(Complete) Coffee Break Collection #31 - SPRINGTIME - Lt

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Autumn and Spring is PL OK. What a delightful story, Tally, and charmingly read! The Coffee Break Collections are very popular so a great many listeners will get to enjoy it. How about another?

Just a heads up, your volume checks out at 86.1 DB, just barely within LV range, which shoots for a median of 89DB. On future recordings you might bump your recording volume up just a wee bit. Also, I recommend you download our free Checker program, drag your files into it before uploading, and check on your parameters yourself. More on that here:
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Here is Daffodils, by William Wordsworth, with a journal entry by his sister, Dorothy describing the day.

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc31_daffodils_mtf_128kb.mp3 3:05

Text sources:
Poem https://www.bartleby.com/106/253.html
Dorothy's Journal Thursday April 15th: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42856/42856-h/42856-h.htm#FNanchor_56_56
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Uploaded Springtime A La Carte by O. Henry

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc31_alacarte_wj_128kb.mp3 16:53

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Book: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2776/2776-h/2776-h.htm
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2776/2776-h/2776-h.htm#chap14
Author; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry

I had prepared this for a Love Story collection some time ago.
I did a little Tempo changing and it is now close to the 15-minute suggested length.
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Hi Michele -

Here's one for this collection -

Uploader link: https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc31_inspringtime_ps_128kb.mp3 1:48
Title: In Spring Time
Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Online text link: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16578

I was curious about some of the words so I looked them up -
köil - Indian bell bird
siris - silk tree
satbhai - jungle babbler (another species of bird)

I have several other poems, but wondered if you'd rather have stories.
Fritz

"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules."

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Springtime a la Carte is PL OK. Thank you. Dandelions are all over my yard right now. Wish I knew how to cook them.
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pschempf wrote: March 27th, 2021, 7:04 pm Hi Michele -

Here's one for this collection -

Title: In Spring Time
Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

I was curious about some of the words so I looked them up -
köil - Indian bell bird
siris - silk tree
satbhai - jungle babbler (another species of bird)

I have several other poems, but wondered if you'd rather have stories.
In Spring Time is PL OK, Fritz. Thank you. Too bad the listener won't get to know what those words mean!

A few poems in the collection is fine, but if you have stories I'd prefer those now. Speaking of poems, would you be willing to PL mine on Daffodils (in MW)?
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Thanks, Michele. :)

I listened to daffodils. The poem is fine, but I noted these things in the excerpt -

@1:52 - "We fancied that the sea had floated the seeds ashore" I hear lake instead of sea.

@1:59 - "there were more and yet more" Yet is omitted

@2:34 - "This wind blew directly over the lake to them." The word The inserted for This.

@2:39 - "a few stragglers higher up" The words "a few yards" inserted between stragglers and higher.

@2:44 - "simplicity, unity, and life" of inserted before unity

All relatively minor and they don't change the meaning of the text.
Fritz

"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules."

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Post by Veggrower »

Hi - here's my contribution:

MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc31_blindgirl_gln_128kb.mp3
Length: 3:29

The Blind Girl and the Spring, by Sydney Grey (?--?)

Text source: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27287

Thanks a lot,

Garth
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Michele -

My second try -

Uploader link: https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc31_springintown_ps_128kb.mp3 4:42
Title: Spring In Town
Author: Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett] (1878-1957)
Online text link: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7838
Fritz

"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules."

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Post by RMerideth »

Hi, Michelle! I just uploaded "Signs of Spring", from In the Open, by Stanton Davis Kirkham

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc31_signsofspring_rtm_128kb.mp3 (14:41)

Text:

http://gutenberg.org/files/42591/42591-h/42591-h.htm

Regards,

Randall
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Daffodils with all changes made. Thanks, Fritz

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc31_daffodils_mtf_128kb.mp3 3:07
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hello

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc31_redbudthree_tt_128kb.mp3 (2.47)
The Red Bud Tree by Babbitt, Ellen C.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7518

I hope you like it :clap:

Tally
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msfry wrote: March 30th, 2021, 7:52 pm Daffodils with all changes made. Thanks, Fritz

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc31_daffodils_mtf_128kb.mp3 3:07
Seamless edits, Michele, but now there's a repeat at 1:55 - "floated the seeds ashore". Clip that and you should be good to go. :)
Fritz

"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules."

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And Michele for the win. :clap: :clap: :clap: PL okay! :thumbs:
Fritz

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