Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

On tonight's episode of The Bore You to Sleep podcast, we're going to read the book titled

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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And as always, I hope they make you feel a little bit sleepy.

In the meantime, kick back, relax, and let's get into the book.

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral holes for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house,

and reach the height of romantic felicity, but that would be asking too much of fate.

Still, I would proudly declare that there is something queer about it.

Else, why should it be so cheaply let?

And why have they stood so long untenanted?

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

John is practical in the extreme.

He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition,

and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.

John is a physician and perhaps

I would not say it to a living soul. Of course

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