You may not know this, but in addition to being a fine reader, Kara is the force behind the cataloging and orgainization of all the books at LibriVox: she’s the one who makes the catalog pages look pretty and who uploads our files to archive.org (not an easy task, I assure you).

In any case, here she is bringing Psmith, Mike and the rest to life in a stellar reading of:

Psmith in the City – Chapters 7-9
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapters 7-9
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Kara
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Psmith in the City LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Friday): Chapters 10-12, read by LibriVox scripter and technology backbone-maker: Chris G.

Please send us an email (librivox AT yahoo D0T ca) to let us know what you think of our recordings, and note, LibriVox is always looking for NEW VOLUNTEERS…

Psmith continues his adventures … read by our favourite audio gourmet, podchef (by the way check out his freely-available & beautiful pdf cookbook – I made the chili jam & it was really really good):

Psmith in the City – Chapters 4-6
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapters 4-6
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Neal the Podchef
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Psmith in the Cithy LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Thursday): Chapters 7-9, read by our catalogger extraordinaire kara.

Please send us an email (librivox AT yahoo D0T ca) to let us know what you think of our recordings, and note, LibriVox is always looking for NEW VOLUNTEERS…

This week, it’s P.G. Wodehouse. From wikipedia:

Described by Sean O’Casey as “English literature’s performing flea”, Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.

Best-known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented lyricist who worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song “Bill” in Show Boat.

I didn’t know he was a lyricist!… anyway, “Psmith in the City” was published in 1910, and remains a comic classic. Here’s Kristen with Chapters 1-3.

Psmith in the City – Chapters 1-3
mp3 audio file: Psmith in the City, Chapters 1-3
Written by: P. G. Wodehouse
Read by: Kristen McQuillin
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Call of the Wild LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Next up (Wednesday): Chapters 4-6, read by the podchef.

Please send us an email (librivox AT yahoo D0T ca) to let us know what you think of our recordings, and note, LibriVox is always looking for NEW VOLUNTEERS…

We’ve finished our podcast of “Call of the Wild,” and will be starting “Psmith in the City” tomorrow.

And note that we’ll be moving to a podcast every day of the week, Monday-Friday (mostly for longer works), and Sundays will be a random pick of a reader from the weekly poem project.

But today we’ll take another poetry break, Chris reads … Caw-CAW-CAWWW!: Edgar Allan Poe’s Raven.

Here it is:
mp3 audio file: The Raven
Written by: Edgar Allan Poe
Read by: Chris Goringe
Bit rate: 64 kbps
File size: 4.6 MB
The Raven, LibriVox catalog page (for Ogg, 128kbps & a zip of the entire book)

Tomorrow, some Wodehouse: Psmith in the City!