Snoozecast

Tonight, we’ll read the opening to the short story “At the Bay” written by Katherine Mansfield, published in 1922. Mansfield was a New Zealand writer, widely considered one of the most influential an...

6 Aug 202532min

Tonight, we’ll read poems by John Keats starting with one titled “Sleep and Poetry.” John Keats’ work is a cornerstone of English Romantic poetry, rich with symbolism, sensual detail, and allusions t...

4 Aug 202534min

Tonight, we’ll read the 31st chapter of “Anne of Green Gables”, the classic 1908 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This chapter is titled “Where the Brook and River Meet” In the last episode, The Queen’...

1 Aug 202520min

Tonight, we’ll read from Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries, written by Édouard Schuré and published in English in 1909. This work is part of Schuré’s larger cycle The Great Initiates, which presen...

30 Jul 202516min

Tonight, we’ll read about the musical genius Franz Liszt as a child piano prodigy from the book “Life of Liszt” written by Ludwig Nohl. Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Roma...

28 Jul 202531min

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 44t...

25 Jul 202517min

Tonight, we’ll read the fairy tale “Felicia and the Pot of Pinks” written by Madame d’Aulnoy and found in the Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang. The “pot of pinks” in this story refers to a type ...

24 Jul 202533min

Tonight, we’ll read a story from “Just So Stories” by British author Rudyard Kipling published in 1902 titled “The Crab That Played with the Sea”. The book is a collection of origin stories. Kipling ...

21 Jul 202529min