Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Books As Events

Top Five Wednesday is actually a Youtube tag that happens every week. Sam from the YouTube channel Thoughts On Tomes is the host, and I’ll link her video for this week here. Essentially, there is a specific topic where you choose five books that fit with the topic of that week. This week, the theme is Books as Events. So, what books do you think would make a good themed party? I’m not very good at hosting themed parties, but I’ll start with an obvious bonus, because I’m sure we all know at least someone who has been to a party with this theme—Harry Potter. It’s such a classic and I myself have been to multiple parties of this theme. You can’t really go wrong. I guess I’ll start with the books that I would think would make a really cool party theme.

5. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
            It’s been so long since I’ve read this book, but it’s still one of my favorites. It’s about a magical black-and-white circus where magicians have magical battles and—to be honest I don’t particularly remember much of the plot. It might be time to re-read this soon. But just think of a party that was inspired by this world. It would just be magical.

4. Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
            Something about a Sherlock Holmes party would be just so much fun to me. I’ve always been a fan of the books and the movies (the Robert Downey Jr. ones). It would be so cool to have some kind of mystery dinner with all the characters of these books and short stories featured in some way. It would be so cool to be in the middle of one of these mysteries ‘come to life.’

3. A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
            I just think it would be so much fun to pretend to be a part of any of the high courts in this series. Faeries have always fascinated me, and they’re such party animals anyways that this would be so much fun. It would probably be more of a formal party but I would just love seeing all of the outfits that people would show up in.

2. Heartless by Marissa Meyer
            This is an Alice in Wonderland retelling. Technically it focuses on the Queen of Hearts, before she became the Queen of Hearts. But an Alice in Wonderland party is always fun. Cath, the main character in Heartless only cares about baking, so the deserts of this party would have to be top notch. Now I want to throw an Alice in Wonderland party. Those are always so much fun!

1. The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare
            I think that any of the Cassandra Clare books that are published would be fun, but The Infernal Devices takes place in Victorian London. I love reading about this era, and I think that it would be really fun to have everyone come in the gowns and suits that they wore. Maybe it would be a kind of ball, but I think it would be fascinating to have a mix of Victorian Era clothing and Shadowhunter (the supernatural police of this world) attire in the same room.


These are all of the books that I think would make really fun events. I’m sure there are others that I’m missing, but these are the ones that came to mind first. Let me know of any others you guys think would make fun events in the comments! I’m going to leave a link to the YouTube video here, so you can go check out the original post.

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