{"id":414,"date":"2011-05-02T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2011-05-18T19:21:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:21:44","slug":"i-could-have-danced-all-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/i-could-have-danced-all-night\/","title":{"rendered":"I could have danced all night&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two more weeks of rehearsals for My Fair Lady. I&#8217;m feeling pretty confident at this point; nowhere near as panicky as in past musicals (so far I&#8217;ve only woken up with a start at 4am once). The set is pretty much complete (it helps that it was a nice, simple one); most people are off-book; props are pretty much done; I haven&#8217;t been paying much attention to costumes, as I already have mine, but hopefully they&#8217;re close to done too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently finished three more audiobooks. I just finished <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/sense-and-sensibility-by-jane-austen-version-4\/\">Sense and Sensibility<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\">LibriVox<\/a>. I finished a critical edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignatius.com\/IProducts\/77135\/mansfield-park.aspx\">Mansfield Park for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignatius.com\">Ignatius<\/a> about two months ago, but my contact was on maternity leave, so it&#8217;s only just been published. I also published the main text of it (with a bit of editing to make sure it conformed to the absolutely-for-sure-public-domain version on gutenberg) on <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/mansfield-park-by-jane-austen-version-2\/\">LV<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve just finished the second book in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Golden-Casket-Spectres-Chronicles-Valonia\/dp\/1906873119\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2\">Chronicles of Valonia<\/a> series for <a href=\"http:\/\/iambik.com\">Iambik<\/a>. The first two books in the series (The Jewels of Valonia and The Golden Casket and the Spectres of Light) will be released in Iambik&#8217;s first SciFi collection. Will post a link once the collection is published.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started working on Poor Banished Children now; and I&#8217;m about a third of the way through my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sffaudio.com\/?p=24387\">SFFAudio challenge<\/a> book, The Big Time. I&#8217;ve also picked up my poor, neglected Spanish solo, Angelina, again. And now that I&#8217;ve started reading it again, I&#8217;ve remembered why I lost interest in the first place. Although the story is interesting so far, the author doesn&#8217;t seem to have ever heard of the rule in writing, &#8220;don&#8217;t use a big word when a simple one will do&#8221;. His prose is flowery, verbose, long-winded, and simply not meant to be read aloud. He gives me fifty fits every time I sit down to read a chapter. He also spends a lot of time in long descriptions of places and events that have nothing to do with the plot (JRR Tolkien has nothing on this guy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two more weeks of rehearsals for My Fair Lady. I&#8217;m feeling pretty confident at this point; nowhere near as panicky as in past musicals (so far I&#8217;ve only woken up with a start at 4am once). The set is pretty much complete (it helps that it was a nice, simple one); most people are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-librivox","category-public-domain","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}