Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy

  • 52 minutes 48 seconds
    Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 3

    Let’s continue our journey to sleep with this delightful trek through the mountains of France. This time, we visit a Trappist monastery, where our author appreciates scenery, silence, and the paradoxical stillness of being busy. Peaceful!

     

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    Music: "earth 2 earth,” by PC III, licensed under CC BY

     

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    16 December 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 58 minutes 11 seconds
    Frye's Practical Candy Maker, by G.V. Frye - Part 3, The Conclusion

    Let’s conclude our sweetly sleepy reading from this guidebook for the nineteenth-century maker of fancy candies. This time, creams, chocolates, and syrups for the soda fountain. Deliciously dreamy!

     

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    9 December 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 53 minutes 58 seconds
    Woodworking for Beginners, by Charles G. Wheeler, Part 3

    Let’s saw our way to sleep with more from this helpful guide for the novice woodworker. This time, we build our own work bench, improvise a vise, and discover that “measure twice, cut once” is always good advice.

     

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    Music: "Peace” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

     

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    2 December 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 50 minutes 51 seconds
    Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply, by Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Part 2

    Let’s relax with more from this wonderful guide to studying art in Europe. This time, where to shop in London, the best boarding houses, and then we’re off to Paris with some genteel commentary about being a woman in a man’s artsy world. Take up your brushes, ladies!

     

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    25 November 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 55 minutes 20 seconds
    The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged, by Nicholas Culpeper, Part 1

    Let’s, uh, improve our health with this compendium of questionable herbal advice from 1650. But first, the kind of sleep-inducing, self-congratulatory introduction in which only a 17th-century apothecary can excel. Delightful!

     

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    Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

     

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    18 November 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 46 minutes 9 seconds
    A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 8

    Let’s hop in our sleepy wayback machine and relax with more from this remarkable little history of everything. This time, the Roman Empire, Hannibal, and the rise of the emperors. Quiescamus!

     

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    Music: "Cosmic Tingles” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

     

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    11 November 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 51 minutes 40 seconds
    The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, Part 1

    Let’s journey to sleep with Henry David Thoreau as he explores the back of beyond in Maine, ponders the fate of forests, visits some barely-there towns, and…gets accosted by politicians? Talk about timing!

     

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    Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

     

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    4 November 2024, 11:00 am
  • 53 minutes 15 seconds
    The Book of Werewolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould, Part 3

    Let’s celebrate the spooky season with more from this history of lycanthropy and a long chapter of wolfish folktales. Bears, hares, and dogs drinking cider are also mentioned. Honestly, the human imagination is so delightfully weird.

     

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    Music: "Dream Colours” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

     

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    28 October 2024, 11:00 am
  • 50 minutes 25 seconds
    Faery Lands of the South Seas, by Hall and Nordhoff, Part 3

    Let’s sail the seas of sleep with more from this marvelous travelogue from the South Seas. This time, we encounter a waterspout and get happily marooned on an idyllic island. Cast away your cares, friends. It’s a lovely tale.

     

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    Music: "Ocean Tapping" by PC III, licensed under CC BY

     

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    21 October 2024, 11:00 am
  • 48 minutes 56 seconds
    Astronomy for Young Folks, by Isabel Martin Lewis (Part 9)

    Let’s fall asleep with a new reading from this wonderful look into our universe. This time, we contemplate the phases of the moon, the life and death of the stars, and our position in this vast and whirling universe. The stuff of starry visions indeed!

     

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    Music: "Exit Exit" by PC III, licensed under CC BY

     

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    14 October 2024, 11:00 am
  • 53 minutes 59 seconds
    Old Country Inns of England, by Maskell and Gregory, Part 1

    Let’s fall asleep with a new listener request! This time, we travel back in time to learn the origins of that most pleasant and cozy of places, the country inn. From manors to monasteries and pilgrimage houses, it’s quite a relaxing trip.

     

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    7 October 2024, 11:00 am
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