Thread 24662835

I'm going through some stressful and very busy times and I'd like to read something, but I've only hoarded classics and non-fiction in the last few years.
What books do you recommend for reading before sleep?

Russian hermit saints' lives are cozy.

>>24662835 (OP)
There was a great thread on comfy lit a few years ago, the list I saved from it is:

Montaigne - Essays
Eckermann - Conversations with Goethe
Leopardi - Zibaldone
Emerson - Essays, English Traits
La Fontaine - Fables
Plutarch - Moralia
Seneca - Essays
Robert Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy
Sei Shōnagon - The Pillow Book
William Hazlitt - Table-talk
Coleridge - Table-talk, The Friend
Aulus Gellius - Attic Nights
Athenaeus - Deipnosophists
La Rochefoucauld - Maxims
Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle
Yoshida Kenko - Essays in Idleness
Isaac Disraeli - The Curiosities of Literature
Pascal - Pensees
Landor - Imaginary Conversations
Charles Lamb - Essays of Elia
Joseph Addison, Richard Steele - The Spectator

That's probably an overwhelming list, but I can personally attest to Montaigne and Emerson being easy-going and edifying to read before bed.

>>24663141
Any particular edition? Can't seem to find anything except Optina elders.

>>24663158
Thanks Anon, I will save this list.

>>24662835 (OP)
How the fuck can you sleep knowing that you're an idol worshipper?

>>24663650
I went to a protestant "church" one time for field research. When people got up to sing every other seat had a little sweat-shit stain on it. The obesity rate was about 80%.

>>24662835 (OP)
Unironically psalms especially 22 (septuagint numbering)

>>24663650
Lol you fagots literally reduced Christianity to a book club

>>24663679
To be fair american men think it's gay to wash their butts in the shower and some even refuse to wipe themselves after they shit.

>>24663679
>>24664058
I'm not American

>>24662835 (OP)
well, I would say the (73-book) Bible, but you already got it, bro-san. idk I like reading old timey 19th century romantic novels. nothing too steamy though; that would be scandalous! also compline. prayer is the coziest way to fall asleep. all fathers love when their children fall asleep in their arms.
>>24663650
i cannot tell if this is in earnest and therefore worth responding to. what is your understanding?

Picrel is really good.

>>24664235
>i cannot tell if this is in earnest and therefore worth responding to. what is your understanding?
Bible says do not make graven images or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above