Classic Literature Book Club Ideas

Jane Eyre trivia game with prize ideas and questions!

Have an after book discussion Jane Eyre game! Be the first person to answer trivia questions to win a novel inspired prize. Keep the trivia questions easy. This is suppose to be fun and not intimidating! ​Questions for your game provided

Jane Eyre prizes include tags with quotes. Use an antique style tray to display your prizes or a vintage suitcase box found at Michael's. Another example see Old-Fashioned Small Suitcase found on Amazon​

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Kraft paper tags and alphabet stickers.
​Tags with quotes can also be used as a bookmark

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Box of Twinnings English Breakfast tea and homemade seed cake wrapped in wax paper and twine. Recipe at Cooks.com

"Having invited Helen and me to approach the table, and placed before each of us a cup of tea with one delicious but thin morsel of toast, she (Miss Temple) got up, unlocked a drawer, and taking from it a parcel wrapped in paper, disclosed presently to our eyes a good-sized seed-cake"
Chapter VIII – Lowood School

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Adele seemed scarcely to need the warning-she had already retired to a sofa with her treasure, and was busy untying the cord which secured the lid. Having removed this impediment, and lifted certain silvery envelopes of tissue paper, she merely exclaimed-
“Oh ciel! Que c'est beau!”and then remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.
Translation: “Oh Heavens! How Beautiful!”
Chapter XIV – Thornfield Hall 

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“Were you happy, when you painted these pictures?” asked Mr. Rochester presently. “I was absorbed, sir: yes, and I was happy. To paint them, in short, was to enjoy one of the keenest pleasures I have ever known.”
Chapter XIV – Thornfield Hall

Sketching set of pencils, erasure and charcoal placed in a Bronte sisters mug

Prize with humor
Jamaican hot & spicy seasoning
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“I affirm and can prove that on the 20th of October AD. Edward Fairfax Rochester was married to my sister, Bertha Antoinetta Mason, daughter of Jonas Mason, merchant, and of Antoinetta his wife, a Creole at church, Spanish Town, Jamaica.
Chapter XXVI – wedding day

She was dressed in pure white; an amber-coloured scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, tied at the side, and descending in long, fringed ends below her knee. She wore an amber-coloured flower, too, in her hair: it contrasted well with the jetty mass of her curls.”
Chapter XVI - description of Miss Blanche Ingram

Achillea large soft silky pashimina shawl wrap scarf in a variety of solid colors or a Jane Eyre scarf both on Amazon.com

Jane Eyre Trivia Questions

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• What is the name of the place that Jane feared as a child in Aunt Reed's home? red-room

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• Mr. Rochester's dogs name  Pilot

 

• Blanch Ingram had a STRONG dislike of what? governesses!

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• Bertha Mason hailed from what country? Jamaica

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• Which country did St. John Rivers move to and did he ever get married? India and he never married

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• Give any one term of endearment (name) Mr. Rochester called Jane ​​​​​​

 Website:  The Squeee  lists all the names Rochester called Jane throughout the book 

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    To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Make a book inspired treat - Southern pecan praline, as a dessert or for book friends to take home
Recipe found on Food.com
Go Set a Watchman trivia questions to win a prize on Book Club Blogger

Table runner and seating cards using the characters in
​ 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

Chalk paper (example: self adhesive cut to size chalk paper) as a table runner add any favorite quote from To Kill a Mockingbird for example: "There's just one kind of folks. Folks." ~Scout Finch
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For each glass write a book character name and easy to do printout of a small mockingbird (found on Google Images) glued on stem tags

Get everyone talking! Stay within the quote: '"There is one kind of folks. Folks" make table seating cards (these found at Michael's). Place your friends at the table sitting next to TKAM book characters that conflicted in the novel. Example: Atticus Finch seated next to Bob Ewell or Mrs. Dubose and Jem Finch. Aunt Alexandra and Calpurnia. For more read the blog post of To Kill a Mockingbird party

Have everyone write their name on a piece paper with their guess. You can use marbles, bubblegum balls, sticks of gum representing some of the finds Jem and Scout discovered in the knothole of a tree. The one closes to that number wins a prize! 

​The perfect prize for the 'guessing' game. To Kill A Mockingbird mug on Amazon.com

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Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

You will need: Chalkboard and chalk pens 
Write down your favorite Daddy Long Legs quotes and display it on an easel or hang on the wall for book club
​Pictures taken and belong to Go Beyond Book Club​

Idea!  Written in the early 1900's several yummy sweets were mentioned throughout the book. Such as old fashion molasses pulled candy, classic fudge and lemon jelly. Have your book friends get in the spirit of 
Daddy Long Legs by bringing these sweet treats to your book party

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Captain Blood Book Club

 A Captain Blood dinner with pina coladas, pineapple wrapped in bacon with swag pirate themed sword picks and a table set in the colors of the sea
Pictures taken and belong to by Go Beyond Book Club

*Make a cool refreshing Pina Colada with this tasty recipe on Food Network