Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia. Historical Novel Society Conference this weekend. I’ll be at the Historical Novel Society conference this weekend in St.
Petersburg, Fl. –where I will, among other things, be Mistress of Ceremonies at the Saturday Late-Night Sex-Scene Readings. [g] Now, in previous years, we had only a half-dozen or so hardy souls willing to get up and read their naughty scenes in front of the banquet audience…but _this_ year, we had more than forty volunteers! (Must be the influence of the Fifty Shades books, I suppose. I could only take a few of the willing applicants, because you really can’t expect people to sit through more than an hour of sex scenes, no matter how well written…but how to choose? Well, basically, I took the two men who volunteered, because it’s hard to find men who will do that Several bold writers accepted this offer FOR THE MOMENT, though–here’s a brief taste of the less-rowdy side of the conference, with a Q&A I did with Jenny Barden (last year’s HNS organizer, and a brilliant job she did, too!) JB: Will is a maverick.
Recherche - #bookpuns. Open Library. …collecting retro book covers from the 60's 70's 80's and 90's. Blog: How to create audio book from any ebook. English is not my native language.
However it was my first language in school. All it means is that I am little slow while reading English. And hence I prefer audio books. There are many other benefits of audio books (like listening while driving etc) but I mainly use them to read out the book in front of me, for me. This speeds up the reading and also allows me to highlight important sections in the book (either hard copy or ebook). However not all books come with audio book version. I found a generic way to generate audio book for any ebook. First, you need a good text to speech (TTS) converter software. Next, you need a good voice that would sound as natural as possible. Now open any ebook in TextAloud or simply copy-paste the entire book into the TextAloud.
Make sure no garbage text is present. For me, a PDF of 3.5 MB had text of around 750 KB. While testing the audio book generated, I completed two chapters of the book! Shakespeare Insult Kit. Shakespeare Insult Kit Since 1996, the origin of this kit was listed as anonymous.
It came to me on a piece of paper in the 90's with no attribution, and I thought it would make a cool web page. Though I searched for the origin, I could never find it. In 2014, Lara M informed found the originating author. It appears to be an English teacher at Center Grove High School in Greenwood Indiana named Jerry Maguire. Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou": My additions: cullionly whoreson knave fusty malmsey-nosed blind-worm caluminous rampallian popinjay wimpled lily-livered scullian burly-boned scurvy-valiant jolt-head misbegotten brazen-faced malcontent odiferous unwash'd devil-monk poisonous bunch-back'd toad fishified leaden-footed rascal Wart-necked muddy-mettled Basket-Cockle pigeon-liver'd scale-sided Back to the insulter.
Chris Seidel.