I enjoy reading books and I usually have a few on the go. They are typically non-fiction, but sometimes a novel. I also like to write about what I read (of which you can find examples of throughout my blog).
Towards the end of 2019 I found myself recording myself reading various short stories; these, and more, I have uploaded to either SoundCloud or Youtube. I continue this effort in 2020 with the intention uploading something every Saturday:
15 February – 28 March 2020
Night 53-61 of One Thousand and One Nights
53: https://youtu.be/6bSc2MvN6Pg (14:15)
54: https://youtu.be/4WBEXTrNHbE (7:31)
55: https://youtu.be/eKIu54H5PQU (14:09)
56: https://youtu.be/WA5ySmrLMl8 (8:44)
57: https://youtu.be/waPlkDZeG8I (6:18)
58: https://youtu.be/voIF2NQbxTs (7:07)
59-61: https://youtu.be/rn7XvcoUY_M (20:41)
8 February 2020
On the Way or All Aboard! by Claude Williamson
https://youtu.be/5cBENvEvBPU
42:46
1 February 2020
The Book of Zechariah 12-14
https://youtu.be/T8MPviXsAdU
10:34
25 January 2020
‘Cagliari’ by Hilaire Belloc
https://youtu.be/R7q-iOEkiMk
7:53
18 January 2020
The Story of Brave Grizel Hume
https://youtu.be/6U3zVCHaCu8
9:10
11 January 2020
The Tricks Of Scapin
https://youtu.be/QiFvsbuIdcc
5:42
The Lad Who Slept At His Post
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/brian-reads-the-lad-who-slept-at-his-post
2:09
4 January 2020
The Original Robinson Crusoe
https://youtu.be/maDflaM-gqw
16:03
Related post: https://bmhonline.wordpress.com/…/being-a-robinson-crusoe/
29 Dec 2019
Apocalyptic Scenario 1.a
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/apocalyptic-scenario-1a
3:40
Read by request from: https://davecline.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/apocalyptic-scenario-1-a
28 Dec 2019
A Christmas Story by Charles Dickens: The Child’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YD7A_VYGus
9:47
27 Dec 2019
A Christmas Story by Charles Dickens: The Poor Relation’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ2QuZjvB54
25:59
Related post: https://bmhonline.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/christmas-with-dickens
5 Dec 2019
The following were read from Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia, Volume 7, page 5087-8. Related post: https://bmhonline.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/story-time-november
The Strangers At The Door
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/the-strangers-at-the-door
5:53
The Race From Marathon
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/the-race-from-marathon
3:24
How Rustem Met His Son
9:11
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/how-rustem-met-his-son
Jack Frost Opens The Chestnut Burrs
2:04
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/jack-frost-opens-the-chestnut-burrs
Mother Nature’s Spring Helpers
2:16
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/mother-natures-spring-helpers
I intend to record more readings throughout 2020. You can support my efforts here:
Brian’s 2020 Reading Pile:
The Children’s Encyclopedia by Arthur Mee:
I’ve owned a 10 volume set of these old encyclopdias since my childhood, but had never read them, so I thought I would read one volume a year. For 2020 I have the target of working my way through Volume 8, reading 1/12th of the volume each month.
The Great Arab Conquests by John Bagot Glubb
Great True Stories of The Islands by Claude Williamson
The Vikings by Jonathan Clements
The Only Planet of Choice (re-reading)
Only a Piece of Glass by Nan Blake
Invisible College by Robert Lomas (re-reading)
Take a Seat by Dominic Gill
