Done with my Librivox audiobook!

[luzula]

I've finished with recording Volume 2 of Peter Kropotkin's autobiography "Memoirs of a Revolutionist"! Woohoo! You can download it here if you're interested. There's more info about the book and a link to Volume 1 here, and also some reflections about recording for Librivox vs recording podfic.

I am looking forward to getting back to podfic, but I do feel accomplished at having recorded a whole book, too--both volumes together are about 16 and a half hours, so it's by far the longest thing I've ever recorded. \o/

Comments

[petra]

Wow, this is amazing! Go you!

[luzula]

Thank you! I do feel pretty happy about finishing it, and I have a long list of fic I'm planning to record.

[jesse_the_k]

Very impressive...and I'm picturing a young revolutionary in a warm climate in 12 years. She's downloading the greats to start preparing her manifesto. The birds are tweeting* and the breezes are sticky but shazzam! there's you on her OLPC.

*Oh noes! How can a make a written bird song without invoking A Certain Social Medium?

[luzula]

Hee, that sounds awesome.

You know, I was actually rereading Le Guin's The Dispossessed (wow, it is so very good!) while recording this, and I was struck by some of the similarities. I am betting that this was one of Le Guin's sources when writing that book.

[jesse_the_k]

Oh! The Dispossessed is such a great book. I've read it three times now (when it came out, when I was in a communist party and understanding that we didn't understand humans very well, and last year for my feminist SF book-group.) It withstands multiple readings; my last one I ended up slapping sticky notes at least once every fifth page.

Inspiring and read by you? I'll add it to me "to listen" list.

[luzula]

I read The Dispossessed sometime in my teens, and I don't think I liked it as much as some of Le Guin's other books then. Maybe I was too young. But I reread it recently because, well, it's a long chain: I reread the short story The Day Before the Revolution (about Odo when she was old) last summer, and was inspired to ask for fic about Odo for Yuletide. And then I reread The Dispossessed in case I actually got fic for it. And wow, it was so, so gripping. I think I teared up more times than I ever have while reading a book. And not at things that were sad in the sense that watching a puppy die will make you cry--just at things that were moving even though they weren't actually sad. Apparently solidarity makes me cry. And I'd forgotten it was such a moving love story, too.

By the way, you're not coming to Bitching Party, are you? I would love to meet you!

[jesse_the_k]

Just seeing the title of "The Day Before the Revolution" makes me cry. And shouldn't Solidarity make us cry? It's a systemic expression of love, and that everyone is worth loving! The things I appreciate so much about UKL's writing is she recognizes that sweet surge, and she also recognizes the hard work required next year, and the decade after that. Have you read her four connected novellas, Four Ways to Forgiveness? It's about war and after, and very much about USA civil war and slavery, and gender and .... and ...

Do you read her in translation? Do translators serve her well?

I'm kinda a UKL fangirl, as you've probaby figured out by now.

Hmmm, Pacificon. Checked out the web site. There's an awesome group of folks in attendance! It would be wonderful to meet you F2F. Hmmmmm. /puts on thinking hat

[luzula]

And shouldn't Solidarity make us cry? It's a systemic expression of love, and that everyone is worth loving!

Yeah, that's true. ♥

Yes, I've read Four Ways To Forgiveness, and remember being moved by it, but it must've been more than ten years ago. It's on my to-reread list. I'm glad she's written so much! It means there's always something to reread. *g*

I read her in translation at first (I remember that my first reading of The Dispossessed was in Swedish, and I also read the Earthsea books in Swedish when I was young) but I've been reading her in English for a long time. From what I remember, the translations were fine, but since I enjoy her prose so much, I prefer to read it in the original.

And do think about it! : )