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Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20171023The Blue Castle is a 1926 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for her novel Anne of Green Gables.
Valancy Stirling is twenty-nine, unmarried , and has lived her entire life with her nagging mother and gossip-minded extended family, who actively discourage happiness and treat Valancy like a child. She retreats from her unhappy circumstances with flights of imaginative fantasy, centring on daydreams of her imaginary "Blue Castle," and finding refuge in the books of her favourite author, John Foster, who writes about the great beauty of nature. When Valancy is diagnosed with a terminal heart ailment, she hides it from her family and, at the same time, realizes she has never been happy in her life, so she rebels against the colourless life that her family has always imposed on her. She begins by judging them objectively and, even worse, telling them exactly what she thinks, causing the Stirling clan to conclude that Valancy has suddenly lost her mind. (Temporary summary borrowed from Wikipedia)
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Chapter # of The Blue Castle. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "The Blue Castle, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Section Title."
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If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of chapter #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Blue Castle, by Lucy Maud Montgomery."
Filename: bluecastle_##_montgomery_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. bluecastle_01_montgomery_128kb.mp3)
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MC to select: m8b1
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