Snoozecast

Tonight, we’ll read the first half to “The Story of the Herons,” from a collection titled Moonshine and Clover written by Laurence Housman and published in 1922. The second half will air in our next e...

25 Aug 202532min

Tonight, we’ll read the next chapter of “Good Wives” written by Louisa May Alcott titled “My Lord and Lady”. This is also known as the second half of the “Little Women” novel and is considered the 45...

22 Aug 202523min

Tonight, we’ll read  “Pop Corn Recipes” by Mary Hamilton Talbott, published in 1916.  Corn was domesticated about 10,000 years ago, in what is now Mexico. Archaeologists discovered that people have k...

20 Aug 202532min

Tonight, we’ll read the opening fairy tale from The Descent of the Sun: A Cycle of Birth published in 1903. This book was purportedly translated from unidentified Sanskrit manuscripts by F. W. Bain. M...

18 Aug 202535min

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 ...

15 Aug 202530min

Tonight, we’ll read from Elements of Arithmetic, written by Augustus De Morgan and first published in 1846. De Morgan was a pioneering British mathematician and logician, remembered not only for his ...

13 Aug 202531min

Tonight, we’ll read about selecting wood from “Violin Making” written by Walter H. Mayson and published in 1909. The modern violin first appeared in 16th-century Italy, evolving from earlier bowed st...

11 Aug 202534min

Tonight, we’ll continue the 1928 children's book by A. A. Milne “The House at Pooh Corner” with the second-to-last chapter, titled “In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It.” In the las...

8 Aug 202524min