#6: The Bridal of Triermain, by Sir Walter Scott

My archive.org entry probably says it all. I’m fascinated that Scott managed to combine Regency romance, Arthurian adventure, and medieval lais into one coherent storyline (and meta-storyline). It’s a pretty nifty little poem (’little’ meaning ‘in three cantos and a bunch of prologues and epilogues’), IMHO, and I hope you’ll enjoy it, too.
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Criticize Me!

At this time, I’d like to point out that I do want comments. Most of all, I want some comments on how I read. Am I going too fast or too slow? Is my pitch too high or too low? Can you actually hear me read, or should I crank up the recording volume?
How about [...]

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#5: “The Blue Sequin” by R. Austin Freeman

Today’s story, “The Blue Sequin”, comes to you thanks to Flos Carmeli’s E-Text Announcements.
I have always been very curious to read R. Austin Freeman and meet Dr. Thorndyke. Their names come up again and again among the pioneers of the genre, and Freeman was spoken of favorably by Dorothy L. Sayers. (If pressed, I would [...]

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Carmeli Launch!

Steven Riddle gave this site a very flattering notice over at Flos Carmeli.
*blush*
Aw, shucks, ’tweren’t nothin’….
I should point out, however, that it was Mr. Riddle’s e-text announcement page which pointed me in the direction of some of the things I read as audiobooks this week. So you truly do reap what you sow, sir!

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Huge Fleepin’ Files

I realize that my mp3 files are rather large for something that’s just spoken word. The problem is that archive.org really likes 96Kbps, and doesn’t really want any file that’s less than 64Kbps in their Open Source Audio section.
However, I may have a solution. If you have an archive.org account, you pretty much automatically can [...]

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#4. “Of the Song of Angels” by Walter Hilton

I’ve been promising spiritual audiobooks but not providing them. So here’s a medieval English mystical treatise for you — “Of the Song of Angels” by Master Walter Hilton, monk. I found it on CCEL as part of a republished Elizabethan collection of medieval religious treatises, called The Cell of Self-Knowledge.
As usual with treatises on mystical [...]

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#3: “The Sword of Welleran” by Lord Dunsany

If you’ve never read “The Sword of Welleran”, I think you’re in for a treat. If you already have, you know what you’re in for. Dunsany is beautiful and strange and original and even funny. Many great and many bad writers have copied him, but nobody can write like him, or in [...]

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#2: “Speech on Reconciliation With America” by Edmund Burke

The bonus book for the week asks this question: Did the American Revolution have to happen? Couldn’t England and the Thirteen Colonies have kissed and made up?
In Edmund Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America”, one of history’s greats proposes one of history’s great might-have-beens to Parliament and the hostile British government in 1775. None of [...]

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#1: “Annus Mirabilis” by John Dryden

For England, 1666 was a year of war, plague, and fire. John Dryden was there.
I had never read “Annus Mirabilis” before I helped proofread it last year for Project Gutenberg. I’m not overly excited about England vs. Holland (not that it’s bad), but the second part of the poem — the Great Fire of London [...]

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First Post!

This blog will link to audiobooks I’m creating from books in the public domain and putting up in the Spoken Word category of Open Source Audio at archive.org.
Some books will be secular, some sacred. (In other words, I’ll read what I feel like.) Hopefully all of the books will be enjoyable and food for thought.
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