Book Lover Gift Ideas with Brittany Adams

I'm joined by my girl, Brittany Adams. Brittany, how are you? I am so good. I'm so excited to be here. I love having her on. So you guys may remember Brittany, because she was here before, and she is the founder, curator, whatever you want to call her, the mastermind behind the Bread and Butter Supper Club, which is like a book club, but with a twist, and it's fabulous. So Brittany, how are you? I'm amazing. Thank you so much for having me. Of course. I love having you here. We always have fun stuff to talk about. So if anybody is not familiar with who you are and what you do, tell everybody a little little bit about you and the book club before we kind of get into our Black Friday edition for book lovers. Yes. Okay. Hi, everyone. So my name is Brittany. I'm so excited to be here. I'm the founder of Bread and Butter Supper Club, founded it here, right here in Metro Detroit, Michigan. It is a women's book club and supper club. We read different books throughout the year, and then we gather. Sometimes it's themed, like a themed dinner to discuss the book. And enjoy amazing food at different restaurants around the Metro Detroit area. So, so far this year, we have done like Zana, we've done Mad Nice, we've done Hyde Park, you name it. At this point, we've probably paid them a little visit, transformed their private dining space to customize just our brand. So you'll have like bread and butter all over the room. If it's a themed dinner, we're dressed up. Maybe it's a Western theme. So we're in our cowboy hat. Or maybe it's color thing. So we're like an all red. Just an opportunity to really like dress up, you know, wear those clothes in our closet. Take a break from. Scrolling on social media, chat with your girlfriends and new girlfriends about an amazing book that may or may not be trending on booktops and just have an amazing, amazing night. And you just created something new, too, because you have the residency where you guys kind of get together, not in the setting of the dinner, but you get together to kind of read the book, chat a little bit before the big event. So read a little bit about that one. Yes. So we have a reading residency. You can definitely join that where it's almost like a book date. So we are gathering at the beginning of the selection of a book. We're gathering at different locations to kind of read a chapter or two again, take a break from social media, chat it up, connect, enjoy good wine, enjoy good food, and also just like explore other venues around the city. So we were just at Vespers Book and Wine. I love them. Love. It was such a vibe. It was moody lighting, amazing playlist, amazing food, amazing drink menu. And we had the opportunity to just, you know, read a chat. Now, granted, we were chit-chatting. Um... Maybe we read like a couple of pages this time. But it's a fun book date. And like I said, a fun opportunity to kind of. Not be on social media, deep dive into like a fictional world and, you know, connect with community. And it's fun because everybody doesn't have to finish the book. So you have like cute little quirks where it's like if you did finish it, if you didn't finish it. So it's not like the pressure to be like, OK, I got to hurry up and get through this, even though you might want to if you want to contribute a little more. But it's not it's not a necessity. So we are getting close to Black Friday. Yes. And as we know, all of us book lover people is so many little trinkets and gifts that you guys could get us. On Amazon and everything. So you sent over a list. I have my own list. So let's take a look at what you have on yours, which I think is pretty cool. Yes. So yes, for the book lovers, you know, you probably have a mom, a sister, girlfriend, wife, somebody is in a book club at this point. So here are some goodies we have. You can't go wrong with the socks, the custom book club socks. Let your loved ones know, hey, I am reading right now. I am in a whole fictional world. They're so cute, warm. Obviously, we're getting into the colder months. So you can't go wrong with some book club centric socks. So we also have on here some literary playing cards. So they're just regular playing cards if you want to play spades over the holiday season. And the artwork on these particular cards are some of the world's most famous writers. So you can't go wrong with that. Extremely thoughtful. We also have... A nice little tequila Mockingbird cocktail book and this custom cocktail book is very special because it is basically recipes that correlate with like literally some of the world's most popular So I think this is very thoughtful, very detailed and just really fun. So like if you have a loved one that's reading a certain popular book and they want to add in like a nice little drink for the evening, it's really nice to kind of pop this book out and see what the recipe is. And then lastly, just a little book club kit. So there's like a special timer in it. There's a couple of like universal questions. And this kit as well that can really help you like just deep dive into the book that you're reading a little bit more. Even if you are a book club of two, you can't really go wrong with these items. And, you know, another good thing, too, that you could probably add to your list for the girls is it's called the Bookmark Babes. And it's a black female owner and her bookmarks are enameled. It's metal enamel and they're all based on different people. So they have like one where like a lady has a Bible. There's one with the lady walking a dog. There's one riding a horse. So that would be cute little trinkets, too, to add to like the little little goodie bags or little list of things for fellow book lovers. You can hang it on a bookshelf. You could pop it in the book. It's always fun. And then my list is nowadays these little like build-it-yourself little book nook things that they have that's been trending all over BookTok. That's really fun. You kind of build it yourself and you have an option to like put it on your bookshelf and it has like a little light in there. So it's like kind of cute if you have it off at night. You can never go wrong with tote bags because... Instead of actually getting like the paper bag when you go to the store and like just filling up with books, reuse, reduce, recycle, that kind of spill dig. And then you also have Kindle in case you want to kind of get into the e-book. A lot of people prefer physical. Totally fine. You have the book reader in case you're more of like the physical copy person, don't want to always read with the light on. You can never go wrong with tea, reading, books, sweatshirts, mugs. You can never go wrong with mugs. Book puzzles. There's just so many different options that you can do and that you can have when it comes to the Black Friday. And then, of course, Amazon is always the way to go because why not? I mean, it's cheaper. It's not really Amazon Prime, but they always have, like, the good deals. You can ship it directly to that person or just hold it. for the holiday season. So that's pretty much fun. And then Britt, before I let you go, is there anything else you're working on? Now we're going to have you back next month because we have like some pretty big news, which is really exciting, but what else can people expect from you and where can they find you to your social media plug? Yes. So, um, our Instagram page and our, um, TikTok page is Bread and Butter Supper Club. And, um, the reading residency is The Reading Residency on Instagram. You can read along with us. Right now we are deep diving into ACOTAR, a court of thorns and roses. We are super excited to jump into this fandom, so you can read along with us. You don't have to join us in person. That's what the Reading Residency is about as well. If you want to join us digitally, you can. And we have an amazing, some amazing announcement coming up in Uh, literally next month. Yeah. But yeah. How are we already in December? I don't know. Next thing you know, it's going to be Christmas and everything else. But Britt, it is always wonderful having you here chit chatting. I cannot wait to announce what we're going to announce next month and all the fun things that you're doing. And thank you for contributing to like such a safe space for women to come in, especially if they're moms or wives and they just want some girl time and it revolves around reading, which I think is great. Thank you so much. And, of course, you're always, you know, you always got a seat here. Thank you so much for having me. And happy shopping, you all. We gave you all a nice little list to kickstart your Black Friday shopping for all your book lovers in your life. Yes, there's no excuses. You got plenty of time. Like you said, you know, if you don't want to go out in the crowd, online is your best friend. So we have a lot more coming up in a little bit, but we will be right back after a quick break.