'm just starting to potty train my 2 1/2 year old.. if any of you have books on potty training bring them along..