A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: younger cousins of the student and their friends of varying ages. The student, as much to amuse himself as to amuse the children, organises games and activities and tells stories. And the stories he tells are wild and fantastic. When his store of fairy tales and folk legends is exhausted he hits on the idea of retelling Greek Myths in his own style.
We visit Tanglewood six times during the course of a year and hear six of the student's beautifully told stories: The Gorgon's Head, The Golden Touch, A Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher and The Chimaera.
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I've seen this one in Book Suggestions forever. I'm glad it's getting done!
I'll MC for you once you have the number of sections worked out. (We just need a rough estimate; you can add sections as the soloist/BC, and I can remove sections as the MC.)
Once the gutenberg legal bits and the contents are stripped out there are around 52400 words. I read at about 150wpm, so that's about 350 minutes of finished audio. If I make the sections 25 minutes long I'd need 14 sections. As we can add and subtract sections later, why don't we go for that to start with.
I expect it'll be a bit different when it comes to it. I never works out that neatly.
PL note section 2 (chapter 1 part 2)
20:20 - I hear "as distinctly as if you were not visible", I think if should be "invisible"
The volume is a little bit loud, around 92. Please reduce by approximately 3.
Great reading!! I'm looking forward to next installment
