The 1942 Sears Roebuck and Co. Christmas Book, Part 1
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 dep...
23 Des 202459min
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 3
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 paradoxi...
16 Des 202452min
Frye's Practical Candy Maker, by G.V. Frye - Part 3, The Conclusion
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! ...
9 Des 202458min
Woodworking for Beginners, by Charles G. Wheeler, Part 3
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 ...
2 Des 202453min
Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply, by Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Part 2
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 ...
25 Nov 202450min
The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged, by Nicholas Culpeper, Part 1
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 apothec...
18 Nov 202455min
A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 8
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! Help u...
11 Nov 202446min
The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, Part 1
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 ti...
4 Nov 202451min
