First, I have to say, I love your username here.
Here are my notes for the two sections.
6: Please remove around 1 second of silence at the start and at the end. It should be between 0.5 and 1.0 seconds at the start and around 5 seconds at the end. Those are the only required changes for this section. The following notes are informational only. Your volume is a little on the high side but is still acceptable. It ideally would be around 2 dB lower. There are also some strange noises cropping up in the recording. No need to remove, just something to look out for when editing in the future. Some examples occur at 0:11-0:14 and 3:12.
17: One small change requested here. You have some long silences between the paragraphs but most are consistent. The only one that doesn't fit is at 4:50. If you could shorten that one by about 1 second to place it in line with the others, the recording would be PL OK.
You did a nice job with the recordings. The only concerns are with the lengths of some of the silences. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
M