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OK, Boon, since you made a point of saying that...
I will expect something by next week, ok?
I took a break from recording,as it seemed that half the readings on the first page were mine, but I will probably record some more later this week, if I have time. I just started a new job, part-time, and it is really taking off so I am a little short on time these days.
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I listened to the first part of AK's Pooh's story yesterday night, and I totally loved it ! You read wonderfuly, AK. I'm going to enjoy listening to the following deeply ! I love Tom Davidson's Small gods too, but some times he reads a little too fast for me to understand everything at first listening - I guess it'll help me to better my listened comprehension. I also listened to KQ and Ketchup Prince Consort, it's great. Special mention for Annie : I listened to the beginning of the French version of Fraternity, and your French is nearly perfect ! I didn't know the text, and it's definitively a great choice. Very easy to understand, and yet very profound. My projects so far : Record the Little Prince in French, and go on Harry Potter. I love being part of this club !
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I'm glad you like Pooh. The goodness is all in the story, though. I apologize for my voice but like Hobbes said it's the only one I have available to me at the moment. Grisha keeps requesting more Pooh so I will keep recording them.
I'm having so much fun listening to everything everyone's sent! It's great to have a bedtime story to listen to nearly every night! I finally got around to all the poetry ones, Kwea and ketchupqueen, and they are great. Reading poetry is much harder than prose, isn't it? I don't think I can manage it.
I, too, am having to listen to Tom twice to get all that's going on. I think it's probably because the book itself is quite clever and subtle. I've never read Terry Pratchett, but from this clip he seems extremely funny and good.
Anna, I'm really excited about you reading more of Harry Potter, and Le Petit Prince too. Your audience eagerly awaits them (at least this portion of it does).
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quote: Reading poetry is much harder than prose, isn't it? I don't think I can manage it.
No, you can do it! There's a simple rule: take care of the sense, and the meter will take care of itself. The point is not to emphasise the meter of the poem; that's the poet's job. The point is to read the words of the poem, with feeling, like you would prose, and the meter and rhyme will come out despite you, but the emphasis will be in the right places. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Test to see how the yahoo database will copy and paste to hatrack. It seems like a barrier to require someone to join the group if they only want to peruse the available stuff. So I thought it might be cool to copy the listing here from time to time, depending on how difficult that might turn out to be.
Brill, Rob A Deadly Dream of Dancing Kwea brilljr AT hotmail DOT com 0:36 570 kB
Brill, Rob If Friendship Turns to Love Kwea brilljr AT hotmail DOT com 0:46 728 kB
Brill, Rob M'Lady Kwea brilljr AT hotmail DOT com 1:03 992 kB
Brill, Rob My Heart Kwea brilljr AT hotmail DOT com 0:48 766 kB
Brill, Rob My Music Kwea brilljr AT hotmail DOT com 0:41 645 kB
Brill, Rob What Does He Have Kwea brilljr AT hotmail DOT com 0:43 686 kB
Carroll, Lewis Jabberwocky (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) ketchupqueen ketchupqueen AT sbcglobal DOT net 1:14 146 kB
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor White Nights - parts 1 - 4 Tatiana annekateard AT bham.rr DOT com 25:01, 31:47, 19:36, 38:00, total 1:54:25 2933, 3726, 2298, 4454 kB
Fleischman, Paul Book Lice ketchupqueen and Ketchup Prince Consort ketchupqueen AT sbcglobal DOT net 1:04 126 kB
Fleischman, Paul Doves of Dodona ketchupqueen and Ketchup Prince Consort ketchupqueen AT sbcglobal DOT net 1:02 123 kB
Kafka, Franz Unhappiness Tatiana annekateard AT bham.rr DOT com 7:47 913 kB
Milne, A.A. In Which Kanga and Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet gets a Bath, from Winnie the Pooh Tatiana annekateard AT bham.rr DOT com 14:42 1725 kB
Milne, A.A. In Which Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing, from The House at Pooh Corner Tatiana annekateard AT bham.rr DOT com 14:08 1658 kB
Milne, A.A. In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It, from The House at Pooh Corner Tatiana annekateard AT bham.rr DOT com 12:32 1470 kB
Milne, A.A. In Which Piglet meets a Heffalump, from Winnie the Pooh Tatiana annekateard AT bham.rr DOT com 12:40 1486 kB
Munsch, Robert N. The Paper Bag Princess ketchupqueen ketchupqueen AT sbcglobal DOT net 3:56 462 kB
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It actually turns out to be pretty easy using notepad. I just copied and pasted each page of the database listing from Yahoo, then did a search and replace on "Edit Delete", (that has 2 spaces between Edit and Delete), and replaced it with the ubb code for "list item" which is an asterisk between square brackets. I copied and pasted this into the Hatrack message window, adding the List Start and List End codes, as well as a list item code for the first item, to finish the job.
