For our 200th episode, let's get cozy and relax with advice on planning the perfect cottage. Which apparently includes a library, billiard room, and nursery. Sleepy simplicity!

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Let's return to a sleepy favorite and relax with Mrs. Beeton's thoughts on a cook's duties, French vocabulary, and asparagus. Also, we learn to make Bread Soup. Yay?

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Read "The Book of Household Management" here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10136

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Let's celebrate the JWST with more from one of my favorite sleepy books. We hear about Jupiter's moons, dissect Saturn's rings, and consider whether the Moon could harbor life. Dreamy!

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Let's continue with our revolutionary relaxation courtesy of Thomas Paine, who has even more thoughts on breaking up with Britain and replacement systems for the republic. Yawn!

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Let's relax and sleep with this treatise on human rights and the failure of monarchical systems to reflect or ensure them. Plus, a lot of chatter that ties kings to…original sin? Whew!

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Let's travel the sands of sleep once again with Herodotus, and learn about flying serpents, fish migration, and the third-cheapest way to embalm your loved ones. It's balmy bookishness for your weary mind.

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Read "An Account of Egypt" at Project Gutenberg:

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This week let's relax with information about a revolution in visual entertainment and education. We learn about the persistence of vision and some history that led us to what we today call "movies."

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Read "Moving Pictures" at Project Gutenberg:

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This week, while your reader tussles with a certain virus, let's revisit a perfectly sleepy combo of ponderous Victorian introduction and ancient Greek philosophy, freshly remastered for your relaxation pleasure.

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Read "The Politics" at Project Gutenberg:

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This week, while your reader is laid up with a certain virus, let's revisit one of my favorite sleepy science reads. Enjoy this remastered intro to a brand new branch of study (in 1899), bacteriology!

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Read "Bacteria" at Project Gutenberg:

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Let's sail to sleep with more from this lovely work about the seas. This time, we learn the rigging of a schooner, praise the prowess of Pacific Islanders, and head to Iceland with Vikings.

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Read "The Book of the Ocean" at Project Gutenberg:

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