Apr 15, 2024
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pt 03 – Sleepy Stories of Parties and Scandal
This week’s bedtime story for all ages picks up with our protagonist at a party at the house of his cousin’s husband’s mistress, and it is every bit as awkward as you expect.
The story then moves to another party that’s...
Apr 8, 2024
The book of the ancient Greeks by Dorothy Mills – Part 06. Athens and the Greek Colonies
We pick up in this week’s boring episode with Solon establishing the new rules of what we might call democracy in Athens, the resistance to the new way and the founding of the Greek colonies in Asia Minor.
It’s a...
Apr 1, 2024
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
This is a meditative reading from Viginia Woolf’s classic novel at Katharine Hilbery and her mother are going through the process of compiling the letters and information for the biography of their great ancestor.
We learn a lot about the family, but I’m sure I won’t keep...
Mar 25, 2024
Old Glass and How to Collect it by J. Sydney Lewis
We return to the popular non-fiction work, Old Glass and How to Collect it by J. Sydney Lewis which is just the recipe to help you sleep.
We pick up learning about the glass produced in Ireland, the taxes and levies that wiped out the Irish glass industry, then move...
Mar 18, 2024
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
We continue this classic adventure on the frigate Abraham Lincoln as it passes from the Atlantic through the Straits of Magellan and into the Pacific Ocean.
As we meet legendary harpooner Ned Land the ship searches for the mysterious and dangerous ‘Narwal’ only...