Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleepinactive

Publisher |: Sharon Handy

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Bedtime,; Books,; Health,; Mental Health,; Self-Help,; Sleep

Categories Via RSS |: Health & Fitness,; Mental Health

Boring Books for Bedtime is a weekly sleep podcast in which we calmly, quietly read something rather boring to silence the brain chatter keeping you awake. Think Aristotle, Thoreau, and whoever wrote the 1897 Sears Catalog—mostly nonfiction, mostly old, a perfect blend of vaguely-but-not-too interesting.

If you're on Team Sleepless, lie back, take a deep breath, and let us read you to rest.

People |: Sharon Handy
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: USA
Premiere Date |: 2018-11-05
Related Hashtags |: #insomnia,; #sleep,; #sleepstories,; #SleepStories
Frequency |: Weekly
Explicit |: No

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240 Available Episodes (240 Total) / Average duration: 00:53:22

Date Duration Most Reviewed Highest Rated

240 Available Episodes (240 Total)Average duration: 00:53:22

Apr 24, 2023

00:44:46

Let’s fall asleep to schooling in the fine art of drawing. We learn how to hold a pencil and draw a line, but only after the kind of lengthy introduction at which 19th century writers excelled. My favorite!

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Read “Harding’s Lessons on Drawing” at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/hardings-lessons-on-drawing-a-classic-approach-dover-art-instruction-2nd-revised

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

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Apr 17, 2023

00:47:13

Let’s sleep through the stress of Tax Day with more from this capital classic, learn the history of money, how diamonds are dumb, and why a cow’s worth of salt is…really too much salt.

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Read "The Wealth of Nations" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300

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

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Apr 10, 2023

00:52:21

Let’s take a sleepy browse through this marvelous catalog, just in time for spring. Vegetables, flowers, and novelties for the garden abound from America’s finest purveyor of plants.

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Browse the 1916 Burpee’s Seed Catalog at the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/CAT31297360

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

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Apr 03, 2023

00:54:40

In this remastered episode from the wayback, let’s take a relaxing trip aboard the good ship Bounty, which maybe you’ve heard of? It’s all breadfruit and bad weather (so far). Sleep ahoy!

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Read “A Voyage to the South Sea” at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15411

Music: "Watching Whales on the Moon,” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY: https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

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Mar 27, 2023

00:53:57

Let’s return to the British Museum of the 19^th century and complete our sleepy tour of birds of the world, from ducks to dodos. It’s case after case of curiosities for your tired mind!

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Read “How to See the British Museum in Four Visits” at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13755

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

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Mar 20, 2023

00:48:31

Let’s relax into delicious dreams with this guide to confectionery. Learn the correct stripes for stick candy, the construction of “strawberry rock,” and the stages of sugar. Sweet!

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Read “Frye’s Practical Candy Maker” at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37073

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

If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, http://www.boringbookspod.com.

Mar 13, 2023

00:50:10

Let's return to more sleepy science and ponder life on the moon, the makeup of meteorites, and the long, strange lives of comets as they wander through our universe. Spacey!

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Read “Astronomy for Young Folks” at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45112

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

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Mar 06, 2023

00:50:02

Let's begin a sleepy trip through the mountains of France, in which our novice author invents a sleeping bag, buys a donkey, and answers the question, “What could go wrong?”

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Read “Travels with a Donkey” at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/535

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

If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, http://www.boringbookspod.com.

Feb 27, 2023

01:08:29

Let’s trip back in time two years ago (!!) and relax with this newly remastered paean of praise from one transcendentalist to another. We should all be so lucky to be spoken of like this.

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Read “Excursions” at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9846

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

If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, http://www.boringbookspod.com.

Feb 20, 2023

00:49:01

Let’s relax and sleep with more from Mrs. Post as she instructs us in the art of conversation, thinking before we speak, and avoiding unforgivable pretentiousness. Useful!

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Read “Etiquette” at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14314

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

If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, http://www.boringbookspod.com.

Apr 24 | 00:44:46

Harding's Lessons on Drawing, by J.D. Harding, Part 1

Apr 17 | 00:47:13

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 2

Apr 10 | 00:52:21

The 1916 Burpee's Seed Catalog, Part 1

Apr 03 | 00:54:40

Relaxation Rewind! The Voyage of The Bounty to the South Sea, by William Bligh, Part 1

Mar 27 | 00:53:57

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits, by W.B. Jerrold, Part 2

Mar 20 | 00:48:31

Frye's Practical Candy Maker, by GV Frye, Part 1

Mar 13 | 00:50:10

Astronomy for Young Folks, by Isabel Martin Lewis, Part 7

Mar 06 | 00:50:02

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 1

Feb 27 | 01:08:29

Relaxation Rewind! Biographical Sketch of Henry David Thoreau, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feb 20 | 00:49:01

Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 4

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