ah that's how it happened. Well, that's the beauty of Audacity (or any other editing program). You can take your time, breathe in and out between each sentence if you wish, or even take a break of over 10 seconds and let the recording run on. This will be your "raw recording". At a second stage, all these long pauses can get cut out easily and the remaining track will sound much more fluent, and nobody would know there was so much "rubbish" in it in the first round.
Though I would recommend leaving some kind of breathing in, don't cut out all the breaths. It's human to breathe, only robots don't breathe and a long recording without any natural breathing sound tends to put the listener into uncanny valley. 
As an example, my raw material of about 20 minutes may well end up as a 15 minute final track. This is normal for me. The second editing phase usually takes me 3 to 4 times as long as the initial recording.
Cutting silences is really really easy. I predict these edits will not take you more than 10 minutes once you get the hang of it.I have never edited on Audacity before (the only function, besides record/stop, is the Effect > Amplify we've been told in instructions. Hope it's alright if it takes me about a week to get back to you, as I am sure that I may get similar feedback with the other reads and will try to do them all at once.
definitely NO re-recording !Will you please explain what you mean by "start at the last note {. . .] work your way up"? Am I re-recording or cutting?
You only need to do some small cuts, re-recording would be such a waste of time. And the risk of having other errors in the new recording are high, so best work on the flawlessly read file you have now. Editing is always preferred over re-recording as it saves time both for the reader and also the DPLer.I meant: start cutting at the last time stamp I mentioned in my PL notes. Then the one before last, and so on, until you come to the very first PL note. That way the time stamps I gave you stay the same for you and you find them back easily. Imagine if you start cutting from the first PL note, the time stamps will move forward 1 or 2 seconds each time you cut, so by the time you reach the 5th note or more, the time stamps I gave you will be quite changed. This makes it more difficult for you to find them.
So how to proceed, as an example:
> highlight from 16:42 to 16:43 for example, then press the delete button. And that's it.> from 16:42 to 16:44: (p. 163) between "was living" and "that night
> to make accurate cuts, press the magnifying glass in the top menu, then the Audacity window with the waves will be bigger. I usually from with a window that shows every second in the upper ruler bar. That way I can give accurate time stamps and can also make accurate edits.
If there are any more questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
It's really not difficult, it only needs a bit of practice, you'll see.Sonia
I love to do that myself so it's lovely for me to hear others do it too. Your text is nearly wordperfect, a very good narrative, I very much enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next chapters. I bet the painting is fake 
For the time being you'll get an extension for both sections, pending clarification.
And we can move back again to Readers Found !