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Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing, by Neltje Blanchan, Part 1

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Let's sleep among the wildflowers with this relaxing tour through some lovely native American blooms, plus skunk cabbage and the murderous Jack-in-the-pulpit. Flowers…so much more than pretty!

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

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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.

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Find a comfortable spot.

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Adjust your volume.

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Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go. Tonight we're relaxing with a work suggested by one of your fellow listeners and another

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Patreon supporter Lisa B. We're reading Wild Flowers Worth Knowing, adapted by Aesadon Dickinson, From Nature's Garden by Nelchi Blanchin, first published in 1917.

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Let's begin.

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Preface A still more popular edition of what has proved to the author to be a surprisingly popular book has been prepared by

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the able hand of Mr. Aesa Don Dickinson and is now offered in the hope that many more people will find the wild flowers in

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