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Ringbahn Read: Silent Reading in the S41
Sun, Nov 15, 9:30 AMRSVP on [Luma ](https://luma.com/iyqj4qwz)for Event Updates. It's a silent reading party - BYOB (bring your own book)! All books and all readers are welcome! This time we're reading on board the Berlin **S41 Ringbahn**! **We will be taking the train departing at 11:01, boarding the last two cars.** **Our Agenda:** 10:30 - 11:00 — **Meeting [at the corner of Annemirl-Bauer-Platz Park](https://maps.app.goo.gl/DEKDRfexrKbNKEWg8)** across from Ostkreuz and get to know some of your fellow riders/readers! We'll walk over to the station together! 11:01 - 12:01 — For those who need the extra 30 mins of sleep, feel free to meet us on the **S41 Platform** of Ostrkeuz. Board the S41 at 11:01 for the Great Quiet Reading Hour, where we complete a whole ring around the city of Berlin! 12:01 — Get off at Ostkreuz to socialise, grab coffee, share your reading adventures, or just stay on the train for another round!
Monthly Book Club Meeting - October
Sun, Oct 18, 12:30 PMDear Book Enthusiasts, For our September gathering, we’ll be reading ***Crossing the Mangrove*** by the Guadeloupean writer **Maryse Condé**. Set in a small Guadeloupean community, this richly layered and atmospheric novel begins with the mysterious death of Francis Sancher, a man whose presence has touched the lives of many people in the village. As the story unfolds, we hear from a wide range of characters, each offering their own memories, impressions, desires, and secrets. Through these many voices, Condé creates a vibrant portrait of a community shaped by love, resentment, identity, colonial history, and the complicated ties that bind people together. 📅 **Date & Time:** Sunday, 18.10.2026 at 15:00 📍 **Location:** Distrikt Coffee, Bergstrasse 68, 10115 Berlin 💬 **Fee:** As always, a 3 € contribution after the meeting helps cover organization costs. As I mentioned in earlier announcements, due to personal reasons I will not be able to attend a few upcoming meetings. A lovely friend of mine — Tereza, who happens to be a connoisseur of literature — kindly agreed to moderate and host this gathering during my absence. I truly hope you’ll join me in giving her your support. I’m very much looking forward to hearing all about your discussion and to gathering together again soon. Warmly, Sofya
Women’s Book Club: Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Sat, Oct 31, 1:30 PMThis time we will be discussing **Donna Tartt's The Secret History.** Additional spots are available on **Luma**: https://luma.com/calendar/cal-GFWYra5Jvk9S3Hz. Subscribe to the calendar to get all future events in your personal calendar app, each with a direct link to sign up on Luma. We look forward to seeing you! If you have book suggestions, would like to vote on our next reads, or join us for additional activities, please ask someone at the meeting to add you to our WhatsApp group. As a quick note, the cafe is kind enough to let us host our meetings there free of charge and flexibly. In return, please make sure to order at least one drink and refrain from bringing your own food. And a heads up: **The café only accept card payments for amounts over €10**, so you may want to bring some cash for smaller orders. Please remember to cancel your participation in good time if you are not coming. This will give someone else enough time to read the book and come to the meeting.
Sunday Afternoon LW + ACX Meetup
Sun, Oct 18, 12:00 PMIf you’re reading this, you’re invited. Please don't hesitate to come even if you feel awkward about it, even if you're not "the typical ACX reader", even if you're worried people won't like you, etc. Location is the Espresso House coffee shop near Nordbahnhof, the same one where we have been before. [Espresso House](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=52.533104%2C%2013.387528) Gartenstraße 85-87 · Berlin
![@ Anna Blume [Halloween Edition] - A cozy book swap and chat meetup!](https://secure-content.meetupstatic.com/images/classic-events/536505686/600x338.webp?w=3840)
@ Anna Blume [Halloween Edition] - A cozy book swap and chat meetup!
Fri, Oct 30, 6:00 PMA spooky version of our "classic" bookswap! \- Swappers are encouraged to wear **costumes**. \- There will be a dedicated **horror books table**, so bring out your favourite horror books and exchange them for new-to-you books. \- We'll bring some Halloween **decoration**, but please reach out to us to contribute more. The usual blurb follows: The "classical" bookswap is simple: * We meet in a café and put the book(s) we brought down on the tables. * We go around to browse and discuss the books with one another while sipping coffee or hot chocolate, or eating cake. * We write our names down on any books we’d like to take home (post-its and pens provided). * At the end of the evening, negotiate any books that are contended and take a new-to-you book home! Books/happiness shared are books/happiness multiplied! A Bookswap is 10 times better than a Book Club because you can talk about ALL the books instead of just one! This is a great way to give your books a new home and make room for new books: that book you feel guilty for not having read even though it's been sitting on your bedside table for the last 5 years, the book you liked but didn't love, the book you loved so much you want everyone to read it, the book you somehow own three copies of, that book you absolutely hated even though everyone else loves it, and so on. Moreover, you will meet fellow readers, get a new book or two, and several book recommendations. We’ve often had readers experience books they wouldn't normally buy and enjoy it. GROUP EXPECTATIONS for PLEASANT SWAPPING * Please bring a book! It's not that you bring one you take one, but do try your best to bring something. * Books stay on the tables, open for sharing, until you are ready to leave so that everyone can have a look. We are notably not first come first serve. Please wait until you are leaving to bag the book. * If two or more people want the only copy of a book, negotiate. Maybe one of you reads it first and then gives it to the others. Or perhaps they have found another book instead. Or leave it to fate and toss a coin. The best part: now you have found somebody whose taste you can really admire. In any case, please don't walk away with a book with several names on it without letting the others know. These negotiations are fun and easy, so don't shy away from a book because there's already a name on it, and feel free to put your name on as many books as you find interesting. It's not that you bring one you take one; you may take as many as you can negotiate. * Political discussions with consent: make sure the people you are talking to would like to have a political discussion with you. * Please respect this space as first and foremost a community for connecting readers over their love of books and reading, stories, and narratives of all sorts. Please be respectful of tastes and opinions. * If something is bothering you, please reach out to the organizers, and we'll do our best to resolve it. * Lastly, don't expect your book back. It will find a new home. If you love it, let it go. Major LANGUAGES (and genres) of this meetup: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian; Fiction, Non-Fiction, Serious Reading, Light Fun, “classics", Krimis, Booker winners, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Self-Help and more. You never know who can read what languages, and there's no accounting for taste. We are a delightful and international group of readers. We look forward to swapping with you!
Kim Ji-young: Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo (please read description)
Sat, Nov 14, 1:30 PMThis time we will be discussing **Cho Nam-Joo's Kim Ji-young: Born 1982.** We look forward to seeing you! **Important**: Additional spots are available on **Luma**: https://luma.com/calendar/cal-GFWYra5Jvk9S3Hz. Subscribe to the calendar to get all future events in your personal calendar app, each with a direct link to sign up on Luma. If you have book suggestions, would like to vote on our next reads, or join us for additional activities, please ask someone at the meeting to add you to our WhatsApp group. As a quick note, the cafe is kind enough to let us host our meetings there free of charge and flexibly. In return, please make sure to order at least one drink and refrain from bringing your own food. And a heads up: **The café only accept card payments for amounts over €10**, so you may want to bring some cash for smaller orders. Please remember to cancel your participation in good time if you are not coming. This will give someone else enough time to read the book and come to the meeting.
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