Tuesdays, as you know, are one thing after another, so cannot wait for tomorrow and the opportunity to listen to this reading/commentary once more. Is perhaps your best to date and that is saying something given the very high standard of those that came before. Extremely moving, very special and a must-listen for anyone who enjoys this story.
If you lived a little closer, I would invite you around to sit with your hand over my heart while I listened to this, how else to explain the very real, forceful impact that this reading and commentary had. It was wonderful to hear this chapter read, as it has been with all the chapters before that you have also done readings for, wonderful to hear the author's words in the author's voice, in other words precisely as you meant them to sound, with pauses, with emphasis, with tone, with rise and fall and so forth, though that said, as I have also commented upon before your readings are surprisingly close to how (can only speak for myself) I read them, which is of course not luck on my part but talent on yours, your ability to put all of those things within your writing, tone, pause, emphasis, so that the rhythm and mood within is easily interpreted. This chapter, when read by you, was much more audibly urgent than I had imagined, the depth was there when I was reading, the windows (may as use the old and trusted expression once again) opening, dozens, along the way, the emotion within so intense that as written in the above comment there was an actual point where I pressed pause, took pause, so as not to start hulking to an extent where hearing the words would become an impossibility, no word of a lie, but it was decidedly slower, my personal reading, and I mention it only for the fact that this is usual, that it differs in this respect, but I Absolutely Loved listening to the reading, hearing the outpouring of thought, of emotion, of remembrance, of longing, of wish, it was in a word, two, absolutely perfect and it heightened an already heightened chapter. Not only do you write beautifully, but there is as much passion, as much depth of feeling, as much sincerity and keenness and every other thing wonderful that has been mentioned hundreds of times of what is so special and admirable about your writing in the reading of your words and in the words spoken in commentary thereto. It is not a case of Em's situation not coming across in your writing exactly as you described it in commentary, to the same extent, but rather that with the commentary added to the reading that was added to the chapter, it was elongated, prolonged and emphasized through exploration. More, and more when it comes to the story is always a very, very welcome occurrence. Exceptionally moving, 20 mins or so later, my heart still contracts to think of her in that room, being able to compare through knowing, remembering, wanting, wishing, needing and yet still she sits alone, I cannot imagine what it must be like to be her, at this moment, being unable to speak, unable to move, her brooch placed in a box, remembering the circle of love, not knowing whether she will live, knowing that if she dies she may very well be alone, exceptionally moving to hear you speak thereof, the closest thereto, the closest to knowing (in a manner of speaking:) what is in Em's heart, what she is seeing. I'm speechless. Not that you would know that of course, wordless, to know how to define this kind of good. Excellent stuff, hope everyone else takes a listen so that we will see a better job of at definition. :-)
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Tuesdays, as you know, are one thing after another, so cannot wait for tomorrow and the opportunity to listen to this reading/commentary once more. Is perhaps your best to date and that is saying something given the very high standard of those that came before. Extremely moving, very special and a must-listen for anyone who enjoys this story.
Sunshine, you are very kind to listen to the audio. Thank you.
you are too cool
Happy Birthday Meleah. :-)
If you lived a little closer, I would invite you around to sit with your hand over my heart while I listened to this, how else to explain the very real, forceful impact that this reading and commentary had. It was wonderful to hear this chapter read, as it has been with all the chapters before that you have also done readings for, wonderful to hear the author's words in the author's voice, in other words precisely as you meant them to sound, with pauses, with emphasis, with tone, with rise and fall and so forth, though that said, as I have also commented upon before your readings are surprisingly close to how (can only speak for myself) I read them, which is of course not luck on my part but talent on yours, your ability to put all of those things within your writing, tone, pause, emphasis, so that the rhythm and mood within is easily interpreted. This chapter, when read by you, was much more audibly urgent than I had imagined, the depth was there when I was reading, the windows (may as use the old and trusted expression once again) opening, dozens, along the way, the emotion within so intense that as written in the above comment there was an actual point where I pressed pause, took pause, so as not to start hulking to an extent where hearing the words would become an impossibility, no word of a lie, but it was decidedly slower, my personal reading, and I mention it only for the fact that this is usual, that it differs in this respect, but I Absolutely Loved listening to the reading, hearing the outpouring of thought, of emotion, of remembrance, of longing, of wish, it was in a word, two, absolutely perfect and it heightened an already heightened chapter. Not only do you write beautifully, but there is as much passion, as much depth of feeling, as much sincerity and keenness and every other thing wonderful that has been mentioned hundreds of times of what is so special and admirable about your writing in the reading of your words and in the words spoken in commentary thereto. It is not a case of Em's situation not coming across in your writing exactly as you described it in commentary, to the same extent, but rather that with the commentary added to the reading that was added to the chapter, it was elongated, prolonged and emphasized through exploration. More, and more when it comes to the story is always a very, very welcome occurrence. Exceptionally moving, 20 mins or so later, my heart still contracts to think of her in that room, being able to compare through knowing, remembering, wanting, wishing, needing and yet still she sits alone, I cannot imagine what it must be like to be her, at this moment, being unable to speak, unable to move, her brooch placed in a box, remembering the circle of love, not knowing whether she will live, knowing that if she dies she may very well be alone, exceptionally moving to hear you speak thereof, the closest thereto, the closest to knowing (in a manner of speaking:) what is in Em's heart, what she is seeing. I'm speechless. Not that you would know that of course, wordless, to know how to define this kind of good. Excellent stuff, hope everyone else takes a listen so that we will see a better job of at definition. :-)
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