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 by listener request let's relax with a work of

non-fiction by an author far better known for his fiction works.

We're reading The Book of the Hamburgs, a brief treatise upon the mating, rearing, and management

of the different varieties of hamburgs.

By L. Frank Baum,

first published in 1886 by H.H. Stoddard, Hartford, Connecticut.

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