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    Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Literary Lullaby Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy Updated:5 Comments1 Min Read

    Last night, after getting to bed at a decent hour for the first time in some time (Major Spoilers business three days per week, plus my other junk, although “late” for me is actually “early” for Stephen), I uncharacteristically found myself wide awake at 3:30 a.m.  After failing to convince my brain that it was time for sleep, I took one of the Stephen King collections that live on my bedside table for just such an emergency, and 25 minutes of gross-out terror later (“A Very Tight Place” is that kind of story) and found myself once again drifting towards the REM cycle.  The one trade-off of reading King to get to sleep is the occasional weird dream of playing football with the Great Old Ones or other such frippery, leading us to today’s somnambulent query…

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) has to be careful, as the other three people in the house are grumpy if awakened, asking: What reading material have you found works best as a literary lullaby to put you back to sleep?

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    5 Comments

    1. Malone_hasco on

      I literally never wake up in the middle of night, unless Im sick or something and thats pretty rare. I cant really read while tired either, so my habit is to put some podcast on low volume on my tablet and usually it works in 15 minutes or so.

    2. Robert Hulshof-Schmidt on

      The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. It’s my go-to when I’m sick, tired, frustrated, or just need reading comfort food.

    3. Brenning Dragonbred on

      Just about anything with vampires as long as it is a good and interesting story. I used to read a chapter or two of vampire novels before bed in Jr. High and High School, and the ritual still puts me at ease and helps me relax enough to sleep, as well as helping shape my dreams to something vampire related like dreaming I’m staking or setting fire to the Cullens with help from Buffy and Blade.

    4. Galoopa on

      Reading usually will wake me up more, so I throw on an old MST3K episode, usually one of the Godzilla ones. I’ve seen them so often I can zone right out again.

    5. DamienR on

      Short story collections tend to work, and the benefit of an eReader means I don’t disturb the better half. I’m currently reading some Wodehouse, but not Jeeves, shorts.
      Failing that, there’s always The Three Investigators series.