Community event

Grab a drink and join a lively discussion about our October book club pick: Lesley Crewe’s newest novel, The Spirit of Scatarie.

Please register for free on our Eventbrite page, or swing by day of. Just bring yourself, your copy of The Spirit of Scatarie, and your thoughts!

November is still Novel Writing Month! Join us in a workshop on how to prepare for the challenge ahead: to write an entire novel within 30 days. Sounds steep? It’s possible! We’ll have lots of tools and tips to help make a plan, map out the days, schedule breaks, and stay motivated.

Hosted by Jonathan Cheung (Appetite for Books)
Featuring Lesley Chesterman, Janice Tiefenbach, Aimee Wimbush-Bourque, Jean-Sébastien Giguère, and Christine Flynn

Ever wondered how recipes become stories? Join this lively and insightful panel of acclaimed cookbook authors and chefs as they share their creative process — from the spark of inspiration to the final page.

Explore how food writing captures culture, memory, and emotion, and how storytelling continues to shape the way we cook and connect. The discussion will close with a book signing and a chance to meet the authors behind some of Canada’s most celebrated cookbooks.

Our next book club meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 15th.

Our book club is unique. Please read the following:

• Each participant will bring a locally authored or published novel they have recently read and can part with. Locally authored will be defined as an author living within the Atlantic Bubble.
• During the meeting, each person will take a turn telling everyone what they liked about the book they brought and why the others should read it.
• Each book will go into a basket, and at the end of the meeting, if a book sparked your interest, you’ll be able to take it home to read.
• If there is more than one person interested in reading the book, it will be brought back to the next meeting for another person’s turn.
• We may even host an author occasionally, and Dartmouth Book Exchange may even seed the basket once in a while.
• All are welcome to come and listen during the meetings, but only the people who brought a book will be guaranteed to leave with a book.

Our Book Club aims to promote local authors, their books, and the writing of reviews. #supportlocalauthors

Come join our Autumn Book Swap, where you can meet other book lovers and exchange your gently used books for the ones they bring!

While this event is free to all, we ask you to consider buying a drink (or perhaps a new book!) from our bookstore’s cafe.

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 dbex1187@gmail.com.

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.