Between The Wines Book Club
⭐ Travel Book Fiction 2020

Travel Book

By BTW The Wines
2020

A Story Within a Story β€” Our Anniversary Journey

Some love stories are written in words. Others are written in miles, in dog-eared pages, in handwritten notes left in the margins for someone you haven’t met yet.

This one is both.

On our first anniversary, we decided to celebrate the way we do everything β€” a little unconventionally, a little magically, and with a very good book.

We wanted to mark the moment with something that would grow beyond us. Something that would move through the world, carrying our story inside it, picking up new voices and new handwriting along the way. A living, breathing record of people, places, and the quiet, powerful act of reading.

So we created something we’re calling The Traveling Book.

πŸ“¬ How It Works

One book. One journey. Many readers.

Every member of our little book family receives this book at their home β€” no shipping label needed, no online order. It arrives like a secret, hand-delivered by the invisible chain of people who came before them. They read it at their own pace, in their own corner of the world β€” maybe in a cozy armchair in Santo Domingo, maybe at a kitchen table in New York, maybe wrapped in a blanket somewhere in Canada while snow falls outside.

And before they pass it on, they leave something behind.

A note. A thought. A drawing. A pressed flower. A coffee stain and an apology for the coffee stain. Whatever feels right. Whatever they want the next reader to find tucked between the pages like a small gift from a stranger who is also somehow a friend.

🀫 The Rules β€” Yes, There Are Rules

We keep things simple around here. There are exactly two of them:

Rule 1 β€” The Secret Must Hold. Nobody outside our circle knows which book it is. The title stays a mystery until you hold it in your hands and turn to page one. Half the magic is in not knowing what you’re about to fall into.

Rule 2 β€” Keep It Moving. Read it, love it, leave your mark on it β€” and then send it on its way. The book belongs to all of us, which means it belongs to none of us for too long.

Rule 3 β€” Highlight your favorite parts and put your initials.

πŸ—ΊοΈ Where Is the Book Right Now?

That is the question, isn’t it?

Explore the map below to find out exactly where our book has been, where it is now, and who has had the pleasure of reading it. Each pin is a reader. Each reader is a chapter in the bigger story we’re all writing together.

Is it in a cafΓ© in Manhattan right now? Sitting on a nightstand in Toronto? Still making its way north through the snow?

Check the map and find out.


πŸ“Έ Follow the Journey

This post is alive. We’ll be updating it as the book travels with photos of the book in its new homes, snapshots of the notes people leave inside, little glimpses of the cities it passes through and the people who welcomed it.

So bookmark this page. Come back often. And if you’re one of our readers we can’t wait to see where you take it.

The book is out there somewhere, turning pages, collecting stories, waiting for you.

Where is the book!? Who had read it?

Explore de map to find out