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

I hope tonight 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.

This week's relaxation comes to us by listener recommendation.

Let's Relax With Travels with a Donkey in the Sevene

by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1879.

Let's begin.

My dear Sidney Colvin, the journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable

and fortunate for me.

After an uncouth beginning I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all

travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world,

all two travelers with a donkey.

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