[Complete] Coffee Break Collection #34 -- VACATIONS by Various Authors - lt

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Merry Cruise is PL OK. :thumbs:
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I'm not sure whether it will fit under 15 minutes, but I'd like a go at Chapter IV ("Wrecking of a Life") of The Card by Arnold Bennett (in which a week at the seaside reveals some uncomfortable truths that wreck a relationship): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12986/12986-h/12986-h.htm#chapter4
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PatrickLondon wrote: March 23rd, 2022, 5:28 am I'm not sure whether it will fit under 15 minutes, but I'd like a go at Chapter IV ("Wrecking of a Life") of The Card by Arnold Bennett (in which a week at the seaside reveals some uncomfortable truths that wreck a relationship): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12986/12986-h/12986-h.htm#chapter4
It's easy enough to tell. Copy and paste the text into a Word document, which gives word count. This one says 5526 words. At 150 WPM, you're at about 37 minutes. SOOOOO, just find a midway point that makes sense, and submit two sections, Part 1 and Part 2. That would be fine with me. It would be OK if it went a few minutes over 15, and we can always up the Tempo effect a bit to shave off a minute or two (unless you already read very fast).

However, I seem to remember Lynne, our MC, saying that dividing up a story might not work for the Coffee Break Collections because the whole point is to imbibe a whole story on a single break. Let's see what she recommends.
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msfry wrote: March 23rd, 2022, 6:50 am
PatrickLondon wrote: March 23rd, 2022, 5:28 am I'm not sure whether it will fit under 15 minutes, but I'd like a go at Chapter IV ("Wrecking of a Life") of The Card by Arnold Bennett (in which a week at the seaside reveals some uncomfortable truths that wreck a relationship): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12986/12986-h/12986-h.htm#chapter4
It's easy enough to tell. Copy and paste the text into a Word document, which gives word count. This one says 5526 words. At 150 WPM, you're at about 37 minutes. SOOOOO, just find a midway point that makes sense, and submit two sections, Part 1 and Part 2. That would be fine with me. It would be OK if it went a few minutes over 15, and we can always up the Tempo effect a bit to shave off a minute or two (unless you already read very fast).

However, I seem to remember Lynne, our MC, saying that dividing up a story might not work for the Coffee Break Collections because the whole point is to imbibe a whole story on a single break. Let's see what she recommends.
Please keep to roughly 15 minutes and do not split a story.
Also, we don't like using random chapters from longer books unless they are very obviously standing alone.
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Lynnet wrote: March 23rd, 2022, 7:14 am
msfry wrote: March 23rd, 2022, 6:50 am
PatrickLondon wrote: March 23rd, 2022, 5:28 am I'm not sure whether it will fit under 15 minutes, but I'd like a go at Chapter IV ("Wrecking of a Life") of The Card by Arnold Bennett (in which a week at the seaside reveals some uncomfortable truths that wreck a relationship): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12986/12986-h/12986-h.htm#chapter4
It's easy enough to tell. Copy and paste the text into a Word document, which gives word count. This one says 5526 words. At 150 WPM, you're at about 37 minutes. SOOOOO, just find a midway point that makes sense, and submit two sections, Part 1 and Part 2. That would be fine with me. It would be OK if it went a few minutes over 15, and we can always up the Tempo effect a bit to shave off a minute or two (unless you already read very fast).

However, I seem to remember Lynne, our MC, saying that dividing up a story might not work for the Coffee Break Collections because the whole point is to imbibe a whole story on a single break. Let's see what she recommends.
Please keep to roughly 15 minutes and do not split a story.
Also, we don't like using random chapters from longer books unless they are very obviously standing alone.
Well, there it is. However, you might consider submitting it to my Love Stories Collection #5 (see link below), if it could be construed as a "love gone wrong" story?
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In the context of the novel as a whole, it's perhaps a "love that was never right in the first place" sort of story! But I'll have a think about it.
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PatrickLondon wrote: March 26th, 2022, 2:51 am In the context of the novel as a whole, it's perhaps a "love that was never right in the first place" sort of story! But I'll have a think about it.
Alas, I'm familiar! Maybe it qualifies as a warning, or as a "truth be told". :?
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Very much so, but with a lightly sardonic touch.
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Here is my contribution

Views of Holland
Aldous Huxley 1894-1963
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4410180&view=2up&seq=116&skin=2021
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_viewsofholland_kz_128kb.mp3 16:38


A mathematician visits Holland :)
I see now it's 1:38 over the time limit. Acceptable or do I need to trim it?
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Thanks Krista, the time will be okay. I'll PL Tomrrow.
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If anyone wants some ideas for this collection, have a look at this blog post (now archived, but still available courtesy of the Wayback Machine). Many of these are longer books, but some may well have suitable stand-alone sections or chapters that could be used here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210718231729/http://www.oldworldwandering.com/free-travel-books/
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MichaelMaggs wrote: April 8th, 2022, 6:49 am If anyone wants some ideas for this collection, have a look at this blog post (now archived, but still available courtesy of the Wayback Machine). Many of these are longer books, but some may well have suitable stand-alone sections or chapters that could be used here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210718231729/http://www.oldworldwandering.com/free-travel-books/
This is a magnificent resource! Thank you. I'll add the link to the First Post.
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PL Notes Views of Holland

6:00 repeat, "Like a Cartesian Encyclopedist", en-cyc-lo-pe'-dist
12:16 one could write a canto from Childe Harold, you ca-tan-o.

I had to look up this word: pol·der
[ˈpōldər]
NOUN
a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands.

What an interesting book. It would make a great addition to the LV catalogue's Huxley collection.
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Here are another couple of pieces for you. Both are excerpts from longer works, but should do quite well as stand-alone tracks.

Excerpt from A Holiday in Scandinavia by Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935) (as he's normally known according to Wikipedia)
https://archive.org/details/asummerholidayi01arnogoog/page/n242/mode/2up
(Starting to read at chapter XI, page 228)
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_summerholidayscandinavia_mm_128kb.mp3 @ 14.59

Excerpt from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/650
(Starting to read at “To Rome by Pisa and Siena,” page 297)
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_picturesitaly_mm_128kb.mp3 @ 10.02
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msfry wrote: April 8th, 2022, 10:15 am PL Notes Views of Holland

6:00 repeat, "Like a Cartesian Encyclopedist", en-cyc-lo-pe'-dist
12:16 one could write a canto from Childe Harold, you ca-tan-o.

I had to look up this word: pol·der
[ˈpōldər]
NOUN
a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands.

What an interesting book. It would make a great addition to the LV catalogue's Huxley collection.
Corrections uploaded.
I had to look up "polder" too :)

I'm trying to work my way through those works of Huxley that aren't in our collection, but I'm happy to share :) (I saw earlier you mentioned BCing this one - please go ahead if you like and I'll happily contribute. I'm going to launch another short story collection of his once I get Limbo finished, I think).
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