• Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921, by Lt. Col. CK Howard-Bury, Part 5
    Jan 27 2025

    Let’s climb the slopes of sleep with more from this journey to study the world’s highest mountain. This time, we visit Tingri, climb glaciers, and reach the highest monastery in the world. We’re less than 10 miles from Everest, friends. Dreams of adventure await!

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    50 mins
  • Robert's Rules of Order, by Major Henry Robert, Part 1
    Jan 20 2025

    Let’s relax with one of the most boring reads I’ve ever encountered, a minutely detailed guide to the internal workings of legislative assemblies. Why, one might wonder how anything ever gets done at all. Motion to sleep, seconded!

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    53 mins
  • Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to Antiquities in Egypt, by Gaston Maspero (Part 7)
    Jan 13 2025

    Let’s relax with another sleepy stroll across the sands of time to ancient Egypt. This time, we finish our overview of tombs and learn about Egyptian painting conventions, including cat-based satire. It never gets old! Maspero has a marvelous way of bringing these images to life, and I think you'll love his descriptions.

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    52 mins
  • Our Cats and All About Them, by Harrison Weir (Part 3)
    Jan 6 2025

    Let’s kick off a new year of sleep with more from this appreciative guide to the magical cat. This time, shorthaired tortoiseshells and tabbies, plus a touch of my favorite—word etymologies! Your brain will purr with contented boredom.

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    50 mins
  • Relaxation Rewind! Art in Needlework: Embroidery, by Lewis Day and Mary Buckle, Part 1
    Dec 30 2024

    While your reader recovers from a Christmas cough, let’s rewind back to this relaxing guide to the art and craft of embroidery from two years ago. It’s the perfect way to stitch up the year with sweet dreams. Enjoy!

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

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    52 mins
  • The 1942 Sears Roebuck and Co. Christmas Book, Part 1
    Dec 23 2024

    Let’s take a sleepy browse through this gift guide from the war years. Tasty candies, children’s toys, decorative gourds and gifts for the discriminating housewife, and several grades of fruitcake depending on how much you like the recipient. Sears has what you need!

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    1 hr
  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 3
    Dec 16 2024

    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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    53 mins
  • Frye's Practical Candy Maker, by G.V. Frye - Part 3, The Conclusion
    Dec 9 2024

    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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    58 mins