Valentine's Day is not just for classroom parties and celebrating lovers. Here are some sweet ideas for book loving friends and must read romantic novels
- Have an Italian theme dinner with pasta as the main course and friends bring the salad, wine and or bread. Read The Shoemaker's Wife, Enchanted April or A Room With a View by EM Forester with an Italian inspired landscape as your setting
- Dessert only - Have everyone bring a dessert of their choice and decorate your table with quotes of friendship and or love for an added bookish touch. Read historical fiction that is all romance and passion such as: Like Water for Chocolate, Outlander's book 9 or newer fiction like, Next Year in Havana
- A wine, cheese and hors d'oeuvres book party - Bring your favorite bottle of pinot noir or appetizer and for a more bookish flare apply our ideas for, do-it-yourself wine labels - see below. Pair your Valentine book party with a true story or a classic novel. Suggestions below!
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Be still my bookish heart
- Is this love for real? Biographies or 'based on a true love story' that will sweep you away. The Paris Wife, My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Becoming Mrs. Lewis
- Classic sweethearts - Some of these novels are almost one hundred plus years old but have eternal love, determination that will stand the test of time. Read Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Lorna Doone and The Scarlet Pimpernel
“You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
A Room with a View ~ EM Forster
Get your book club party started!
Do-it-yourself - Create your own beverage labels using Avery 22826 or Avery 22845. Whether you have wine, lemonade or water bottles at your Valentine book club add your own personal touch by using Avery's free template to design friendship quotes, book quotes or pictures of book friends. The sky is the limit!
*photos belong to Go Beyond Book Club
Tip: Place your Avery labels over the labels on the bottles OR use adhesive remover to remove the label and sticky residue for a clean slate
A friendship quote by C.S. Lewis
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An example of book quotes and or sayings
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Vino Markers on Amazon
Keep tabs on your drinks by using these wine glass pens. Have more book fun by writing character names on your glasses
Keep tabs on your drinks by using these wine glass pens. Have more book fun by writing character names on your glasses
Print at home Valentine bookmarks
Give your book friends these do-it-yourself instant bookmarks that show your love for reading!
Easy to print and assemble
Easy to print and assemble
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I love and admire you." ~ Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice