[Complete] Coffee Break Collection #34 -- VACATIONS by Various Authors - lt

[msfry]

Merry Cruise is PL OK.

[PatrickLondon]

I'm not sure whether it will fit under 15 minutes, but I'd like a go at Chapter IV ("Wrecking of a Life") of The Card by Arnold Bennett (in which a week at the seaside reveals some uncomfortable truths that wreck a relationship): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12986/12986-h/12986-h.htm#chapter4

[msfry]

I'm not sure whether it will fit under 15 minutes, but I'd like a go at Chapter IV ("Wrecking of a Life") of The Card by Arnold Bennett (in which a week at the seaside reveals some uncomfortable truths that wreck a relationship): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12986/12986-h/12986-h.htm#chapter4

It's easy enough to tell. Copy and paste the text into a Word document, which gives word count. This one says 5526 words. At 150 WPM, you're at about 37 minutes. SOOOOO, just find a midway point that makes sense, and submit two sections, Part 1 and Part 2. That would be fine with me. It would be OK if it went a few minutes over 15, and we can always up the Tempo effect a bit to shave off a minute or two (unless you already read very fast).

However, I seem to remember Lynne, our MC, saying that dividing up a story might not work for the Coffee Break Collections because the whole point is to imbibe a whole story on a single break. Let's see what she recommends.

[Lynnet]

I'm not sure whether it will fit under 15 minutes, but I'd like a go at Chapter IV ("Wrecking of a Life") of The Card by Arnold Bennett (in which a week at the seaside reveals some uncomfortable truths that wreck a relationship): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12986/12986-h/12986-h.htm#chapter4

It's easy enough to tell. Copy and paste the text into a Word document, which gives word count. This one says 5526 words. At 150 WPM, you're at about 37 minutes. SOOOOO, just find a midway point that makes sense, and submit two sections, Part 1 and Part 2. That would be fine with me. It would be OK if it went a few minutes over 15, and we can always up the Tempo effect a bit to shave off a minute or two (unless you already read very fast).

However, I seem to remember Lynne, our MC, saying that dividing up a story might not work for the Coffee Break Collections because the whole point is to imbibe a whole story on a single break. Let's see what she recommends.

Please keep to roughly 15 minutes and do not split a story.
Also, we don't like using random chapters from longer books unless they are very obviously standing alone.

[msfry]

I'm not sure whether it will fit under 15 minutes, but I'd like a go at Chapter IV ("Wrecking of a Life") of The Card by Arnold Bennett (in which a week at the seaside reveals some uncomfortable truths that wreck a relationship): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12986/12986-h/12986-h.htm#chapter4

It's easy enough to tell. Copy and paste the text into a Word document, which gives word count. This one says 5526 words. At 150 WPM, you're at about 37 minutes. SOOOOO, just find a midway point that makes sense, and submit two sections, Part 1 and Part 2. That would be fine with me. It would be OK if it went a few minutes over 15, and we can always up the Tempo effect a bit to shave off a minute or two (unless you already read very fast).

However, I seem to remember Lynne, our MC, saying that dividing up a story might not work for the Coffee Break Collections because the whole point is to imbibe a whole story on a single break. Let's see what she recommends.

Please keep to roughly 15 minutes and do not split a story.
Also, we don't like using random chapters from longer books unless they are very obviously standing alone.

Well, there it is. However, you might consider submitting it to my Love Stories Collection #5 (see link below), if it could be construed as a "love gone wrong" story?

[PatrickLondon]

In the context of the novel as a whole, it's perhaps a "love that was never right in the first place" sort of story! But I'll have a think about it.

[msfry]

In the context of the novel as a whole, it's perhaps a "love that was never right in the first place" sort of story! But I'll have a think about it.

Alas, I'm familiar! Maybe it qualifies as a warning, or as a "truth be told".

[PatrickLondon]

Very much so, but with a lightly sardonic touch.

[kristakz]

Here is my contribution

Views of Holland
Aldous Huxley 1894-1963
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4410180&view=2up&seq=116&skin=2021
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_viewsofholland_kz_128kb.mp3 16:38


A mathematician visits Holland
I see now it's 1:38 over the time limit. Acceptable or do I need to trim it?

[msfry]

Thanks Krista, the time will be okay. I'll PL Tomrrow.

[MichaelMaggs]

If anyone wants some ideas for this collection, have a look at this blog post (now archived, but still available courtesy of the Wayback Machine). Many of these are longer books, but some may well have suitable stand-alone sections or chapters that could be used here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210718231729/http://www.oldworldwandering.com/free-travel-books/

[msfry]

If anyone wants some ideas for this collection, have a look at this blog post (now archived, but still available courtesy of the Wayback Machine). Many of these are longer books, but some may well have suitable stand-alone sections or chapters that could be used here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210718231729/http://www.oldworldwandering.com/free-travel-books/

This is a magnificent resource! Thank you. I'll add the link to the First Post.

[msfry]

PL Notes Views of Holland

6:00 repeat, "Like a Cartesian Encyclopedist", en-cyc-lo-pe'-dist
12:16 one could write a canto from Childe Harold, you ca-tan-o.

I had to look up this word: pol·der
[ˈpōldər]
NOUN
a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands.

What an interesting book. It would make a great addition to the LV catalogue's Huxley collection.

[MichaelMaggs]

Here are another couple of pieces for you. Both are excerpts from longer works, but should do quite well as stand-alone tracks.

Excerpt from A Holiday in Scandinavia by Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935) (as he's normally known according to Wikipedia)
https://archive.org/details/asummerholidayi01arnogoog/page/n242/mode/2up
(Starting to read at chapter XI, page 228)
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_summerholidayscandinavia_mm_128kb.mp3 @ 14.59

Excerpt from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/650
(Starting to read at “To Rome by Pisa and Siena,” page 297)
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_picturesitaly_mm_128kb.mp3 @ 10.02

[kristakz]

PL Notes Views of Holland

6:00 repeat, "Like a Cartesian Encyclopedist", en-cyc-lo-pe'-dist
12:16 one could write a canto from Childe Harold, you ca-tan-o.

I had to look up this word: pol·der
[ˈpōldər]
NOUN
a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands.

What an interesting book. It would make a great addition to the LV catalogue's Huxley collection.

Corrections uploaded.
I had to look up "polder" too

I'm trying to work my way through those works of Huxley that aren't in our collection, but I'm happy to share (I saw earlier you mentioned BCing this one - please go ahead if you like and I'll happily contribute. I'm going to launch another short story collection of his once I get Limbo finished, I think).