Does anyone object to this? Should I disguise the email addresses better to thwart web crawler bots? I could do that fairly easily, in fact! <goes off to do it>. All I did was search and replace <space AT space> for <@> and then again <space DOT space com> for <.com>.
Oops, I messed up Russell's link that way! <fixes> Oooh, and Tom's too! <fixes that as well>.
With that done will this be pleasing to everyone? Please let me know what you guys think. I don't want to overstep. Thanks!
And Hobbes, dear, I thank you very much for posting my songs. Could you move them to the acapella singing thread, though? Thanks. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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I recently joined, though at the moment, I have no way of recording myself, unfortunately. But Anna sent me Harry Potter, and I'm looking forward to listening to it as soon as I once again have a working HD!
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Dragon, if you pick something you really love, then I guarantee I will really love hearing it. Does that help? Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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Grisha's reading of "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein is now available. IM him (aimname unkillableGrisha) to request a copy, or you can email me at annekateard AT bham DOT rr DOT com.
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Does anyone have anything new for me to hear? For my next reading I'm going to do "La Verdadera Historia de los Tres Cerditos." Anna's wonderful Harry Potter has inspired me to also attempt a reading in another language. Hopefully that will be available in a day or two. In the meantime I'm really looking forward to listening to anything new by anyone else. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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If this thread keeps getting bumped to remind me I will read. I'm thinking Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy.
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I'm almost done with chapter two. Only I haven't have much time for that lately, and I apologize.
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Oooh, I can't wait until you're done. I got sidetracked on this whole bird flu business from what's truly important in life, the Reading Aloud Club. I will get La Verdadera Historia out soon!
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Now available: La Verdadera Historia de los Tres Cerditos, Por S. Lobo as read by Tatiana in her very bad Spanish. Running time 9:20, filesize 1094 kB. Email is in profile if anyone is interested in hearing this.
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I've got a new Pooh story available, by request of Grisha. This is the one from "Winnie the Pooh" about them going on an expotition to discover the North Pole.
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Two readings from the Book of Mormon join our library today.
I read from first Nephi chapter 8, in which Nephi tells us of the dream or vision which was granted to his father Lehi of the Tree of Life.
And then I read from third Nephi chapter 17, in which Christ appears to the Nephites after his resurrection, and prays for them and blesses their children.
I've added both to our Yahoo Groups Database. If anyone would like to hear them, please email me for a copy. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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I was thinking about this the other day, and thought I would bump the thread to see if anyone, old or new, still was intereted in doing any readings....
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Kwea, how cool! I've been doing a few readings here and there and sharing them with my friends. Grisha, if you see this, you have a new story in your email.
I'm still interested in hearing anything anyone wants to read. I've enjoyed everything everyone made!
Does anyone know if our yahoo database will go away from inactivity? I should probably try to grab a copy of it if it still exists.
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The database is still there! I did grab an export of it, just in case. But if anyone is interested in doing more readings, or in hearing any of the ones we have already, go to yahoo group jatraqueros and ask Boon for permission to join. It's really fun!
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It was really cool, I am considering options for a new recording now. I am leaning towards some short story collections, I think. Posts: 15082 | Registered: Jul 2001
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I have liked most of what I have heard, so just pick something that you think would sound good. Posts: 15082 | Registered: Jul 2001
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This is the first time I've seen this thread but it sounds awesome, guys! Add me to the number of people who love to read out loud and listen to others as well. My husband, unfortunately, does not. I didn't know that when we were courting. We read out loud the entire Chronicles of Narnia to each other on our dates, instead of going to movies (we're broke - that's what I get for going for a missionary ). Then, about two months after we were married, he says "You know, reading out loud doesn't do anything for me." And he won't do it ever since. Sigh.
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