[COMPLETE] Pansies for Thoughts by "Pansy" and Grace Livingston Hill - tg

[LikeManyWaters]

Pansies for Thoughts by Pansy (1841 - 1930) and others.

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/pansies-for-thoughts-by-pansy/

The young Grace Livingston compiled this book using quotes from her aunt's works; Isabella Macdonald Alden (who wrote under the pen name "Pansy"). It is a quote for each day of the year from one of the "Pansy Books" plus a bit of related scripture or verse. (LikeManyWaters)

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[lomond]

Greetings -

DPL reporting for duty if you need one.

Lomond

[LikeManyWaters]

Yes, I do! Thanks

Lomond as DPL

[LikeManyWaters]

Although, I don't know how to delete the ~ in the title...

[TriciaG]

This is set up.

I think that there's a time limit for editing your posts, and possibly that time was passed when you tried to remove the tilde. It's gone now.

[LikeManyWaters]

Thank you, Tricia. Ready for readers, And here's the Preface.

Click on the Word Count under Notes and you should go directly to that Month in the text...
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[lomond]

Greetings -

Pompously he says, "I have found no unacceptable qualities in the reading of the Preface of this book and, therefore, I deem it to be PL OK."

I find it interesting that Pansy was, in real life, the aunt of Grace Livingston Hill who, herself, occasionally wrote using the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald which just happened to be the real name of her mother.

We are off to a good start.

Lomond

[TriciaG]

Moving this to Readers Wanted!

[LikeManyWaters]

I have made a slight change in what the reader says at the START and END of the recording (see first post), so that they will say the month (i.e. "January") instead of [chapter #]. Is this ok?

I'm almost done with January and will post that in a day or two. Thanks.

[TriciaG]

Yes, that's fine.

[LikeManyWaters]

January ready for PL.

[lomond]

January ready for PL.

Greetings -

January was nicely read and has been found PL OK.

Lomond

[LikeManyWaters]

Thank you! February is ready for PL now...

[lomond]

Thank you! February is ready for PL now...

Greetings -

Section February has just one thing to fix.

Time: 00:22 Text has "to forgive transgression, to cover sin," Reading has "to transform"

Lots of good thoughts.

Lomond

[LikeManyWaters]

Thank you. Fixed and updated February. I don't know how I did that...