How to Find and Date Someone Who is Well Read

Well-read people make some of the most interesting companions – they not only make for delightful conversations but can even bring a fresh perspective on life and some of its issues. If you are widely-read yourself or simply like the company of well-read people, here are a few tips on meeting and dating those who have broad intellectual horizons.

Join a book club

one of the best ways of meeting well-read people is to join a book club since the very purpose of the group is bring together people who like to read. But the best part about this approach is that unlike a library, a book club is an avowedly social platform. The whole point of joining a book club is not simply to read books – a library membership will allow you to do that just as well – but indeed to meet other members, discuss favorite authors, review new launches and if in the mood shred to pieces offerings by new writers. In fact many men and women join book clubs in order to meet new people and make new friends based on mutual interests like books. How far your book club can reach out to attractive well-read singles and how frequent can it manage invites to celebrity book events is of course a matter of budget and membership fees. But even if a simple book society cannot offer you the glamour of a dating club, the quiet pleasure derived from discussing Byron or Jeffrey Archer in like-minded company can be matched by little else and if lucky can even mark the beginning of a long term association.

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Browse through book stores

Book stores are no longer the dark and musty places they used to be half a century ago with a severe-looking manager asking you to hurry up with your purchase. These days book stores are not only places where you can buy books but also delightful spaces where you can flip through the pages of your favorite romantic novellas or science fiction with soft music playing in the background and even a cup of steaming espresso at hand. The bigger stores in fact have several levels of reading and browsing spaces which house books separated by genre, author or time period.  Additionally the most reputed among these stores offer a whole range of lifestyle choices centered on books, reading accessories, fancy stationery, favorite CDs and DVDs and the like. All these factors have been responsible for attracting lovers of the written word, in far greater numbers than before to the extent that the reading spaces and coffee stations in these stores often turn out to be popular venues for checking out men and women of the opposite sex. However even if the frills do not attract you and all you want is a quiet nook to wander through the words of your favorite poet, you can still come up against a single guy or girl who also may be content to browse through Keats and Dickinson but at the same time more amenable to doing it in like-minded company.

Attend book launches

Well-read people are not necessarily found to be cooped up in libraries and book-shops. Many of them are regulars at cultural occasions and fashionable soirees in a city which is why you can look for well-read potential dates at celebrity events too. Within these you can raise your chances of success by frequenting high-profile book-based events – in fact book launches in recent years have emerged as some of the most sought-after cultural events and often draw a large section of attractive singles from various walks of society. Many times such launches include book reading sessions where the author reads out certain passages from the book to a select audience. Then again there are author signings where you cannot only have your copy scrawled by a celebrity signature but also check out other guests while sipping martinis and nibbling on appetizers. However even if you don’t care for the limelight, book launches can still offer valuable opportunities in connecting with other well-read people who are fans of a particular writer or aficionados of a certain literary genre.

Widen your own horizons

Once you have spotted a well-read person you would like to go out with, you may need to give some evidence of your own literary leanings so that there is an element of intellectual compatibility. this though does not mean that you should be an expert in molecular biology or history or be able to quote Shakespearean sonnets in one breath; neither does it imply that you should share the same reading preferences with your prospective date – indeed such a state of affairs would soon become boring as you both would not have much to share and exchange in your conversation. Rather you should be able to converse on a wide range of topics – with a degree of comfort and equanimity. Don’t appear to be trying too hard to impress your date or you would come off as desperate. similarly even if you are widely-read yourself, avoid sounding like a Mr./Ms Know-all since few people are as annoying as those who think they are the number one resource for any topic under the sun. instead make space  for the other person to put in his/her views and once in a while allow that you are not well aware about a certain matter but would like to know more about it – this has the double advantage of making you seem gracious while making the other person feel good about his/her level of awareness. And as any dating expert would tell you, making the other person feel good about him/herself when with you is the best way to get a date.