[COMPLETE] Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer by Sir Richard Steele - tg

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Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer by Richard Steele (1672 - 1729).

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/isaac-bickerstaff-physician-and-astrologer-by-richard-steele/
Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge. In 1709, Richard Steele bolstered the release of his new satirical paper The Tatler by naming the fictitious Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. as editor. These are fictional essays/memoirs of Bickerstaff, written by Steele. (temporary summary; final to be provided)
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Post by annise »

Elijah - you really need to slow down a bit. You walked out earlier this year without any explanation and left others to finish off all your projects and now you reappear, signing up for PLing , and posting a Solo and now you want to BC a group project. Group projects are a responsibility, the readers who sign on expect the BC to be there when they need them and this does not happen when the BC disappears without notice, claims go unrecorded, readings are not added to the MW and eventually, someone else has to try and clean up after you rather than do what they want to do.

So you need to demonstrate that this isn't going to happen again and until then, please don't attempt to start a group project. We all know you are a teenager and life changes continually then - we've been there, done that, and it's nice to have you back but what you have started already should keep you going.

If you have a reason why you dropped out that you don't want in public PM me. Not having time is a good reason, but I'd expect you to learn from that and take on less this time so it doesn't happen again :D

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Post by ej400 »

I understand that I walked away from librivox, and I do apologize that I didn't appear much after that. I honestly hope to work on more projects and get my projects complete and done. I am more mature now, and I realize that what I was doing before was extremely rude of me and I sincerely do apologize.

I see your point that I probably should slow down, and that I should take things slowly until I can prove to you that I'm going to stay here and do what I need to. To be honest, I want to make sure that I can prove myself to be an active user, and I would like to complete projects without walking away. Although it seems like I'm jumping in early, and that my reputation isn't very good currently, I want you to trust me when I say that I'm going to make sure my projects and getting full attention and that if someone claims something I will put it in as soon as possible. I promise that I'm going to try my hardest to give time to librivox.

All I'm asking that this be the last project I open up before I complete another one please. Thank you.
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Post by TriciaG »

I'll MC this.

I've corrected the book title (added "Physician and Astrologer") and the genres/keywords (it's not a children's book). I've slapped together an intro, as you really should have one for potential readers. In the course of the project, you can hone this or discard it altogether for one of your own.

I think that's all I need to say. I'll get the MW up shortly.
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Post by ej400 »

Thank you so much Tricia, I thank you for giving me another chance even though I really didn't deserve it. I really appreciate it, thank you so much. And thanks for changing the title and the intro, I'm not really familiar with the book, yet.

I'll add the word count into the MW later, thanks again.
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Post by ej400 »

I've added the titles and the word counts. I also found a mistake with gutenberg, where in the last two chapters (26 and 27), 26 is listed as XVII instead of XXVI. 27 is listed as XXVI, but it is XXVII.

I think were ready to move to readers wanted: books.

Thank you
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Post by TriciaG »

OK!
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Post by TriciaG »

Per PM, changing this into a solo.

You'll need a new DPL. ;)

I didn't change the first post to the solo template; you can use the shortened LV intro in your second and subsequent sections.

Moved to Going Solo.
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Post by aniroo »

I would be happy to PL for you if you are still looking for a DPL.


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