Sleep Story 266 – Confessions of a Book-lover
Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults
Teddy
4.5 • 547 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Tonight’s reading comes from, Confessions of a Book-lover. Published in 1913 and written by E. Walter Walters, this story explores ones love for books. My name is Teddy and I aim to help people everywhere get a good night’s rest. Sleep is so important and my mission is to help you get the rest you need. The podcast is designed to play in the background while you slowly fall asleep. Bore You to Sleep is a sleep podcast that features calming narration and boring bedtime stories to help you fall asleep soundly.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep. |
| 0:15.7 | I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is |
| 0:23.3 | hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep. Confessions of a book lover by E. Walter Walters. |
| 0:36.1 | Introduction by Coulson, Kernan. |
| 0:41.1 | Part of the present volume appeared in great thoughts, yet here am I, whose name is associated, |
| 0:50.5 | if at all, in the memory of readers with little thoughts, and with booklets impudent in the |
| 0:59.0 | slenderness of their matter, presumptuously standing forth to bow the public into the writer's |
| 1:06.5 | presence, and essaying to introduce the one to the other. |
| 1:12.6 | The necessary explanation shall be brief. |
| 1:17.1 | I must have been a young man, and Mr. E. Walter Walters a boy, when he and I last met. |
| 1:26.9 | Indeed, I am not sure that I altogether remember him, |
| 1:32.2 | but his father, who bore an honoured name, I well remember. |
| 1:39.0 | The Reverend W.D. Walters, and my own dear and honoured father, were personal friends. |
| 1:48.7 | And when the former's son sent me a manuscript of a book, with a request that I should write an |
| 1:56.6 | introduction, how could I do otherwise than a seed, and express myself honoured by the invitation? |
| 2:06.5 | That I share all Mr. Walter's wholehearted bookish enthusiasm, I may not pretend, for as R. L. Stevenson says, |
| 2:22.2 | in an apology for idlers, books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. So long, however, |
| 2:31.3 | as the reading of it be not allowed to deprive either man or woman of drinking |
| 2:37.7 | deep at the wells of life there are few greater joys for young or old than are to be |
| 2:45.5 | found within the covers of a noble book and And to the enthusiastic book lover, |
| 2:53.6 | Mr. Walters' volume should prove treasure trove indeed. |
| 2:59.6 | He drags, to use a phrase of Stevenson's, with a wide net. |
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