• 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
  • Woodworking for Beginners, by Charles G. Wheeler, Part 3
    Dec 2 2024

    Let’s saw our way to sleep with more from this helpful guide for the novice woodworker. This time, we build our own work bench, improvise a vise, and discover that “measure twice, cut once” is always good advice.

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    54 mins
  • Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply, by Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Part 2
    Nov 25 2024

    Let’s relax with more from this wonderful guide to studying art in Europe. This time, where to shop in London, the best boarding houses, and then we’re off to Paris with some genteel commentary about being a woman in a man’s artsy world. Take up your brushes, ladies!

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    51 mins
  • The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged, by Nicholas Culpeper, Part 1
    Nov 18 2024

    Let’s, uh, improve our health with this compendium of questionable herbal advice from 1650. But first, the kind of sleep-inducing, self-congratulatory introduction in which only a 17th-century apothecary can excel. Delightful!

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    55 mins
  • A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 8
    Nov 11 2024

    Let’s hop in our sleepy wayback machine and relax with more from this remarkable little history of everything. This time, the Roman Empire, Hannibal, and the rise of the emperors. Quiescamus!

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    46 mins
  • The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, Part 1
    Nov 4 2024

    Let’s journey to sleep with Henry David Thoreau as he explores the back of beyond in Maine, ponders the fate of forests, visits some barely-there towns, and…gets accosted by politicians? Talk about timing!

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    52 mins