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Will a party help you sleep? In Pride & Prejudice it will!

Episode 222

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A party isn’t normally the recipe for a good night’s sleep. But a Pride and Prejudice party with all the r…

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Bore yourself to sleep with ruminations on Justice in The Republic

Episode 217

The Republic by Plato

This is a very boring one, so I feel safe guaranteeing you will be asleep before getting far as Plato present Socrates …

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Birds building their nests is your recipe to sleep!

Episode 216

Birds and their nests by Mary Howitt

A detailed study of the methods of birds building their nests. Fall asleep while listening to the method…

3 years, 1 month ago

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The Great Gatsby will help you sleep!

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is an all-time classic high school reader and has seen multiple movie adaptations. S…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Sleepy Stories of the Ancient Olympics to Help You Sleep

Sleepy Stories of the Ancient Olympics to Help You Sleep

The book of the ancient Greeks by Dorothy Mills

Learn about the ancient rituals of…

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Night Or Day It’s Time for Virginia Woolf To Help You Sleep

Episode 213

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s snappy dialogue and deep insights make this an interesting read, but I won’t keep you awake …

3 years, 1 month ago

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Old Glass and How To Collect it – A Guide to a Boring Hobby To help you Sleep

Episode 211

Old Glass and How to Collect it by J. Sydney Lewis

Learn English history through the medium of the glass produced during different events. Le…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Wuthering Heights – A Bedtime Story for All Ages

Episode 211

Things get rough in this reading of Wuthering Heights. To the point that I left out a significant chunk of domestic violence so as to not distu…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Fall Asleep Listening to French Financial Shenanigans

Episode 210

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay

We pick up with the financial resurrection of Regency period France, …

3 years, 2 months ago

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Time to Sleep In the Secret Garden

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mary meets the source of the mysterious crying she’s heard. To find that the master of the house…

3 years, 2 months ago

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