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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
The Federalist Papers -- paper #62
Federalist #62: The Senate, by James Madison
(in case you're new and/or lost)
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, chapter 7
Chapter 7: The Cloud Over the Little Brown House
Poor Polly.
(if you're lost, here's an explanation)
Silas Marner, chapter 7
I've not been 'librivoxing' as much as I had been, what with the fair and preparing for school and things.
If you've no idea what this is all about, try going here.)
Thursday, August 31, 2006
The Federalist Papers -- paper 46
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Silas Marner, chapter 6
(what on earth is going on here?)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, chapters 5 and 6
I had to replace my microphone (because I leapt up to stop a catfight outdoors with my headset on... because I am who I am) and I'm still not totally happy with the new one.
(what on earth is going on here?)
Monday, August 28, 2006
Silas Marner, chapter 5
Finished this a couple of nights ago.
Silas Marner by George Eliot -- chapter 5
(what on earth is going on here?)
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Poems
I've recorded one poem for Librivox and C has recorded two. (see the previous post if you've no idea what's going on here.)
Sonnet 2 ("Time does not bring relief; you all have lied") by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- recorded by me
"Windy Nights" by Robert Louis Stevenson -- recorded by C
"Bed in Summer" by Robert Louis Stevenson -- recorded by C
The Federalist Papers -- papers 41-45
To repeat salient points about what's going on here:
- I'm serializing some of my Librivox recordings here in my blog.
- I generally record two or three chapters from each book in a week.
- I won't be hurt if you never download these but I thought I'd put them here in case anyone felt like following along.
- For bandwidth reasons, please only download each file once (right-click and save, or whatever it is that you superior Mac people do to download a file from a link). And if I do end up running out of available bandwidth I'll simply stop posting these.
- Also please tell me if you hear mistakes/repeats as you go. If you know the minutes/seconds at which the mistake occurs, so much the better.
The Federalist Papers started out not as a book but as a series of editorials, if you will, aimed at convincing the people of the newborn United States to ratify the Constitution. They were written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, and were compiled into a book almost as soon as the series ended. They're an important piece of U.S. History and constitutional law. I volunteered to read papers 41 through 46, which were written by Madison and which mostly deal with the quantity of powers granted to the federal government by the new Constitution. I think when I've finished these (I only have 46 left to do, and if my mild sore throat clears up I'd like to record it tonight) I will volunteer for another section.
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, chapters 1-4
To repeat salient points about what's going on here:
- I'm serializing some of my Librivox recordings here in my blog.
- I generally record two or three chapters from each book in a week.
- I won't be hurt if you never download these but I thought I'd put them here in case anyone felt like following along.
- For bandwidth reasons, please only download each file once (right-click and save, or whatever it is that you superior Mac people do to download a file from a link). And if I do end up running out of available bandwidth I'll simply stop posting these.
- Also please tell me if you hear mistakes/repeats as you go. If you know the minutes/seconds at which the mistake occurs, so much the better.
OK, on to the story. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew is a slightly treacly but overall nice children's story about a widowed mother and her five children, cheerfully and optimistically getting by on a shoestring in spite of sundry obstacles in the vicinity of the 1870's. It was published in 1881 by Margaret Sidney.
Chapter 2: Making Happiness for Mamsie
Chapter 4: Trouble for the Little Brown House
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