November 2025 Meetup (Night 2)

Because we are limiting the event to 30 attendees, we are hosting it twice! Please only RSVP to one event.
Our annual Holiday meetup of Read Between the Wines!
It’s a “dirty santa” style game – with books! Everyone comes with a book, and everyone leaves with a book.
What to bring:
1 book in new or gently used condition – select a book that you’ve read this year and loved. Write the first line of the book on a piece of paper. Wrap the book in holiday wrapping, then tape the paper with the first line on the outside of the wrapping.
How to play:
Once everyone has checked in, each member will blindly draw a number to establish the sequence of the game. In order of drawn numbers, attendees will browse the wrapped books and either select one from the table based on the first line or steal a previously unwrapped book.
Rules:
•If your book has just been stolen from you, you can steal an unwrapped book or pick another from the table. This continues until the last player’s turn.
•You cannot steal the one that was just stolen from you, nor a book that was stolen in the same round.
•Each book can only be stolen 3 times throughout the game. After 3 steals, it is considered “locked” (if there are duplicate copies of the same book, EACH copy can be stolen up to 3 times).
•When it is the last person’s turn, we enter the final round. All previously “locked” books become unlocked for this round. The player can take the last wrapped book from the table or steal any unwrapped book. In this round, each book can only be stolen once before it is locked again (as above, duplicate copies can each be stolen once).
•Anytime you unwrap or steal a book, you must show the book to the group. Books must remain visible and ready to be shown to any player at any time.
The game will promptly start at 6:30pm and will be limited to 30 players.