Stay ConnectedBoring Books for Bedtime is a weekly, ad-free, AI-free 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 balance 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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By listener request, let's relax and sleep with this guide to the purchasing, care, and training of horses in Ancient Greece. To sum up, hooves are everything, and kindness counts. Good advice!
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Read "On Horsemanship" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1176
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Let's hear from the world's greatest showman how to live a wealthy, happy life. Sleepy spoiler alert: do things you're good at, don't envy others, and spend less than you make. Talk about boring!
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Read "The Art of Money Getting" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8581
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Let's continue with this sleepy theory about the Earth and how fish migrations absolutely, positively prove that it must be hollow. What other explanation could there be? None, says Symmes!
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Read "Symmes Theory of Concentric Spheres" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54329
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Let's finish our tour of the sleepy world of spices, learn about grains of paradise (my favorite medieval spice), and reveal the connection between saffron and…crocodiles? Sure, why not.
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Read "Spices, Their Histories" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60192
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Let's relax and sleep with more about apple history, creating hybrids, and the validity of Van Mons' theories of propagation. Yeah, I don't know either, but I guess he was big in Belgium.
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Read "American Pomology: Apples" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37596
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Let's relax with a subject near and dear to your reader's heart—cats! Drift off to the intelligence of felines, the first cat show, and drama at the Cat Club. Scandalous!
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Read "Our Cats & All About Them" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35450
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Let's return to Aristotle's classic on the purpose of life. What's it all for, anyway? No real answers here tonight, alas, but at least he can help us sleep through the confusion.
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Read "The Ethics of Aristotle" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8438
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Let's return to the flower-filled fields of sleep and learn about insect-charming orchids, blistering buttercups, and pinks of the killing kind. Nature is a cruel mistress!
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Read "Wild Flowers Worth Knowing" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8866
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In more from this sleepy history, we take a tour of the glories of Greece and Persia, the brief blaze of Alexander, and the intellectual legacy of the Golden Age. Dreamy!
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Read "A Short History of the World" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35461
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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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