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Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing, by Neltje Blanchan, Part 3

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy

Sleepless, Rest, Insomnia, Books, Reading, Asmr, Sleep, Health & Fitness, Stress, Meditation, Bedtime, Relaxation, Mental Health, Sleepaid

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Let's return to the flower-filled fields of sleep and learn about insect-charming orchids, blistering buttercups, and pinks of the killing kind. Nature is a cruel mistress!

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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.

1:30.0

Adjust your volume.

1:34.0

Take a nice deep breath in.

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Let it out slowly. And off we go.

1:47.0

Tonight, let's return to a book about some wonders of nature and relax with more from wild flowers worth

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knowing by Nelchi Blanchin, adapted by Aza Don Dickinson, from Nature's Garden by Nelchy Blunken.

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First published in 1917.

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Let's pick up right where we left off in the middle of learning about the Orcus family.

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