Aravis' Blog

I started reading for LibriVox a couple of months ago (in late April 09 I think). LibriVox is an online community with the aim of turning public domain books into human read audiobooks. (Public domain means that the books are not longer under copyright). All of the over 2500 audiobooks available there are read by volunteers from all over the world (and in lots of different languages). The audiobooks are completely free and can be (completely legal) shared, downloaded, distributed…

Click on my LibriVox Catalog Page to see (and of course hear) the odd chapters, the poems, the solos, the duets and character roles I’ve done so far (and all that I plan to do in the near future ;))!

Here is an example of my reading:

The History of a Life by Barry Cornwall

Allerleirauh von den Gebrüdern Grimm

Here I’ll only link my Solo projects and my Duets that are either completed or still in progress:

In Progress:

• [English] Nobody’s boy by Hector Malot: English translation of the famous book “Sans Famille”
• [German] Der Trotzkopf by Emmy von Rhoden: story of a naughty girl who gets sent to boarding school
• [German] Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers von Mark Twain: Kara and I are reading this one as a duet! 😀

Completed:

• [German] Alice’s Abenteuer im Wunderland by Lewis Carroll: German translation of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (Kara and I are reading this as a duet)
• [German] Der kleine Lord by Francis Hodgson Burnett: It’s the German translation of “Little Lord Fauntleroy”
• [German] Der Weihnachtsabend – Eine Geistergeschichte by Charles Dickens: that’s the German translation of the famous “Christmas Carol”
• [English] In the High Valley by Susan Coolidge: 5. part of the “What Katy did” series
• [English]  Clover by Susan Coolidge: 4. part of the “What Katy did” series
• [English] The Snow Queen and other stories by Hans Christian Andersen (Neeru and I are reading this as a duet. We’ve chosen several beloved fairy tales.)
• [English/German] My Very First Little German Book by Anonymus: Kara and I read this as a duet, with Kara doing the English parts and me the German ones.
• [German] Zwei Kindermärchen by Heinrich Hoffmann: It includes “Wie der Struwwelpeter entstand”, “Der  Struwwelpeter” and “König Nussknacker und der arme Reinhold”
• [German] Erzählungen für Kinder by Various: collection of short German stories for children.
• [German] Weihnachtsmärchen für Kinder by Luise Büchner: 9 cute stories leading up to Christmas
• [German] Aladdin by Ludwig Fulda: re-telling of the famous story of Aladdin and the magical lamp in rhymes.

In case you are interested in one of my solo readings (or duets), that are still in progress, you can sign up to be notified. (Just click on the link and you’ll get to the project thread… right on the top underneath the book title you can get signed up).