If books be the food of love, read on….
Today of course is Valentine’s Day and books can help you today more than ever in more ways than one. If you’re in love, in a couple etc then there are some lovely books to celebrate love and if you’re not, or if you’re single then there are some lessons to be learned and comfort to be had from fictional love stories.
Plus with Booktrail books you get to visit the luscious locations if all else fails
Looking for love? Take a dog for a walk – Travel: Head to New York
You could be like Molly in the novel – she’s good at fixing other people up but has problems when it comes to herself. You could be like Dan – a high flyer with no time to find love for himself. Well, it turns out that dog walking is a very good way of meeting someone.
If all else fails, you get to spend a lovely time in Central Park and the city which never sleeps so you’ll get to wander take time out of the world and avoid all the valentine couples going to dinner in a horse driven carriage.
Sign up to The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau – Travel: Fly between the USA and England
The downside to a marriage bureau is that love doesn’t always come into the equation. Wealthy families have tried to marry off their daughters and sons for years in order to continue the family name and to increase their fortunes. Good families have to marry good families. The American women in the story marry into rich aristocratic families so you will be able to visualise the opulence and see the possibility of buying a husband or wife if all else fails.
The downside to this of course is that a gilded cage is still a cage. That meal for one doesn’t seem as bad now does it?
Still can’t find The One? – Travel : Fly across the world
This book has an exciting premise – you can send in a DNA swab and see who you are meant to be with – scientifically speaking. Whether you’re in a couple or single, you #MatchyourDNA and see where it leads to. What better way to find who you are really meant to be with? You could end up flying all the way to Australia to meet your match as one character does in the novel.
The downside of course is that it all sounds good but what happens if you are in a couple already and the swab tells you that you should be with someone else – or someone of the opposite sex? What if you don’t find your match attractive? Science can only do so much.
When all else fails – head to Paris .. on your own Travel: Paris
It is the city of love after all and there’s lots of chance of meeting someone here or just being swept up in the feel of the city. New York never sleeps and neither does Paris for when it gets dark, the city of light shines and twinkles with even more magic. There’s lots of stories here with characters from the authors other books so you can get to to meet a wide range of people including someone who’s never been to Paris before. Share in her wonderment and realise why you love the city yourself.
And for somewhere completely different…..with characters to keep your feet on the ground….
Read the BookTrail article here
There is also two British locations you really shouldn’t forget – Aberdeen and Newcastle. Gritty stories often set here but then sometimes when you need a bit of gritty realism, Aberdeen through the eyes of Denise Mina and Stuart Macbride and Newcastle through the eyes of Vera (if you need to be brought back to reality after your head’s been in the clouds look no further) and Howard Linskey – I wrote a Travel Guide and tips on how Booktrails can keep you fit on the Visit Britain site – well, after all that chocolate today, it might come in handy!
What ever you do, wherever you travel to this Valentine’s Day, have a lovely bookish one!
