User:Cori

All About Me!

I'm a thirty-something Brit lass, with a Home Counties / slightly Estuary accent. I'm more or less monolingual, though I'm not afraid to try other languages. I have travelled a bit (notably Canada and Australia) but now live in the UK -- and I've been to all-but-one of the LibriVox London Chapter Meetups!

I joined LibriVox in November 2005 and after several months' break in 2006, have been happily contributing ever since. My first recording was: http://librivox.org/the-cow-by-robert-louis-stevenson/ :) Initially, I only read for collaborations / group projects for two years; but since Sept '07, have been recording solos too. On 16th Feb 2007, I became an MC -- though what I do under that label has changed quite a bit. I began by supporting lots of soloists, especially first-time ones (I think that's what inspired me to solo on my own, too!)

Other Notable LibriVoxy Things:

I started the Short Sci-fi Story Collection, and MCed those for a long time.

I edited most acts of A Midsummer Night's Dream. http://librivox.org/a-midsummer-nights-dream-by-william-shakespeare/

I contribute to keeping our FAQ up-to-date.

I've produced 30 Community Podcasts (to date - 28th Mar 10.) http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Librivox_Community_Podcast

Outside LibriVox

I blog occasionally, especially about LibriVox stuff, at [1]. I've made three commercial recordings, available at audible.com/.co.uk. I'm on Twitter and Identi.ca at @coris.

Some inspirational-to-me quotes..?

 The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
 — Samuel Butler

 It is what you read when you don't have to, that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
 — Oscar Wilde

 As the world is not inhabited entirely by specialists, the inference is that books of all kinds, good as well as indifferent,
 lie hidden away in obscure places, waiting the coming of some appreciative explorer who will rescue them from the neglect of
 many years, and restore them to the world from whence they came.
 — J. Herbert Slater from The Romance of Book-Collecting.

 The great composter does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.  Beethoven,
 Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles 
 down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
 — Ernest Newman

 Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. 
 — Aristotle

 I've learned that  people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you 
 made them feel.
 — Maya Angelou