An afternoon book swap

I went to a book swap this afternoon. 'Twas a great afternoon. Everyone brought along any books, magazines or DVDs that they wanted to swap and piled them on a table for the taking. The only rules were that there was no book dumping (if your books weren't taken you had to take them home again) and no book snobbery (ie no loud exclaiming "can't believe anybody would ever read such a stupid book"). All done in a pleasant plant-filled courtyard over scrumptious food and your beverage of choice.

The afternoon was hosted by a friend of a couple in my bible-study (community) group, and so a few of us from our group went along in support of relational evangelism, and a great time was had. Occasions like this afternoon, which involve an integration of lives and fostering true friendship, seem immensely valuable things to do (not to mention just good fun). I have been inspired to alter something I have been planning to that effect (but won't blog about it before it's for real!).

Here are the books I came home with (plus a few of those I'd taken!). I did very well I thought!:

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

The Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom (enjoyed Tuesday's With Morrie as a sort of intelligent pop-psychology, so am curious about this one)

In the Winter Dark - Tim Winton

Dirt Music - Tim Winton

The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy (for when I need another dose of angst)

Seven Modern Poets - Edited by Geoffrey Summerfield (a person can have too many poetry anthologies, as opposed to books of individual poets, which a person can never have too many of, but I shall see how I like this)

A Dictionary of Literary Terms - Martin Gray (lookout blog).

Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin

Change the World for Ten Bucks - I don't know who (some of my friends brought this book along and said it was allright, and hey, I can just take it back next time)