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Elizabby
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EN [abandoned] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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The Blue Castle by Lucy Maude Montgomery (*1874 - † 1942)
A stand-alone novel by the author of "Anne of Green Gables", LM Montgomery weaves her romantic magic once again in this story of Valancy Stirling. One morning she receives news from her doctor that she is going to die soon. This changes how she sees herself, her life and other people. She decides she has had enough of "behaving properly" and scandalises her family with her subsequent "crazy adventures", one of which is to find out the identity of the mysterious "John Foster" the author of her favourite books....
(Summary by Beth Thomas)
Text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200951h.html (please only read from this text!)

Prooflistener: fiddlesticks

How to claim a chapter?
Choose a chapter that has no reader assigned yet. Click on POSTREPLY at the bottom of this page to answer to this topic.

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( your license: CC BY-NC ... suggestions here)
Intro, Outro and Disclaimer for CC0:
At the beginning of each file please say:
[Chapter number] of The Blue Castle by Lucy Maude Montgomery. This Legamus recording may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes, complete and unchanged - including this intro. Read by Beth Thomas. [Chapter title]

At the end of each section please say:
End of [Chapter number]

At the end of the project please say additionally:
"End of The Blue Castle by Lucy Maude Montgomery. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Legamus.eu"

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Title: ## - [Section title]
Artist: Lucy Maude Montgomery
Album: The Blue Castle
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Track Number: Section Number (if sections are numbered from 1, section +1, if sections are numbered from 0)

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Wiki author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery
Wiki translator:
Wiki book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Castle
published: 1926 / [language: English]
category: Romance / Tags: Anne of Green Gables, Canada, romance
username: Beth Thomas / no homepage
Section: 45 / preface: 0 / License: CC BY-NC
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Re: EN [SOLO] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery

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Welcome to Legamus, Elizabby! :D
Sounds great. You want to do this as your first Solo here?
Do you have a DPL in mind?
I can be your MC, if you want.
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Elizabby
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Re: EN [SOLO] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery

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I don't have a DPL, no. How does that work here? Do I need to put the ~ mark in the title, same as at Librivox?

Yes, it will be my first solo! I've done mostly dramatic works at Librivox, but I don't see enough people for that to work well here - although I'll think about it. The final Sherlock Holmes collection is PD here but not at Librivox, and I've done the others so maybe... ;)
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Don't worry! We stay here for a few days, see if a DPL comes around. If not, I'll step in in the meantime. You don't have to adjust the title, we are less formal and somewhat more improvisating here.
Sherlock Holmes sounds also great.
But lets start with this first, 45 sections is pretty big, so lets do it first.
Drama work might be a bit difficult here, but we haven't tried yet. Who knows. :D

I start creating the MW now.

Edit: MW is up and running. PW via PM 8-)
you can start anytime now.
CU
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Re: ~EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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Hey Beth! I'm here too! :)
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Re: ~EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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I love this book and have been thinking about reading it again for quite a while, so I'd love to DPL!
The world is full of evil, and lies, and pain, and death, you can’t hide from it; you can only face it.
The question is, when you do,
how do you respond? Who do you become?


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Re: ~EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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fiddlesticks wrote:I love this book and have been thinking about reading it again for quite a while, so I'd love to DPL!
Yay! Looking forward to working with you again! <realizes the smilies are different here> :mrgreen:
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Great, fiddlesticks, PW for MW via PM
Thanks!

Edit: we moved to "readers found"
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Re: EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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Re Drama projects, http://legamus.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=677 "Shall We Join The Ladies?" is the first and only one yet, slowly approaching completion! Even though it's moving slowly, I consider it a successful try :D
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Re: EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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crowwings wrote:Great, fiddlesticks, PW for MW via PM
Thanks!

Edit: we moved to "readers found"
Got it, thanks! :D
The world is full of evil, and lies, and pain, and death, you can’t hide from it; you can only face it.
The question is, when you do,
how do you respond? Who do you become?


-Phil Coulson
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Re: EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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OK, straight after launching this I have come down with a terrible cold. (It's winter here in Australia and has been snowing! :shock: ) Anyway, if I run true to form I won't be in a condition to record for about 2-3 weeks. I have a very poor immune system and take a long time to recover from having a very husky voice! :?
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Re: EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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Oh no! I hope you are feeling better soon :( I am the same way when I get sick, it takes a long time to get better. At least there is no rush to get this complete!
The world is full of evil, and lies, and pain, and death, you can’t hide from it; you can only face it.
The question is, when you do,
how do you respond? Who do you become?


-Phil Coulson
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Re: EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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fiddlesticks wrote:I am the same way when I get sick, it takes a long time to get better
I'm the same way, too! Get better soon, Beth!
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There is absolute no rush. Take your time and get better soon! :)
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Re: EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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Hi, I am going to have to remove myself asDPL due to life right now, I am sorry to have to do it, I was so looking forward to this book!
The world is full of evil, and lies, and pain, and death, you can’t hide from it; you can only face it.
The question is, when you do,
how do you respond? Who do you become?


-Phil Coulson
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Re: EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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I think I'm going to have to delete this project. :( My circumstances have changed too. :(
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Re: EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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Oh, that is too bad ... shall we move this to abandoned projects instead of deleting it?
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Sure, we can hang onto it. I might be able to come back to it in the future - it's just that I've agreed to narrate a 60 chapter book for LV and that's all my recording time committed in one swoop!
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Re: EN [solo] The Blue Castle, LM Montgomery - crow

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Great. Take your time :D
And good luck with the LV project!
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