Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy

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- Let's sow a crop of sleep with more from this marvelous guide to running away to the country and remaking one's life on a farm. This time, canning makes tomatoes popular, railroads and science revolutionize agriculture, and our author extols the practical value of beautiful songbirds to the farmer. Facts!
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Read Ten Acres Enough" by Edmund Morris at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48753
Music: "Changing Colours" by Lee Rosevere, licensed with permission, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com. The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, by L.W. de Laurence, Part 1
2026-10-26 | 58 mins.Let's celebrate the spooky season (and our 8th anniversary!) and see what the cards say about sleep as we work our way through the symbolism of the Tarot. This time, the greater arcana, the many paths of the hermit, and a bit of sniping at other authors. But first, we divine our way through the veil of a most inscrutable preface. Mystifying indeed!
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Read "The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination" by L.W. de Laurence at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43548
Music: "Calling to Other Worlds" by Lee Rosevere, licensed with permission, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com.- Let's sketch our way to sleep with more from this guide to drawing and painting. This time, more on the science side, including vision, the intrinsic link between touch and sight, why kids draw the way they draw, and the important of art education for everyone. Concur!
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Read "The Practice & Science of Drawing" by Harold Speed at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14264
Music: "Cosmic Tingles" by Lee Rosevere, licensed with permission, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com. The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged, by Nicholas Culpeper, Part 2
2026-10-12 | 50 mins.Let's relax with more from this rather questionable 17th century guide to medicinal plants. This time, herbs to rid yourself of fleas, cure gout, eliminate the French pox, and treat pretty much every ailment you can think of through the power of the purgative. Do not recommend!
VERY BIG NOTE: As always with these old "medicinal" works, do not follow or rely on anything you hear in this podcast. Many of these herbs are, in fact, very bad for you. This reading is merely to bore and/or amuse, not inform.
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Read "The Complete Herbal" by Nicholas Culpeper at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49513
Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime" by Lee Rosevere, licensed with permission, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com.- Let's sit up straight and get sleepy with more from this essential guide to respectful, refined living. This time, treating servants humanely, announcing names, and hosting all manner of tea parties, including what can and can't be served before tipping into reception territory. The line between fun and formal is ever so fine!
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Read "Etiquette" by Emily Post at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14314
Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime" by Lee Rosevere, licensed with permission, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com.
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About Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Boring 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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