Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Let's relax with another sleepy stroll across the sands of time to ancient Egypt. This time, we finish our overview of tombs and learn about Egyptian painting conventions, including cat-based satire. ...

13 Jan 202552min

Let's kick off a new year of sleep with more from this appreciative guide to the magical cat. This time, shorthaired tortoiseshells and tabbies, plus a touch of my favorite—word etymologies! Your brai...

6 Jan 202550min

While your reader recovers from a Christmas cough, let's rewind back to this relaxing guide to the art and craft of embroidery from two years ago. It's the perfect way to stitch up the year with sweet...

30 Des 202452min

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

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

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

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

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