COMPLETE: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - AF/ge

kri · Post by **kri** » April 9th, 2006, 11:59 am

acrobatty wrote:Gesine,
My name is Cynthia Lyons ; I am "acrobatty" on the forum. This is only my third time recording for the project. I did a chapter of Northanger Abbey and a few chapters of Black Beauty for Kayray. I finished reading The Merchant's Tale today. It is 76 MB--longer than anything I've done before. Yousendit has a default of 50MB and hasn't replied to my request for a free account for 100MB. I don't know how to upload to librivox. I would appreciate any help you can give me. And please tell me how to pronounce your name and some insiders insights to Malta.

Acrobatty

Cynthia, I'm going to send you a PM offer to let you borrow some of my server space.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » April 9th, 2006, 12:10 pm

Cynthia is one of my favorite readers! I'm so happy she's contributing to the Tales :)

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » April 9th, 2006, 12:33 pm

Thanks kri, kayray - acrobatty sent me an email and I've already responded to her. It would be best if she uploaded directly to my ftp as broadband is very sketchy here at the moment and I have a hard time downloading files. Then it's also in the right place for proof-listening later.

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » April 10th, 2006, 2:03 am

acrobatty - thank you, received your file! My broadband is working again so could download it straight away.

BradBush · Post by **BradBush** » April 24th, 2006, 2:11 pm

My job has become over bearing, so I have to give up my chapter (The General Prologue). Hopefully someone will pick it up. If not, and its a few months down the road, I will claim it back.

Sorry.

Brad

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » April 24th, 2006, 2:40 pm

That's a shame, Brad - hope you'll have a lighter load soon! Thanks for letting me know so early, and hope to see you back soon. :)

Fox in the Stars · Post by **Fox in the Stars** » April 25th, 2006, 8:23 pm

Finished The Prioress's Tale:

http://www.shininghalf.com/sharepics/canterburytales_19_chaucer.mp3

All the Anti-Semitism, now with only half the calories.

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » April 27th, 2006, 9:31 am

Thank you, Laura! Just downloading. You're also still doing section 16, right? :)

Fox in the Stars · Post by **Fox in the Stars** » April 27th, 2006, 9:36 am

16 - The Doctor's Tale, yup.

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » April 27th, 2006, 10:07 am

Great. I got 19, had a brief listen, sounds delightful. Thanks! :)

Sethwoodworth · Post by **Sethwoodworth** » May 2nd, 2006, 2:30 pm

Look, I'm really sorry about this, but I'm just not happy with my reading/pronunciation of this translation of Chaucer. I've really been dragging my feet on this, but I'm letting the chapter's I've dibbed go back up for grabs.

I'm really sorry folks.

Fox in the Stars · Post by **Fox in the Stars** » May 2nd, 2006, 2:43 pm

Don't beat yourself up, Seth. This is all a volunteer thing; no need to saddle yourself with a frustrating project. I'm sure you can find something you'll have more fun reading and we'll find someone who'll enjoy reading these.

(::slaps her fox-nose away from them:: No. Doctor's Tale first, then you can have another...)

gwen · Post by **gwen** » May 11th, 2006, 2:39 pm

Could I have 18, the shipman's tale please? I'd like to give this olde English thing a try, and there aren't any decidedly female roles left.

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » May 12th, 2006, 6:38 pm

Sorry for my lack of response - my flag thing doesn't work properly and as I couldn't be on the forum much recently I missed your posts!

Seth - as Fox says, don't worry. I'll put them back to the pool. Thanks for letting us know.

Fox - you're wiser than I - whenever I resolve not to take any more chapters, I take on several... drat. No self-discipline.

gwen - super, 18 is yours, and will be fine read by a woman! :)

ladle · Post by **ladle** » May 18th, 2006, 11:15 am

I'd be happy to take on the general prologue (03) for my first project here at librivox.

--ladle