Suggest a "Staff Pick" for archive.org

Post by **Availle** » July 1st, 2014, 1:17 am

The staff has picked for July - thanks for your suggestions. Please have a look at this page for the current list. You can also check out our wiki page for a plain vanilla list, and we have another list with all the covers at a glance on the main m4b catalog page.

The theme for next month will be

?

oh, I'll just make it a birthday surprise

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » July 1st, 2014, 1:24 am

Availle wrote:The theme for next month will be

?

Pooh, that's easy.

Post by **Availle** » July 1st, 2014, 1:29 am

Post by **Availle** » August 1st, 2014, 1:15 am

Happy Anniversary LibriVox!

The staff has picked for August - I hope you like the surprise. Please have a look at this page for the current list. You can also check out our wiki page for a plain vanilla list containing all the staff picks of this year.

The theme for next month will be

Back To School!

I am happy about all suggestions concerning school/teachers/education/different subjects... Especially welcome are suggestions of plays and poetry.

Thanks for your help!

Post by **TriciaG** » August 1st, 2014, 5:53 am

Nice!

One question: is this correct?

Well, The Way Of the World never changes, especially when it comes to love. Mirabell wants to marry Miramant, but first he has to seek her aunt’s approval, who would rather see her nephew marry Miramant…

Post by **Availle** » August 1st, 2014, 6:14 am

Yes, I double checked it - Mirabell is the guy...

17th century, maybe names were different then?

ETA: Made a mistake after all, the girl is called Millamant. Thanks for checking!

Post by **Availle** » September 1st, 2014, 1:48 am

The staff has picked for September. Please have a look at this page for the current list. You can also check out our wiki page for a plain vanilla list that contains all the staff picks for this year.

The theme for next month will be

Halloween

I am happy about all suggestions concerning Halloween/gosts/horror stories/creepy animals... Especially welcome are suggestions of plays and poetry.

Thanks for your help!
Hopefully, everybody is home from vacation by now...

Post by **annise** » September 1st, 2014, 3:13 am

https://librivox.org/the-book-of-halloween-by-ruth-edna-kelley/ but I think we had it before

Post by **Availle** » September 1st, 2014, 4:27 am

Actually, we didn't

It came out too late for the October Staff Picks in 2009 (which were still managed by Ruth then) and I only took over in 2010, and I didn't use it the one and only time we had a Ghost/Horror theme...

Anyway, still 9 slots open!

Hokuspokus · Post by **Hokuspokus** » September 2nd, 2014, 7:37 am

Guy de Maupassant, Le (Der, The) Horla. We have it in the catalog in F, E and D https://librivox.org/search?q=Horla&search_form=advanced
Edgar Allan Poe, The The Tell-tale Heart. 20 recordings in English https://librivox.org/search?q=The%20Tell-tale%20Heart&search_form=advanced , 3 in German (Das schwatzende Herz) https://librivox.org/search?q=Das%20schwatzende%20Herz&search_form=advanced and one here https://librivox.org/erzahlungen-by-edgar-allan-poe/
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Multilingual https://librivox.org/the-raven-multilingual-by-edgar-allan-poe/
Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 3 recordings https://librivox.org/search?q=Canterville&search_form=advanced
Horace Walpole, The Castel of Otranto (2 recordings in E and D) https://librivox.org/search?q=Otranto&search_form=advanced
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mister Hide (4 recordings, 1 in D) https://librivox.org/search?q=Dr%20Jekyll&search_form=advanced

commonsparrow3 · Post by **commonsparrow3** » September 2nd, 2014, 8:00 am

What about one of these:

The Book of Ghosts by Sabine Baring-Gould -- (short stories)
https://librivox.org/the-book-of-ghosts-by-sabine-baring-gould/

In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn -- (short stories)
https://librivox.org/in-ghostly-japan-by-lafcadio-hearn/

The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins -- (novel)
https://librivox.org/the-haunted-hotel-a-mystery-of-modern-venice-by-wilkie-collins/

The Ghost Breaker by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey -- (dramatic reading)
https://librivox.org/the-ghost-breaker-by-charles-goddard-and-paul-dicky/
(This story was the original source of the Bob Hope comedy-horror movie)

smike · Post by **smike** » September 10th, 2014, 1:49 pm

Can I just say that love the staff picks? there are always some veritable gems among them I'd never have discovered otherwise. keep up the good work.

Post by **Availle** » September 10th, 2014, 3:44 pm

Thank you!

Starlite · Post by **Starlite** » September 11th, 2014, 2:53 pm

Hi Ava,

In light of the Franklin ship discovery, may I suggest https://librivox.org/in-the-arctic-seas-by-francis-mcclintock/ as a spotlight item?

Do we have any other books about Franklin? I seem to recall some but have not found them in my searches.

Esther

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » September 11th, 2014, 2:57 pm

Hello! Yes, we had Charles Dickens' accounts in the Dickens Anniversary Collections.

Ruth