BOOK YOUR TIME FOR A BOOK

"So, what is it all about?" someone asked. "Well, it's a network for exchanging books. You leave your book in any place you like, so that someone can find it, read it and release again. Then another person finds it, and so on, so the book lives the life of it's own." one of Ti u akciji members is repeating the fixed and memorized by heart explanation. "Hm, it won't work here. You've chosen wrong place for action like that." answers the skeptical participant of The Book Releasing Party.


Will it work or not? – it's too late for that discussion, as the BRP is going with full steam already! On our own backs we brought more than 100 books to Stara Frida to put them on the tables all around the place. Each book has a hand written note inside, explaining what BookXing is about and informing, that the book can be registered at www.bookcrossing.com. Our books freshly joined the programme, but we hope that soon we will get surprised when checking their itinerary! So wherever you go, please, remember to take one paper friend with you, to let it live the journey of it's life! Don't let them get lost in the depths of your drawer, let them be free!


The party lasted until 3 a.m. For this we would sincerely want to thank to our friends, old ones and new ones, who joined us for this event. Of course Stara Frida team deserves a great hug and thank you for lending us the space and for staying with us until the last book! And let's not forget Environmental Engineering Group that helped a lot with promotion of the event.

We were working a lot through days before the BRP, and this meeting was a great opportunity to relax and simply enjoy watching the books disappearing. Books in Serbian, Hungarian, English. We even had one book from Greek BookCrossing community! Novels, poetry, guides, handbooks, for children, for adults, about life, love, about everything and about nothing. It's just impossible not to find something perfectly suitable for yourself! Maybe one day we'll meet some of the books again. In the coffee house, city park or a bus, or maybe it's the last time we saw each other. But still it was a pleasure for us to be a part of their story!


Of course none of this could happen without people and institutions who shared their books with us! Great thanks to Hellena, Ida and Milovan from Volunteers' Centre of Vojvodina as well as Students' Culture Centre of Novi Sad (especially to Pecinko) and Matica Srpska (Rasha in particular!). And one anonymous donor, who brought Macbeth directly to the party. We are really grateful for your support!


And hopefully it was just first of the whole series of similar events. All over Novi Sad, in Sremski Karlovci, Futog, Becej, Subotica, Sombor, Temerin, Zrenjanin, Kikinda... list is getting longer and longer! So remember: READ and RELEASE!!!