The BCUK Unconvention
Monday, July 19th, 2004 18:32![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeThe bookcrosser known as Netstation organised this weekend meet-up in Birmingham virtually single-handed and he did a fantastic job. So fantastic in fact, that everyone else will probably be too scared to organise another one for fear of failing to come up to his high standards. We stayed in an Express by Holiday Inn in central Birmingham (Holiday Inn's cheaper chain with basic facilities) and the main venue was a very nice bar just round the corner.
There must have been about 60 people the over the weekend including an 11-week-old baby, an almost two-year-old toddler, several other children and a few non-bookcrossing friends and partners. Netstation had even arranged for someone to look after the children at the bar on the Saturday, so that their parents could relax. She spent most of the time with the toddler, but some of the other kids did some painting and made cards with the craft supplies that she had brought with her.
We each got a goody bag including tourist brochures about Birmingham, a packet of postcards showing brass plaques on the pavements in the Jewellery Quarter, a roll of bookcrossing spine labels and a couple of books carefully chosen to suit each individual. My books were "Kristin Lavransdatter II - The Mistress of Husaby" by Sigrid Undset and "With Nails" by Richard E. Grant. So someone has been taking notice of my interest in films, Scandinavia & mediaeval history : )
I took 18 books to the meet-up (all the Availables from my BC bookshelf) and came back with twelve. This is definitely a good result, since most of the books I came away with were small paperbacks so they won't take long to read (leaving me more time to get on with my non-BC TBRs) and also my suitcase was much lighter on the way home. Most of my books were taken by other bookcrossers with only two or three left when we took the leftovers to wild release on our Sunday morning walk.
Apart from the books from my goody bag, I picked up nine books and an audio-book from the tables where we laid out all our books at the Saturday:
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Haiku - Basho (a Penguin 60)
The e Before Christmas - Matt Beaumont
The Little Earth Book - James Bruges
Fireworks - Angela Carter
Essays - Michel de Montaigne
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto
Diane . . . - narrated by Kyle McLaughlin (a Twin Peaks audio book)
There must have been about 60 people the over the weekend including an 11-week-old baby, an almost two-year-old toddler, several other children and a few non-bookcrossing friends and partners. Netstation had even arranged for someone to look after the children at the bar on the Saturday, so that their parents could relax. She spent most of the time with the toddler, but some of the other kids did some painting and made cards with the craft supplies that she had brought with her.
We each got a goody bag including tourist brochures about Birmingham, a packet of postcards showing brass plaques on the pavements in the Jewellery Quarter, a roll of bookcrossing spine labels and a couple of books carefully chosen to suit each individual. My books were "Kristin Lavransdatter II - The Mistress of Husaby" by Sigrid Undset and "With Nails" by Richard E. Grant. So someone has been taking notice of my interest in films, Scandinavia & mediaeval history : )
I took 18 books to the meet-up (all the Availables from my BC bookshelf) and came back with twelve. This is definitely a good result, since most of the books I came away with were small paperbacks so they won't take long to read (leaving me more time to get on with my non-BC TBRs) and also my suitcase was much lighter on the way home. Most of my books were taken by other bookcrossers with only two or three left when we took the leftovers to wild release on our Sunday morning walk.
Apart from the books from my goody bag, I picked up nine books and an audio-book from the tables where we laid out all our books at the Saturday:
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Haiku - Basho (a Penguin 60)
The e Before Christmas - Matt Beaumont
The Little Earth Book - James Bruges
Fireworks - Angela Carter
Essays - Michel de Montaigne
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto
Diane . . . - narrated by Kyle McLaughlin (a Twin Peaks audio book)
