Happy Christmas!
Dec. 25th, 2011 02:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thalialunacy2
For you, my f'list, my livejournal lurkers, and the internet at large, here is a gift. Completely unauthorized, but also not for profit: me reading one of my favorite books of all time.
by Barbara Robinson
chapter 1 | chapter 2 | chapter 3 | chapter 4 | chapter 5 | chapter 6 | chapter 7
(Or, here's a zip file of the whole thing, 71 minutes total.)
From the grape juice for communion to the preacher's son always hating being Joseph to the burned applesauce cake, this book is near and dear to my childhood. You can either listen and connect to it as you relive your own, or listen and understand me--and a very large sect of American culture--a little bit more. Yes, it's religious, but you can ignore that if you want, or enjoy it if you want. Bottom line, it's effing hilarious. ('SHAZAM!')
Recording it was quite an experience. I laughed so hard I cried, more than once. And then at the end I just... cried.
HEY. UNTO YOU A CHILD IS BORN.
♥
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Date: 2011-12-25 04:03 pm (UTC)♥
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Date: 2012-01-05 06:25 am (UTC)This is all thanks to you, btw - because of you, I have a copy of the book from which I could read. :D <333
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Date: 2011-12-25 09:25 pm (UTC)heathengusto! :D Merry Christmas!no subject
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Date: 2011-12-26 04:47 pm (UTC)And one more thing: Librivox. Volunteers record audio books of public domain works and make them freely available. Anything from novels to plays to short fiction and poetry. There are certain technical standards they require for the final mp3 files, but those are not hard to achieve. I did a few things for them about a year ago, and couldn't continue because I couldn't get enough uninterrupted, background-noise-free time with everything going on with my stepdad. I think I might just order myself the new microphone I wanted and get back into it.
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Date: 2012-01-05 07:18 am (UTC)That's a pretty cool link! Thanks for showing it to me. :)
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Date: 2013-02-01 12:48 am (UTC)I FOUND YOU VIA 'ACKLES' ELEVEN', AND NOW I WILL NOW LOVE YOU FOREVER FOR DOING THIS.
FROM ONE READER TO ANOTHER: ♥ .
(Goodness, now you'll have to do 'The
WorstBest School Year Ever', too! Or I'll have to go back and hunt it down in the attic, haha).Thank you so much!
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Date: 2013-02-03 12:12 am (UTC)<3