A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when other influences cause distrust in the business partnership and the daughter runs off to be with the prince. (Summary by Kristel Tretter)
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OK, I think you are set up. As a soloist, you are your own BC and are responsible for updating the magic window. I don't think you've done this before, have you? I will PM you your password.
Hey thanks, Sarah. Yes, my first solo. I'm looking forward to it. I'll read up on what I need to know for updating the MW. And, although I'm not picky, I have so few ties back to Ottawa that it'll be nice working with you.
Great to have you, Sharon. I plan to work on the first chapter in the next couple days, before I head to Malaysia this weekend. I'm hoping some of the locations in the book will inspire some future weekend travel destinations.
I'm just awaiting the file to upload and I'll post it in the MW. I know the first chapter is longer than the 10-40 min recommendation. I'm pretty sure, from the looks of it, that most of the other chapters are not quite as long. Let me know if it's a problem and I'll split it in 2. If any other chapters come up longer than this one, I'll definitely split it up.
Chapter 1---silence between intro and start of chapter alittle long.
:59--repeated phrase-"No matter there would be an end to it"
1:45-incorrect phrase"though his honest exertions" needs to be removed
2:45--"and return he" repeated
3:30-repeated "amongst which" twice
4:31--repeated "he envied that inanimate thing now"
4:47--repeated "would the current"
5:00--repeated phrase "South probably til it drifted in sight of Celebes as far as M perhaps"
The rest of the chapter was great. Just had a little trouble getting started. Your reading is very
good and I am enjoying it.
Sharon
Play Words with Friends with me at skilmer1 on iphone.
FYI only - You don't have to divide the section until it's 72 minutes long. Some listeners do burn our books to CD, so our max is what a CD will hold. Some readers choose to divide shorter sections - sometimes they don't like long sections, sometimes they want all sections to be similar in length, etc. Whatever the reader wants is generally fine as long as the sections are not ridiculously short.
