COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 089 -jo

[MaryinArkansas]

I modified the title to make it more searchable; I wanted the word "Bolshevists" which is in the title of Warren's article in vol. 088, to appear in the title to this companion piece.

Thanks for modifying the title Sue, that makes it much more appropriate to the piece in volume 088.

The situation Mrs. Warren and her acquaintances were in reminded me a little of the book "A Gentleman in Moscow." Although their situations were not total captivity in one small room, their time was spent with very little choices of what they could do and where they could go, but a whole lot of what they could not do and where they could not go.

[Sue Anderson]

Warren's enforced stay in Baku had to be unnerving, at best! Thanks, Mary, for the continuation of her story for vol. 089.
I haven't read Towels' A Gentleman in Moscow, but it looks interesting: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34066798-a-gentleman-in-moscow

[Availle]

Just wanted to mention that I already recorded my (very short) piece for this collection and I'm hoping to edit and upload it tonight.

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Availle,
Great! How's the internet connection at your new place?

[Availle]

Excellent optical cable, which I have finally extended upstairs as well.
Still recording in the "wrong" room that's facing the brook, instead of the one in front which is smaller and even more quiet, but the background noise is not so bad that it couldn't be cleaned.

I'm looking forward to wonderful years of recording.

[Availle]

And here we go:

Diet and Hygiene for Brain Workers
by Dora C. C. L. Roper
From "Food for the Traveler": https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27245

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf089_dietbrainworkers_roper_ava_128kb.mp3
3:20

[Sue Anderson]

And here we go:

Diet and Hygiene for Brain Workers
by Dora C. C. L. Roper
From "Food for the Traveler": https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27245

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf089_dietbrainworkers_roper_ava_128kb.mp3
3:20

Hi Availle, Thanks for this look at healthy diet and hygiene for brain workers, as viewed by Dora Roper in 1916. The menus in that book are quite interesting. Having just eaten breakfast (toast, grapefruit, coffee) when I PL'd this, I took a look at what Roper suggests for the morning meal--some sounded ok, some, well...not so appetizing--for instance "finely mashed boiled beets or turnips or carrots with parsley and bacon..."

Actually, most of Roper's hints for brain workers hold up (adequate sleep, etc.). One of her "don'ts" --"avoid fresh breads" brought back memories. My grandmother, who taught me how to bake bread, was adamant you couldn't eat the bread hot from the oven. I'd forgotten about her rule until I heard your recording. I can see that it's still a "hot topic," for internet discussion but is now considered an old wives tale, "probably to discourage children from stealing freshly baked bread."
https://www.world-today-news.com/is-it-true-that-eating-hot-bread-blocks-digestion/

PL OK!

[SampsonSpeaks]

Hi Sue,

Can I record Jane Eyre Chapter 1? https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260-h/1260-h.htm

Thanks SampsonSpeaks

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Sue,

Can I record Jane Eyre Chapter 1? https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260-h/1260-h.htm

Thanks SampsonSpeaks

Hi SampsonSpeaks,

Welcome to LibriVox! Thanks for asking whether a chapter from Jane Eyre would be suitable for the Nonfiction Collection. Actually, Jane Eyre is a novel. It just happens to have the word "autobiography" in the title. Since it is fiction, it would NOT be suitable for the Nonfiction Collection.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the book:

"Jane Eyre (/ɛər/ AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman which follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre

LibriVox does have a collection for short fiction, but I'm not sure whether they would accept a chapter from a novel there. You could ask the book coordinator of that collection, Lynnet, about your interest: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=89092.

If you have any other reads that you think might be nonfiction, please feel free to check with us on their suitability. We'd be happy to have you contribute to the Nonfiction Collection.

[gurleyda]

Hi,
I submitted 'Notes on the Behavior of the Social Wasp Polistes' by Horace Gunthorp. It's a Journal article from the Journal of Entomology and Zoology volume 11 No.4, published in December 1919. The link to the text is:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37632/37632-h/37632-h.htm
and the link to the audio file is:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf089_behaviorsocialwasppolistes_gunthorp_dg_128kb.mp3

it is 13minutes 30 sec.
I haven't recorded for about a year so I'm sure there will be an issue or two.

Cheers,
Davo

[Sue Anderson]

Hi,
I submitted 'Notes on the Behavior of the Social Wasp Polistes' by Horace Gunthorp. It's a Journal article from the Journal of Entomology and Zoology volume 11 No.4, published in December 1919. The link to the text is:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37632/37632-h/37632-h.htm
and the link to the audio file is:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf089_behaviorsocialwasppolistes_gunthorp_dg_128kb.mp3

it is 13minutes 30 sec.
I haven't recorded for about a year so I'm sure there will be an issue or two.

Cheers,
Davo

Hi Davo, Welcome to the Short Nonfiction Collection! Horace Gunthorp's account of the three individual wasps emerging from their cells really brought to mind how much we can learn about nature by simple observation. It reminded me, too, of a feature of the county fairs of my childhood, which included a display of baby chicks in an incubator pecking their way out of their shells. We would stare at this display, fascinated, for minutes--though not with the seriousness or vigilance of Gunthorp with his wasps!

Back in 2009, I recorded a selection on wasps for the SNF. https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-057-by-various/. My read was prompted by finding, during the late fall, a large, abandoned, paper wasp nest (about a foot in diameter) which had been blown to the ground. These nests are fairly common here in Illinois, hanging from tree branches. There were no live wasps or larva in it. I took it home and eventually opened it up to see what it looked like inside. There are some pictures of the nest on my blog: https://audiobooks.oliveandseablue.com/arts/natureandscience/communal-life-of-wasps/

Your reading is PL OK!

[KevinS]

Sue, would you welcome a forty-minute (or so) description of England's Rugby public school? It is part of a larger book which addresses a number of the more renown schools, but I would like to concentrate on Rugby. (I'm just finishing a novel for LV that is set at the school.)

It can be found here: https://archive.org/details/everydaylifeinou00pascuoft/page/166/mode/2up

If this doesn't fit within the usual parameters, I won't be offended with a 'no.'

[Sue Anderson]

Sue, would you welcome a forty-minute (or so) description of England's Rugby public school? It is part of a larger book which addresses a number of the more renown schools, but I would like to concentrate on Rugby. (I'm just finishing a novel for LV that is set at the school.)

It can be found here: https://archive.org/details/everydaylifeinou00pascuoft/page/166/mode/2up

If this doesn't fit within the usual parameters, I won't be offended with a 'no.'

Hi Kevin, The description of Rugby public school would be fine! I seem to remember that you were headmaster of a boarding school at one point in your career.

[KevinS]

Sue, would you welcome a forty-minute (or so) description of England's Rugby public school? It is part of a larger book which addresses a number of the more renown schools, but I would like to concentrate on Rugby. (I'm just finishing a novel for LV that is set at the school.)

It can be found here: https://archive.org/details/everydaylifeinou00pascuoft/page/166/mode/2up

If this doesn't fit within the usual parameters, I won't be offended with a 'no.'

Hi Kevin, The description of Rugby public school would be fine! I seem to remember that you were headmaster of a boarding school at one point in your career.

Thank you! Just a housemaster in charge of some 48 young men. That was more than enough!

[lurcherlover]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf089_americanenglishtradition_ayres_pt_128kb.mp3

America and the English tradition by Harry Morgan Ayres (1881-1948)

Duration: 10:54

Source: https://gutenberg.org/files/38280/38280-h/38280-h.htm#page_153

Hope all is OK.

Peter