Date Ideas

The Bookstore Date Idea

This is one date idea that was suggested to us awhile ago, and I’ve been curious to try it! I love reading, always have. Den, not so much. But I thought we’d give it a crack anyway. A beautiful, warm Wednesday night so we took a stroll down Lygon Street to Borders and good-naturedly fended off the hawking waiters the whole way down. The conversation quickly slipped into the familiar date night banter, and before we knew it we’d arrived into the brightly lit bookstore.

Each of us set off to find our favourite books that had impacted our lives in some way. We agreed to meet in the cafe where we would sit and tell each other, one by one, why we loved the book, what it meant to us, what was going on in our lives at the time. We settled in over coffee and cheesecake and began.

It was always going to be an interesting exercise. I laughed as I realised most of my books were childhood fairytales, while Den had a stack of nothing but business motivation books. That alone says so much about who we are, and it may not seem like an ideal match. But fortunately I believe that opposites attract – both of us bring such a different view and approach to almost everything we do. It makes sure we’re never bored, at least! The key to opposites is that your core values and morals are aligned. Everything else is just semantics.

So we sat and whiled away the time over conversations of The Faraway Tree and Anne of Green Gables meets Losing My Virginity and Think and Grow Rich. What were you doing at that time? Where do you remember reading the book? What did you think about it? Did it inspire you? Did it make you believe in great things? (In my case: fairies. In Den’s: triumph).

It was a lovely conversation, and a great date night for new and long term couples alike. A completely different way to spark a conversation and find out things you would never usually talk about. Reminded me of the Kikki-K date we did for Valentine’s Day last year!

What are other ways you know of to spark off conversations – either with new dates or long-time loves?

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