Here’s the 9th episode of “Kayray Reads to You”: The Saturdays, Chapter 8:
The Saturdays: Saturday Eight (30:04)
Oh, it’s the last chapter already, darn it. The beginning of a wonderful summer (plus the introduction to the book).
(Love the story? Buy the book!) http://www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0805070605
Here’s the 8th episode of “Kayray Reads to You”: The Saturdays, Chapter 7:
The Saturdays: Saturday Seven (24:55)
Tea with Mrs Oliphant!
(Love the story? Buy the book!) http://www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0805070605
Here’s the 7th episode of “Kayray Reads to You”: The Saturdays, Chapter 6:
The Saturdays: Saturday Six (29:21)
A picnic in Central Park, and what happened afterwards…
(Love the story? Buy the book!) http://www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0805070605
Here’s the 6th episode of “Kayray Reads to You”, Chapter 5:
The Saturdays: Saturday Five (21:51)
Oliver’s startling and adventurous Saturday.
(Love the story? Buy the book!) http://www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0805070605
Here’s the 5th episode of “Kayray Reads to You”, the second half of Chapter 4:
The Saturdays: Saturday Four part 2 (22:28)
The rest of Mona’s Saturday.
(Love the story? Buy the book!) http://www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0805070605
On Tuesday, I bought a really nice, nearly-new, green La-Z-Boy recliner for Dan from Craigslist and Chloe drove me to pick it up in her van, and then Henry and I hung out at her house for a while so Bob could help Henry learn some tunes to play with the band. Oh, and Dan loves his chair. Happy early birthday, Dan! :)
Then yesterday Henry and I did some good decluttering in the livingroom. I got rid of a ton of old outgrown homeschool materials, which cleared off two shelves, and then Henry organized the DVDs on those shelves so they’re not in a horrible useless pile anymore.
Yesterday evening we picked up Henry’s friend John and went to the Rockola gig at Tango del Rey, which was great fun as usual! Got home at midnight and went right to bed but then I woke up at 6 this morning for no reason at all, grrrrrr. So I’m going to bake some cookies and then go back to bed.
Here’s the 4th episode of “Kayray Reads to You”. Chapter 4 is longish, so I’ve divided it in two. Here’s the first half:
The Saturdays: Saturday Four part 1 (27:17)
In which Mona finds something to do on her Saturday.
(Love the story? Buy the book!) http://www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0805070605
Here’s the 3rd episode of “Kayray Reads to You”:
The Saturdays: Saturday Three (30:20)
In which Rush hears a Wagner opera and brings something nice home with him.
(Love the story? Buy the book!) http://www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0805070605
Here’s the second episode of “Kayray Reads to You”:
The Saturdays: Saturday Two (46:11)
In which Randy goes out to look at French paintings for her very first Saturday adventure and meets a very interesting person.
(Love the story? Buy the book!) http://www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0805070605
I’m starting a new podcast, “Kayray Reads to You”, in which I will read aloud from some of my very favorite kids’ books, starting off with Elizabeth Enright’s wonderful “The Saturdays”.
Here’s the feed: http://kayray.org/audiobooks/kayray_reads.xml
Or click here to view in iTunes.
I prefer reading to editing so, since I am not making audiobooks here, these podcast episodes will be mostly unedited. If the cat starts yowling, well, you’ll hear her yowl! Here’s the first chapter. Enjoy!
The Saturdays: Saturday One (22:32)
The four Melendy family books, of which this is the first, have recently been reprinted in beautiful hardback editions. I suggest you pick up all four before they go out of print again.
http://www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Elizabeth-Enright/dp/0805070605
While I was recording Alice in Wonderland, I got to thinking that although I know a couple of the original poems (e.g. ‘Tis the Voice of the Sluggard) that the author parodied, I didn’t know them all. And that most kids today probably don’t know any other than Twinkle Twinkle (and maybe not even that one). So I started searching around for information on the original poems and bumped into a great article in a periodical called The Bookman, Vol. 18, September 1903.
Here’s a link to the article on google books:
http://is.gd/aIufD
I also recorded the article and submitted it to the current Short Non-Fiction Collection at LibriVox: http://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-016/
And here’s my little recording; it’s only about 14 minutes long.
The Poems in “Alice in Wonderland”, by Florence Milner
My recording of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is all done. I’ll be adding it to my podcast feed, but if you want to hear it right now, here it is:
http://librivox.org/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-by-lewis-carroll-4/
(As always, all LibriVox audiobooks are in the public domain and free to download, share, remix, whatever.)
This was so fun and easy that I got it done in record time.
