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Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep Sharon Handy
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4.4 • 78 Ratings
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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.
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Relaxation Rewind! How to Listen to Music, by Henry E. Krehbiel, Part 1
Tonight, while your reader recovers from a snuffly illness, let’s rewind to 2021 and fall into the rhythm of sleep with a book that works hard to put meaning into music, but mostly just manages to make it boring. So…kind of perfect, really.
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Read “How to Listen to Music” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17474
Music: "Healing,” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Our National Parks, by John Muir, Part 4
Let’s celebrate Earth Day with more from Muir’s poetic ode to the spectacular natural wonders of North America. This time, we complete our relaxing tour of Yellowstone and head to beautiful Yosemite, the jewel of the Sierras. Truly the stuff of dreams.
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Music: "Watching Whale on the Moon,” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Handbook on Cheese Making, by George E. Newell, Part 2
Let’s return to the relaxing world of dairy products and learn more about the design of a good curing room, dividing profits among your producers, and what makes a great cheese. Hint: it’s definitely not skim milk!
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Music: "Chasing Colours,” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Mars and Its Canals, by Percival Lowell, Part 3
Let’s return to this sleep-inducing exploration, and speculation, about the Red Planet. This time, we learn about seasonal fluctuations of the poles and how they do or don’t mirror our own. Which is exactly as interesting as it sounds.
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Music: "Dream Colours,” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
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Practical Mind Reading, by William Walker Atkinson, Part 3 (Conclusion)
Let’s find our mental rapport with sleep as we conclude this, uh, scientific guide to mind reading, learn how to find cards and drive a wagon while blindfolded, and discover how naughty charlatans dupe the public. Fake mind readers, you say? Impossible!
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Music: "Exit Exit,” by PC III, licensed under CC BY
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The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 3
Let’s spend our way to sleep as we learn more about the concept of value, why pounds are silver instead of gold, and how rent should be charged in corn rather than coin. Truly priceless boredom!
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Music: "earth 2 earth,” by PC III, licensed under CC BY
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Customer Reviews
Really helps me sleep
This podcast is exactly what I was looking for to help me fall asleep. The only problem is that sometimes I actually find the book interesting and then I stay awake to listen 🤣
Delightfully Sleep-Inducing
I really can’t rate this podcast highly enough! It works wonders on getting my brain to stop whirring at night and I’m often asleep before I get a chance to even remember what the reading was about. Even on the rare occasions it doesn’t put me to sleep straight away, all the the books usually teach me something new about a topic I had no idea about before. Also massively appreciate that there’s no ads whatsoever even for free listeners, which is a very rare thing in podcasts! This podcast is a delight all round.
Great voice for this!
Have enjoyed listening, I would love to hear the dictionary read out with no breaks as if reading a list. The list of items needed at a cheese factory gave me the idea! Loved that part.
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