luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
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/
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
Yay, I'm done with my first Librivox project! It's seven and a half hours long, and you can download it over here (the easiest way is with "zip file of the entire book"). Here's a summary:

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but also about 19th century Russian society and politics. He was born into the nobility and had a military education, but he gradually abandoned the values of his social class and became an anti-authoritarian socialist, opposed to both the rule of the Tsars and to the seizing of power by the authoritarian Bolsheviks. He was also interested in literature, biology, economics and geographical exploration. This first volume of his memoirs covers his childhood, his education, and the time he spent in Siberia.

Thoughts on recording at Librivox as compared to podficcing )
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
Is there anyone who'd like to read a half-written fic for me? I need a bit of feedback to keep me going (but not line-by-line beta reading at this stage). This is a mostly gen fic about Victoria after "Victoria's Secret". Basically, it's about her eventually getting over Fraser and working her way to a life mostly without crime. She ends up as a computer programmer/hacker, although I haven't gotten to that part yet, and I dread it because of the research involved. There will also be Victoria/OFC. Anyway, the fic is 5400 words now, and will likely be fairly long.

Am recording a book for Librivox now: Peter Kropotkin's autobiography "Memoirs of a Revolutionist", which I love. It's quite interesting to read something other than fanfic for a change, and luckily I have a half-Russian neighbor who is helping me with the pronunciation. Although I have to say that switching between English r:s, Russian r:s (which are like Swedish r:s) and French r:s is annoying. I can do each of them individually with no problem, but switching around makes me stumble.
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
I listen to a lot of audiobooks from Librivox, which is a site where you can download free audiobooks of works in the public domain, recorded by volunteers. There are tons of audiobooks of varying quality over there, though, so I thought I'd do some recs. In fact, I often like these amateur recordings (along with podfics, of course) just as well or even better than professional audiobooks.

Recs )
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