Book related activities.

Good day!
I'm having a book filled week this week. I'm in a reading flow and getting into book activities in Berlin.  Yesterday I went to the first book club meeting. This is a book club that some people from couchsurfing organized. I missed the pre-meeting last week about which book we should read and how often we should see each other. The book we read is Mrs Dalloway by Virgina Woolf and we meet every other week. To the first meeting we where suppose to read the first 30 pages. I almost laughed then. 30 pages is nothing! Then I started to read and I found it way harder then I though. Woolf jumps between characters and there is a lot of thoughts in the first pages. It starts with Mrs Dalloway walking on the streets of London and then all these people are introduced though their thought they have walking on the same street. I sometimes feel a bit stupid reading in English as a none native. Even if Kindle has made it so easy to look up words and that I consider my English to be good since I mostly read in English, I feel I get lost sometimes. I felt a bit lost reading this book.

I was pretty glad when I meet the book club people that they also found it hard. We talked about we found the language. What we think will happened and all that.
I really enjoyed it. People where interested and really wanted to talk. They had a lot to say and the discussion was good. We where a really international group from Norway to Brazil and about 10 people came.
I was over-prepare of course, with underlined parts that I like and I read more then 30 pages without knowing it. Kindle reading just shows precents so I didn't really know when to stop. There is also no chapters in this 200 page long book. I'm really excited about the next meeting and being in a book club is something I've been wanting to do for many years. Next time we will have read half the book and I'm really looking forward.

In about an hour I will meet with Charlotte. She's opening a Swedish bookshop in Berlin and trying to organize a book exchange in the end of May. In Sweden there is a book exchange day every 25th of May and she's trying to spread it here. Last year I was a the book exchange at Stockholm university and really liked it. I got the book A short History of tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. A book I recommend to everyone to read.  
Anywho, I read about that Charlotte was going to do a book exchange here and e-mailed her right away. I want to be involved in some way. So we have been e-mailing back and forward ideas of how to do it and today we're going to meet for the first time. I'm looking forward. I do want to get more into the book scene (can you even write that? Is there a book scene?) here.

Other book related things that happening in Berlin is Lange Buchnacht in der Oranienstrasse this weekend. Read more about it here.  A guy from book club told me about it and I want to go. It's mostly in German and a lot of things happening. So if you're a book lover is in Berlin on Saturday the 12th of May with a okay level of German, head there and maybe we'll see each other there.