Holiday Book Club
I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try and keep it all the year
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
and try and keep it all the year
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
*These tips are for book friends celebrating in a home. If you do not have a volunteer to host then enjoy the same festive ideas in a restaurant or your choice of venue to celebrate one of the best book clubs of the year!
Book Party Ideas
- Come dressed up in your festive pajamas, (a book club favorite), a red and green theme or wear ugly holiday sweaters. If you want to make the sweaters book theme all the better! Start with a blank canvas sweatshirt or knit sweater and decorate it with all things bookish. Hold a contest for the best outrageous bookish sweater
- Plan a gift exchange - Bring a wrapped gift (No name on the present) with an agreed spending limit
- Include a book exchange - Wrap a used or new book (same as the gift exchange do not put your name on the gift). Side note- not everyone has to participate in both exchanges
- Ornament exchange - Purchase or create an ornament based on your favorite read, a Christmas book club selection or a festive book quote
- White elephant gift exchange - Bring on the laughs with goofy, unwanted and or recycled gifts. If it's book related even better!
- Favorite's gift exchange - These are a few of my favorite things! Buy gifts that you love and use and want to share with your book friends. Make a favorite things basket or one or two favorites that are within the agreed spending limit - Book Club Blogger's favorites things on Amazon.com
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How to play the gift exchange game
Start alphabetically by name. Letter A goes first and so on. Do that with the gift exchange and for the book exchange start with Z and go backwards.
The gifts will be laid out and one person picks whichever wrapped gift they choose. The next person then picks a gift either on the table or takes the gift from anyone holding an opened present. You need to decide how many steals are allowed. Usually two to three is the norm and then that persons gift is safe and can no longer be taken. Book exchange is done the same way |
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Let the host go last on the gift exchange. They will have a good chance of choosing (or stealing) a gift they want. It's an easy way to say thank you for hosting one of the merriest book clubs of the year!
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Gift ideas for the gift exchange
The gift exchange is a ton of fun but finding gifts for under a certain amount can be frustrating. Amazon.com has gifts that are book lover perfect and fit the price. More ideas on Shop Bookish and Bookish Jane Austen
Bookish Ornaments on Etsy
Holiday Book Selection
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Our book club loves to read biographies especially true stories. The 13th Gift is a memoir best seller and it's story is touted as funny, inspiring and even a bit of a lighthearted mystery
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For the Christmas Carol fans: Jacob T. Marley is the story behind Ebeneezer Scrooge's miserly business partner Jacob Marley. If you have never read A Christmas Carol you can read both with this lovely set Jacob T. Marley and A Christmas Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Gift Set
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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest |
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Consider reading a children's story that has a sweet Christmas theme and or scenes. Little Women, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Little House on the Prairie have the holiday spirit and are solid enough in plot for a cheerful book club discussion. A must during a busy holiday season!
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End you holiday book club with a group photo and don't forget to choose your next read for the new year!