I have been neglecting you shamefully, I am dreadfully sorry, but here is a new chapter of Betsy!

It's time for Chapter 7!  Let's see, probably by next week Anne of Avonlea and The Story Girl, collaborations that I participated in, will be finished, and Wind in the Willows the week after that.  And I just leaped in with both feet to play The Pirate King in a collaboration of Pirates of Penzance.  You can listen to my audition here, if you like!

So, no podcast last week, because I am bad and uncaring, and also exhausted and never home, but by golly, you're getting a new Betsy chapter if it kills me!  Which it didn't, quite. 

Proper podcast on Friday, lots of good stories to tell, cross my heart!

Here, after a two week break, is the next chapter of Understood Betsy!  At last!  You have all been patient and good, so here is your reward.

Two more collaborations that I participated in are Barbara Frietchie and Richard Cory, the latter being about my favourite poem of all time, and the former actually appearing in this week's Betsy chapter!  Which is very fitting, I think.

Of course, because of the holiday Monday, I have been a day off all week, which is why Chapter 4 didn't go up yesterday.  Sorry to disappoint, all you Understood Betsy fans!  But here it is, Chapter 4.  I honestly don't know whether there will be a chapter next week, as I am crazy busy until the 11th, 13 hour days being the short ones.  So I think let's just say that Chapter 5 will go up on the 14th of June, and next week I'll be lucky if I have the time or energy for my regular podcast!

Two more additions to the Librivox catalogue that include recordings of mine are Daddy-Long-Legs and last week's Weekly Poetry Project,  Embankment at Night Before the War - Outcasts by D.H. Lawrence.

Here is Chapter 3 of Betsy.  There isn't a lot to say other than that! 

If you are interested in audio books, the two first complete ones that I have participated in for Librivox are available for download, The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper and A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Also, I participated in last week's Weekly Poetry Project, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth.

 

Hello you audio book fans, and I know there's a few of you out there: this is for you, and just for you, because I care.  What will happen to Betsy next?

Hey there, I know that my second podcast is due tomorrow, but I thought that I would do something extra.

I record audio books for LibriVox (and so can you, if you want to!) and I am currently doing a solo project of Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield.  I recorded chapter one last week, and I am going to do a chapter a week minus the two weeks that I am working the French, so why not put them up here?  They won't be to everyone's taste, but people who like being read to and like children's books should enjoy it.

So here is Chapter One, and thanks to Betsie, from whom I snagged the Librivox image.