Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight's selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight let's relax with more from a book about a beautiful planet.

Mars and its canals by Percival Lowell.

Director of the Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona,

non-resident professor of astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,

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