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.

Anne of Avonlea is a 1909 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.

This book follows the next chapter in life for Anne Shirley, after her time in Green Gables.

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In the meantime, lie back, relax and enjoy the readings.

Chapter 1 An Irate Neighbor relax and enjoy the readings chapter one an irate neighbor a tall slim girl half past sixteen with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called Auburn had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep

of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse

one ripe afternoon in August,

firmly resolved to construe

so many lines of Virgil.

But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scoffing the harvest slopes,

little winds whispering alfishly in the poplars,

and a dancing slender of red poppies out flaming against the dark coppice

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