How About A Sleepover – At A Library?

 

 

For over a century, scholars, clergy, and ordinary book nerds have enjoyed reading and studying a unique collection of books that now number 150,000 volumes in a historical and cozy setting that allows for patrons to sleep over. Indeed, Gladstone’s Library is the only such place in the entire United Kingdom to have such amenities.

Many dream of such an oasis, where book lovers gather to eat, sleep, read, and talk books 24/7 in a beautiful mansion that houses 26 bedrooms, a dining hall, fireplace, manicured gardens, leather chairs, wood-panel walls on the interior, and stone walls on the exterior.

It was started in 1889, founded by a prime minister, who donated his collection of 20.000 books to get things started. It is months away from celebrating its well-deserved 125th birthday.

Even in an era where more information is available on my phone than any one library could house, I imagine there is something invigorating to be around so many books, to feel grounded by being surrounded by a house of books, essentially a foundation of truth, ideas, information, experiences, and wild dreams.

If you want to experience, firsthand, the beauty and marvel of such a book palace in North Wales, check out how you can arrange for a visit and a stay by clicking on www.gladstoneslibrary.org.

 

“Understanding changes minds, but only action changes lives.”

--Best-Selling Author John Maxwell

 

“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

--Best-Selling Author Malcom Gladwell

 

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About Brian Feinblum

Brian Feinblum should be followed on LinkedIn. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2023. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.4 million pageviews. With 4,600+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades, including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and two jobs at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He recently hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America, and has spoken at ASJA, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. He has been featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald. For more information, please consult: www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum.