Blind Date With A Book Speed Dating Night

Name: Blind Date With A Book Speed Dating Night
Start: 2025-10-09T18:30:00-03:00
End: 2025-10-09T19:30:00-03:00
Location: Dartmouth Book Exchange

Schedule

Thu Oct 09 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-03:00

Location

Dartmouth Book Exchange | Halifax, NS

Local Dartmouth author Amy Spurway has one of the best first lines in her novels, maybe even the best first paragraph. For our Speed Dating event, Blind Date books use their first line(s) as their "pick-up" lines, so Amy will be here to tell us all about first lines: how she came up with her first line and their importance. She’ll also discuss her novel "Crow", winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction. There will be games and lots of laughter. Everyone gets one of these, never seen before, specially made, high-demand Blind Dates. Dress to impress. This is an adult event
A $10.50 fee- pre-registration is required for this event to monitor numbers. You can either register at the store, or by phone with a credit card at 902-435-1207, or by etransfer at [email protected].
The format of the night will be as follows;
• Participants will be given 30 seconds to flip over the Blind Date in front of them, read the Blind Date's pick-up line, and decide if they are interested and would like to take that date home with them. If they are interested, they take it back with them to their seat, and a new Blind Date with a Book replaces the one removed.
• If they are not interested in that particular date, they just flip it back over, for the next person in line, and return to the end of the line.
• This will continue until all participants have chosen their date for the night.
• Once everyone has picked their date, they can then unwrap them if they wish. We encourage people to wait until everyone has selected their date before unwrapping. Pictures of the lucky matches will be encouraged.