Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep – Details, episodes & analysis

Let's cast our lines into the river of relaxation with this classic about the art of fishing. This time, we begin with a conversation between a hunter, a falconer, and an angler about the relative superiority of their professions. But first, an overwrought patron dedication and lengthy, self-deprecating epistle to the reader, in perfect 17th century style. Deliciously dull!

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Read "The Compleat Angler" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/683

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Let's celebrate our seventh anniversary with more from this catalog of lovely, affordable homes, a dream indeed, and all certified by a team of women as perfect in every detail. But first, some very thorough assurances that these plans are entirely satisfactory or your money back. Guaranteed!

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Read "1921 Sears Roebuck & Co. Modern Homes Catalog" at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/honorbiltmodernh00sear/mode/2up?

Music: "Heaven Be Here," by PC III, licensed under CC BY

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Let relaxation rise with this conclusion to one of our most (understandably) popular books. This time in we learn of gingerbread, penny loaf scrambles, riots, and bread-related superstitions like sin-eating and . . . floating corpse compasses? Oh, delicious bread, is there anything you can't do?

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Read "The History of Bread" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53219

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Let's relax with detailed instructions for the arts of gilding, silvering, and the making of curious inks and secret messages, all of which involve more muskrats, honey, and wolf's teeth than one might expect.

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Read "A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38067

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Let's wrap up Listener Request Month with the chronicle of the first solo sailing voyage around the world. Sail to sleep aboard the Spray as our captain builds his ship and starts an adventure most only dream of.

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Read "Sailing Alone Around the World" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6317

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Let's continue Listener Request Month with this delightfully thorough guide to train journeys. From reading a timetable to choosing the right portmanteau and hiring someone to throw gravel at your window, every practicality is considered.

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Read "The Railway Travellers' Handy Book" at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/railwaytraveller00unse

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

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Let's continue Listener Request Month with this guide to country buildings, by which I mean a treatise on the morality of housing, the meaning of beauty, and the art of proportion. Whatever it is, it's relaxing!

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Read "The Architecture of Country Houses" at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/architectureofco00down/mode/2up

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Let's kick off Listener Request Month with this classic, our first full "verse" offering. Scheming gods, shipwrecks, and heroic speeches, it's everything you want from an epic you just pretended to read in school.

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Read "The Aeneid" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/228

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Let's slip into spooky sleep with more about the origins of the werewolf, including Scandinavian berserkers and greedy nobles. Your brain will quietly howl with boredom.

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Read "The Book of Werewolves" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5324

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

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Let's relax with more carby goodness as we learn about naughty bakers, how flour is made, and the terrible reputations of millers. Also, charts of chemical percentages, and I mangle some Chaucer. What *can't* bread do?

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Read "The History of Bread" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53219

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