Bedside Reading Brings Reading Back
Check out these amazing authors by clicking on their names, Jennifer Moorman, Megan Edwards and Seymour Ubell.
One of the best ideas I have seen at a luxury and lifestyle hotel is a concept called Bedside Reading. Bedside Reading puts books on the nightstands of hotels that go with the theme of where you are staying. The best part is you are free to take them at the end of your stay, so no more leaving half-read books behind, and there is something so special about reading a book on paper. It is a lost art. Bedside Reading is trying to bring it back. I had the chance to try it myself at the luxurious Jacquard hotel in Cherry Creek. There is something magical about curling up with a good book, in a hotel robe with nowhere to be.
Every hotel has different books, so if you are a luxury chain hotel person and travel often (think Waldorf Astorias or Mandarin Orientals), you won't find the same book twice, and if you happen to frequent the same hotel, books are changed out monthly. Genres run from Children’s books to memoirs, fiction, non-fiction and everything in between. The authors range from well known to first publication. This idea was started by Jane Ubell-Meyer, who had a bad trip with a boyfriend in her twenties and made a vow to herself never to leave home without a book again.
This weekend Bedside Reading is hosting the second annual Hamptons Bedside Reading Winter Authors' Weekend. It is a weekend retreat at several luxurious hotels in the Hamptons, New York. It includes cocktail parties, brunch, six books, and the opportunity to meet and talk to the authors of books currently in Bedside Reading. It sounds like a book lovers dream. To buy your tickets click here For more info and to hear podcasts check out www.bedsidereading.com and check out what hotels are reading this month, below!
February
Acqualina Resort & Spa
Good Authority - Jonathan Raymond
Lost Tomorrows - Matt Coyle
When We Found Home - Susan Mallery
Commonwealth Boston
The Prophecy - Kim Sakwa
The Changemaker - Deke Copenhaver
Dream Inn
Staying Bothered - Jamie C. Amelio
The Labyrinth Influence - PJ Jackson
The Jacquard
Bulwark - Brit Lunden
The Golf Course Millionaire - Robin Richter
The James New York - SoHo
The Association - Susan Ann Ziegler
The Birth Mother - Seymour Ubell
Fairmont Miramar
Good Authority - Jonathan Raymond
Finding Mrs Ford - Deborah Goodrich Royce
The Baker’s Man - Jennifer Moorman
The Price of Time - Tim Tigner
Mandarin Oriental DC
The Birth Mother - Seymour Ubell
Vivid Vision - Cameron Herold
Mandarin Oriental NY
The Birth Mother - Seymour Ubell
The Prize - Geoffrey M. Cooper
Morrison House
The Birth Mother - Seymour Ubell
The Changemaker - Deke Copenhaver
Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills
Cold Silence - Danielle Girard
The Prophecy - Kim Sakwa
Waldorf Astoria Chicago
The Association - Susan Ann Ziegler
The Birth Mother - Seymour Ubell