Last weekend, I had the pleasure of joining Patty @ Bookishwanderlovee and Amanda @ Brains Books and Brawn at hosting Jingle Books and MistleTOe: A Bookmas Gathering. It was a night of snackages, book talk, and shenanigans involving Patty’s cat Snowball.
Attendees brought snacks ranging from Lindt and Ferrero Rocher chocolate to Tiff @ MostlyYALit bringing a box of Popeyes chicken wings. Seriously. We didn’t even have to order pizza (the original intent) as there were many bite sized snacks to feed on.
Conversations ranged from the standard “what are you reading” to recent drama in the book community. I keep forgetting to take pictures of the events I go to!
There was also a book exchange where the original plan was to play White Elephant Gift Exchange/Yankee Swap where one person goes at a time and the preceding person can choose to swap with the people before them. Buuuut it was a collective decision to just exchange without the active swapping LOL.
It was an awesome time with people from the community even if this little group isn’t truly representative of the book community within the Greater Toronto Area. The event was a last minute thing amidst exams and early Monday work.
If you’re from the GTA or Southern Ontario and you didn’t get an email invitation from me, I probably didn’t know you’re from the area and you should inform me (because the next bookish gathering will be in the works shortly…maybe).
And a photo of the gang, courtesy of Patty’s phone (I think this is the only picture we took LOL):
ALSO THANKS TO AMANDA FOR LETTING ME BORROW HER TRUTHWITCH ARC *dies*.
Cheers,
Joey
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thoughts and afterthoughts. 
I wish there were more Winnipeg book bloggers that I know of so we can do something like this as well. Glad you had fun!
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Ahhh I can’t help you there, I think you’re the only one I know of in that area!
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loved reading your recap joey! still wish i could’ve been there! but this recap was the next best thing 🙂
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YOU’RE EXPECTED TO ATTEND THE NEXT ONE, OK?
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This is so great that you have an event like that you can attend to. I’d love to meet some book blogger friends, too. Great recap, glad to hear you had a good time! 🙂
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This was a meetup we had to start on our own so if you know of other book community members in France (I think? LOL), you should totally reach out too!
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Yes that’s right, ahah, you’re so good at remembering things like that, I’m impressed! :p I think I will!
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I WILL BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR OTHER FRENCH BLOGGASAURUS’S
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OH YES! THANK YOU, oh what would I do without you!!
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That sounds like so much fun!!
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It was! Considering Canada doesn’t get too many book signings to meet up with the community, events like these are nice to have.
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Yes I totally know how you feel I live in Canada too!
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Oh, where bouts do you hail from?
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I’m in Kitchener, its about an hour away from Toronto.
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Oh! Would you be interested in coming to a future event held in Toronto? Just asking so I’d know if I had to add you to the e-mail list haha.
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Oh yes I’d looooove to!
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It sounds and looks like you all had a grand time together! It’s wonderful that you have bloggers in your area who you can meet up with to chat about books. I must start digging to find people in MY area.
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Josie :(! I feel like you’re the only one from [Perth?] that I know of! Everyone else seems to be Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane. Maybe you could all meet in one location in the future. I’m praying for this to happen!
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I know, I’m so lonely over here! In the future, I think that would be so awesome! I’m praying for it too!
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Or all you Oz’s could attend BEA or something in the future and I’ll fly down from Canada too to meet all you lovely people HAHA.
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Oh yes, we could definitely do that! 😁
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Thanks for inviting us! we had lots of fun … and those ferrero rochers were clearly a hit 😉 haha
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Thanks for coming! I totally thought you two weren’t going to come because [I think] you hail from Mississauga?
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Haha yes we do 😉 and we’re used to going to Toronto for bookish events anyway, so ‘s all good 😛
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Good to know for future events!
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Seriously, killing it in the blog commenting department tonight Joey! I expect a prompt reply to this.
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CAN U NOT THO
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So sad that my exams made me miss this 😦
Glad it was a blast! I hope to catch the next one!
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Hopefully the next event will have an earlier notice (and that you’ll be able to go!)
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This seems like a really fun party! 🙂 are you guys going to do it regularly from now on? I wish I live close enough to other bloggers to attend one.
How are you enjoying Truthwitch? 🙂
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Not sure about the regularity of events like these but with rarely anything that happens in Canada (at least in comparison to our American counterpart), it’s nice to have these kinds of things since it’s basically an extension of online chilling on Twitter etc.
And I’m reading Truthwitch pretty slowly but I’m enjoying it thus far!
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I’m so sad I couldn’t make it! I hate that I work on weekends 😦 Hopefully I can make the next one!
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Next time for sure Jamie!
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I’m glad you all had a wonderful time. It’s so nice that you guys were able to meet up and talk about all things bookish haha. I’d love to meet people from the blogging community and if i can’t find anyone in my general vicinity I’ll just have to hop on a plane and crash your next meet up. 😉
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Where do you live Lois? I’m asking to see if I know anyone in your area whom you could totally meet up and chill with!
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I live in North East Wales (UK) so city wise the closest I can think of would be Manchester or Liverpool. 😀
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