[SOLO]Dark Princess, by W.E.B. Du Bois-mas

vviera · Post by **vviera** » May 9th, 2024, 9:03 am

LCaulkins wrote: ↑May 9th, 2024, 7:13 am Sections 22 and 23 are both PL OK

That got a bit cheesy and melodramatic, didn't it? almost like: "Players gonna play." . . . I've had my fun, it's so glorious, but I can't stay with you, so go back to her. But, oh, I love you so much eternally. . . . In this stretch of the novel, I don't know which of the two gets more of my momentary scorn.

I'm mostly just bored of the monologues presented as conversations or letters. Hoping something actually starts to happen now.

vviera · Post by **vviera** » May 18th, 2024, 5:27 pm

Ch. 24 is up

vviera · Post by **vviera** » May 22nd, 2024, 7:06 pm

Sec. 25 is up.

When I listened back to this, I felt I read in too much of a hurry. Not that I was speaking the words too fast, but the sentences often felt like they had too little space between them. boom.boom.boom.boom. sentence.sentence.sentence.sentence.

So I went back through and put in many spaces of around half a second to let the text breathe a little. Please let me know if there is too much space anywhere.

Maybe I'm rushing to finish, because I am soooo done with this book!

Thanks much.

LCaulkins · Post by **LCaulkins** » May 23rd, 2024, 5:49 am

Section 24 is PL OK

I'll pay particular attention to sentence pacing for you on the next one

vviera · Post by **vviera** » May 23rd, 2024, 6:07 am

LCaulkins wrote: ↑May 23rd, 2024, 5:49 am Section 24 is PL OK

I'll pay particular attention to sentence pacing for you on the next one

Thank you!

vviera · Post by **vviera** » May 23rd, 2024, 6:20 pm

Sec. 26 is up. I've also done 28, but I don't want to spoil the ending for you like I did for myself

LCaulkins · Post by **LCaulkins** » May 24th, 2024, 3:39 pm

Hi! Sections 25 and 26 are both PL OK

And your sentences flowed very nicely, so the extra bits of space you put in were successful (and not at all noticeable).

vviera · Post by **vviera** » May 26th, 2024, 2:14 pm

Last two sections up for PL !!!

LCaulkins · Post by **LCaulkins** » May 29th, 2024, 6:58 am

Sections 27 and 28 are both PL OK

So that's a wrap for you! Congratulations, Verla, it's a really nice addition for Du Bois works in our Catalog.

vviera · Post by **vviera** » May 29th, 2024, 7:16 am

LCaulkins wrote: ↑May 29th, 2024, 6:58 am Sections 27 and 28 are both PL OK

So that's a wrap for you! Congratulations, Verla, it's a really nice addition for Du Bois works in our Catalog.

Yay! And thank you so much for your PL work. This book is so much better because of it. Hope to see you soon. I did section 3 of the insomnia collection yesterday, but I won't do the remaining eight sections straight through. I love them, but it takes a particular type of patience to record those. When I need a break, I'll set up that Strange Voyage book.

Thanks again!

vviera · Post by **vviera** » May 29th, 2024, 7:19 am

MaryAnnSpiegel wrote: ↑January 18th, 2024, 6:12 pm Verla
I'd be happy to MC this for you. I'll get your MW set up.
MaryAnn

MaryAnn,
This is ready for cataloging! Here are the summary and tags.

This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has decided white women are not appropriate patients for a Black doctor. In disgust with his own country, Matthew leaves America and goes to Europe. While in Berlin, his life is changed forever when he attends a meeting of people who are interested in uplifting all the “darker races” of the world. He begins from there a four-year journey that sees his fate entwined with the Dark Princess, who is royalty from India. In this story from 1928, Du Bois recounts Towns’ adventures, but also uses events, conversations, and letters between the characters to explore racial and social justice issues.

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Black history
Black literature
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Racism
African American literature
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Thank you for the MC!