COMPLETE: The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini - dc

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Chapter 11:

Very dramatic reading! I was quite riveted by the drama and you did a great job expressing it!

There is one repeated phrase:

“But the prodigious rapidity of his blade broke as upon a cuirass”
At 22:07 (the timer counts down)

Also it looks like the silence at the end is a little short, I make it about 3 seconds.

Looking forward to the next chapter!

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Chapter 12 (section 13) PL ok!!
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Chapter 13 (Section 14) is PL OK!
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Thanks so much for finding that terrible gaffe in section 12. It was so hard for me to pronounce "cuirass" , and it took a few tries. The repeated phrase should be gone now.
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Chapter 15 is ready now.
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Section 12 is now PL OK!

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Chapters 14 and 15 PL OK!

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Chapter 16 is ready.
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Chapter 18 is ready
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Sections 17 and 18 PL OK! :clap:
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Chapter 19 is ready. Sabatini really teases with some suspense in this one.
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I've never read Sabatini before but I'm going to be looking for more of his work now! I'd heard of Captain Blood and the Sea Hawk but didn't realize he had such a long list of novels. I can really see the roots of a lot of the modern romance novel hero tropes -- although I suspect Sabatini influenced Georgette Heyer and Heyer is the route to most of the modern-day romance writers.

It's also an interesting contrast with the non-fiction book I'm listening to right now, the Four Georges by Justin McCarthy, which covers the same era of Jacobite plotting. Though that is pretty well packed with drama too, just told less dramatically.

Looking forward to getting to this chapter, hopefully tonight!

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Chapter 19 is ready.

One interesting thing that Sabatini does in this book is give every character a flaw. Even Hortensia with her hasty elopement, though she seems to be quite perfect by this point of the story.
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Chapter 18 and 19 are PL OK!
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There are 4 chapters left in the book—are they going to be combined into the two sections or do two more rows need to be added to the MW?
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