No more Armand!
I finished El Dorado yesterday! Woohoo! No more wanting to smack Armand! 
It really did end up being a very good book, once I got past those beginning chapters where he was being such a goose, and once the action moved onto the other characters. I’ve decided that one reason I was so annoyed with Armand was that Orczy changed him so much from the first book to this one. In that, he was the responsible elder brother, who had looked after his little sister from the time their parents died, and was completely devoted to the Scarlet Pimpernel’s cause. In this book she made him younger than Marguerite and completely reckless and foolish.
And I have two chapters left of A Little Princess, so I should be done with that this weekend. Now I need to find something new to read. I am still working on Pride and Prejudice, but when I started it, I didn’t realize there was another solo version in progress. It had been semi-abandoned, but it started back up this week. As it’s a newer reader, I don’t want them to feel like I’m infringing on their territory, so I’d rather not take P&P public just now. My plan is to keep working on it, but I need something else for my public project. I’m thinking of, perhaps, some more Nesbit, another Anne book, or maybe the first Katy Did book. But I haven’t decided yet.
I finally got my invite to Ravelry yesterday. I spent part of today adding completed projects to my page. I don’t know how much I’ll use it for organization, but it’s a great place to get new ideas!
September 24th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Hello,
I just finished listening to the Scarlet Pimpernel this afternoon and loved every second of it. Thank you very much for all the care and emotion you put into your fine reading — and for this sequel, which I’m downloading this very minute! I had read the first book at some point, but I’ve never read the second, so I’m looking forwards to it very much.
September 25th, 2007 at 13:33 pm
I vote for Anne of Windy Poplars!
September 25th, 2007 at 15:13 pm
Liana, I had never read beyond the first book before this either, but, from references in this book, it would seem that it’s at least the third in the series.
Emily, unfortunately, Anne of Windy Poplars is not in the public domain in the U.S., so it’s not something I can do for LibriVox.