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Posthuma

Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, Whatever on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Last weekend I’ve recorded another German short story called “Posthuma” by Theodor Storm. He is one of the best German authors in my opinion… I just wish that his stories weren’t quite so sad. But perhaps I just manage to pick out the sad ones… who knows. The story is about a grave being left [...]

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Woes of knitting a hat

Posted in knitting, personal, self made..., Whatever on March 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Yet another quickie post to show off my latest knitting project. OMG, you won’t believe how many nerves this thing cost me. What you see here acutally is the third attempt… the first one got bucket shaped, pulled it apart (forgot to take a pic… was too frustrated). The second one got baby sized, pulled [...]

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Wenn die Äpfel reif sind (When the apples are ripe)

Posted in audio, LibriVox, Whatever on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Just a quick post in order to test my new wordpress space upgrade. Today I recorded a short novella in German called “Wenn die Äpfel reif sind” by Theodor Storm. (Roughly translated the story title is as follows “When the apples are ripe”) It is a story about a boy trying to steal apples and [...]

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Covers for “In the High Valley” & “Der kleine Lord”

Posted in art, audio, Books, LibriVox, Whatever on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My two solo projects now have really beautiful CD Covers. Neeru created the one for my very first solo of “In the High Valley” by Susan Coolidge… …and Hokuspokus did the one for “Der kleine Lord” by Frances H. Burnett. Aren’t they just lovely? Thanks so much you two! Oh, btw. clicking on the pics [...]

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The House of Arden

Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Recently another of my BCing projects got cataloged. It’s Edith Nesbit’s wonderful “House of Arden” which is the first book of the House of Arden series. Here is a short summary (Meg and I were struggling with it for days, while it took Neeru about 5 mins to come up with this beautiful one. ) [...]

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Falling leaves

Posted in Books, Review, Whatever on March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I recenlty came across the book “Falling leaves” by Adeline Yen Mah, when cleaning out my bookshelf. As this book used to be one of my favorites, the “tidying mission” was of course immediately abandoned and I started to read. I won’t post a summary here, though I guess I must mention that the book [...]

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