Snoozecast

Tonight, we’ll read a Snoozecast original, “Spandex Jackets (One for Everyone).” Listeners who are fans of Steely Dan may be aware that the title is a reference to Donald Fagen’s 1982 track “I.G.Y. (W...

17 Feb 202524min

Tonight, we’ll read  the next chapter of “Good Wives” written by Louisa May Alcott titled “Lazy Laurence”. This is also known as the second half of the “Little Women” novel and is considered the 39th ...

14 Feb 202546min

Tonight, we’ll read St. Valentine's Day; or, The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott, as part of the Waverly novels.St. Valentine's Day was one of Scott’s later works, published in 1828, and it dra...

12 Feb 202546min

Tonight, we’ll read “The Palace Under the Waves” found in the book “SwissTales” published in 1920. We will also read a story called “The Fairy in the Cuckoo Clock.”The first story features undines, a ...

10 Feb 202532min

Tonight, we shall read the next part to “Persuasion”, the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen, and published in 1817. The story concerns Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman whose family moves in order ...

7 Feb 202532min

The Settlement Cook Book, first published in 1901 by Lizzie Black Kander, is a classic American cookbook aimed at teaching immigrants practical cooking skills and assimilation into American culture. K...

5 Feb 202534min

Tonight, we’ll read the opening to an edited version of John Steinbeck’s “Cup of Gold”, a 1929 historical fiction novel based loosely on the life and death of 17th century privateer Henry Morgan.The p...

3 Feb 202529min

Tonight, we’ll continue the 1928 children's book by A. A. Milne “The house at Pooh Corner”.In the last episode, Winnie-the-Pooh meets Tigger, a bouncy and energetic new arrival in the forest, during a...

31 Jan 202522min