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The Book Nerd’s Guide to Spring Break: 34 Ways to Celebrate
The sun is finally shining like it means it. You can actually sit outside and read without getting frostbite. Spring has sprung—and that means spring break is here, too! Even book nerds need to let loose. In fact, scratch that—after long hours shopping for books, reading books, going to book clubs, talking about books, and even writing books, book nerds need spring break more than anyone. So when wet T-shirt contests obviously won’t do, how do you put your literary party hat on? Below are some of our favorite nerd-worthy ways to go crazy.
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1. Get a bookish tattoo
2. Go door to door campaigning for the Granger-Lovegood 2016 ticket
3. Underline everything with abandon
4. Build an impenetrable reading fort
5. Use ALL the highlighters
6. Rock bright new page flags
7. Wake up to a book-shaped sunburn
8. Bend down page corners willy nilly
9. Slip book reviews in the covers of your favorite books for strangers to find
10. Play backyard Jenga with your coffee table books
11. Drink too much butterbeer
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12. Make every cocktail in Tequila Mockingbird
13. Binge read Elena Ferrante’s books
14. Have a fling with a beachy romance novel
15. Invent a literary drinking game
16. Hold a new cover contest with your friends and sketch new designs for a book you always thought deserved better art
17. Travel to Verona and leave a love letter at Juliet’s wall
18. Leave books unfinished like you just don’t care
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19. Get yourself a shiny new bookmark
20. Tweet (respectful, woke) catcalls to a favorite author
21. Take your waterproof NOOK to the pool and don’t worry about errant cannonballs
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22. Get Gatsby-esque and wear a boa and use a monocle while you read
23. Dance on top of a bar while reading
24. Use the first word of the last book you read and the author’s first name of the book you’re reading now to create your MTV VJ name
25. Ask out whoever you know that looks most like your idea of Mr. Darcy (or Elizabeth Bennet).
26. Spin the bottle to choose your next read
27. Write a fan-fiction version of Outlander set in Thailand
28. Hire a book sherpa to carry your babies from beach to beach
29. Take breaks with a literary coloring book
30. Paint your nails to match the book you’re reading
31. Grab a can of whipped cream and make some abstract art to celebrate the book you’re reading
32. Take a B&N quiz to gain some deep insights into who you are as a reader
33. Write a poem about the meaning of umbrella drinks
34. Preorder Gwyneth’s new cookbook so you’ll be ready for your post Spring Break cleanse