Archive for September, 2006

Weekly Picks: Call of the Wild by Jack London

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Read by Gordon Mackenzie, Kristen McQuillin, Jean O’Sullivan, and Miette.
A considerable portion of projects in our catalog here at LibriVox are what we call collaborative works. These are completed works that have been read by multiple people, often one person to each chapter or two. If you’re unfamiliar with these collaborative works, Call of the […]

Librivox Community Podcast 3

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

LC Community Podcast 03
Time: 11:41
Date: September 28, 2006
Host: Jim Mowatt
Location: Cambridge, UK
20-second project recruitment ads
- 20 Years After, Alexandre Dumas, Kristin Luoma/LeMoine
Quiz with software prizes
- Name title of work and reader
New members
Reminder: LV only records published works
Quiz part 2
LibriVox Stats by TBOL3
20-second project recruitment ads
- Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (history of Canada), […]

random note from listener

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

From LC in the UK:
Thanks again for many happy listening hours; you are all fantastic. It is wonderfully like listening at bedtime as a child. And it makes my day swish by. I really like the variety of books, too. It’s a pleasant image, of so many different people browsing through […]

Weekly Picks: The Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Read by William Coon.
This week we present William Coon reading the story of the Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry. In this short story you’ll hear the very funny tale of Major Pendleton Talbot “of Mobile sir” in which William personifies the ante-bellum southern noble so well. William gives us a wonderful reading of a […]

Librivox Community Podcast 2

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

LC Community Podcast 02
Time: 5:43
Date: September 20, 2006
Host: Betsie Bush
Location: Marquette, MI
Newly Completed Projects
- Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain, John Greenman
In Progress Projects - Readers Wanted
- Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser
- The Getting of Wisdom, Henry Handel Richardson, sample from Kristin LeMoine
- One-act play collection, Bill Coon
Recording tip from Cloud Mountain
- How to distinguish character voices
Review of […]

Launching the Librivox Community Podcast

Friday, September 15th, 2006

The Librivox Community Podcast begins today (15th September) with news, views, opinions and stats from around the forums. A local radio station for the Librivox Community.
Paste this link into your aggregator to receive the podcast automatically http://www.umor.co.uk/podcast.xml or log on to archive.org and download the podcasts week by week.

Weekly Picks: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Read by Mark F. Smith
In The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame presents a cast of colorful animal characters having adventures along the banks of the River. Mark Smith reads about the lives of these characters in the style of a bedside storyteller, giving each animal its own voice that clearly reflects the animal’s personality. […]

Weekly Picks: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Read by John Greenman.
Mark Twain’s humor, sometimes blunt and sometimes subtle, presents a particular problem for an audio book. The narrator must simultaneously play both the straight man and the joker while balancing Twain’s characters between realistic and quirky. In The Prince and the Pauper, Twain switches the place of Prince Edward of England with […]

Weekly Picks: Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Helen Selina

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Read by Peter Yearsley.
This week’s focus is on our poetry, and Peter Yearsley’s reading of the Lament of the Irish Emigrant is a great example of a heartfelt reading from our first poetry collection. It is beautifully and subtly read. His interpretation makes you feel the pain and loss of the narrator and is delivered […]