Since June began, every Monday we have had a Minnesota Author at the Library sponsored by our Friends Of The Library. I love these events as it is an author event that takes place three miles from my house, and it is a wonderful way to be able to listen to an author and hear about their writing and their books.
Two Mondays ago, June 9th, I missed Rhonda Foch’s, author of Minnesota Lost Town’s Northern Addition because I was at Camp. This Monday I missed Peter Geye, author of The Lighthouse Road because I was speaking instead at the same time for a local volunteer group about the Friends Of The Library, an opportunity I could not pass up… but really wanted to hear Peter. On the bright side, I was able to meet both authors before I ran to my other commitments.
I did manage to pick up both of their books at these events.
SO…. audio book month. I am having a BLAST and I hope you are too! I appreciate all the comments on the audio related posts and I really appreciate those of you who are dabbling in audio for the first time, or trying it again after perhaps unsuccessful attempts previously.
Please remember that all the audio book related posts this months have a giveaway for a $25 gift card to either Amazon or Barnes and Noble. To enter – just comment on the audio posts… one entry per comment. Here is a recap of all the audio book related posts so far:
I began narrating in the fall of 2007, so I’ve been a full-time narrator for almost seven years and have recorded close to 300 books. I have so many beloved projects, including Let Me Stand Alone — the journals of Rachel Corrie, many books of non-fiction by the brilliant Annie Dillard, several wonderful Carlotta Carlyle mysteries, Kate Christensen’s memoir, thrillers by Allison Leotta, science fiction by John Scalzi, young adult fiction by Katherine Paterson, children’s stories like The Wizard of Oz and the Velveteen Rabbit...and more. If you visit TaviaGilbert.com/full-audiography, you’ll see my complete audiobook listing, with my personal favorites highlighted in blue. I’m fortunate to have been given great books to voice throughout my career the years, and have some more fantastic book projects on the horizon.
Five amazing audiobooks? It’s very hard to choose just five, but here’s a list of a few favorite audiobooks!
The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green, narrated by Kate Rudd (young adult)
Kate inhabits this story, which has been such a smash hit in the last couple of years. I couldn’t stop listening to this book, and at the same time I couldn’t bear for it to end. I’ve never listened to an audiobook twice, but this might be the first multiple-listen experience. Kate was exceptional in her performance, fully bringing the characters to life, capturing every bit of wry humor, creating such a nuanced reading that I was absolutely captivated.
Rise & Shine, by Anna Quindlen, narrated by Carol Monda (contemporary fiction)
I love listening to Carol Monda’s narration, and this is a great performance of a compelling story. I’ve told Carol how I feel when she begins a story — I totally and completely trust her. I relax in her masterful presence, because I know that she will not make a wrong turn anywhere along the path. Her pacing is perfect, her characterizations spot on, her dialogue true to life, her heart completely open and her work completely in the moment. I’m a better narrator because I’ve listened to her work.
The Sunday Philosophy Club Series, by Alexander McCall Smith, narrated by Davina Porter (literary fiction/philosophy)
I adore Davina Porter’s narration of Isabel Dalhousie’s stories. Alexander McCall Smith is a captivating, charming, contemplative writer, and this series is just fantastic. Davina creates soulful, heart-felt, fiercely intelligent voice performances — she’s the perfect medium for the compassionate and thoughtful characters Smith writes. This team of writer and voice actor is unparalleled, and I luxuriate in the listening experience.
Call the Midwife, by Jennifer Worth, narrated by Nicola Barber (memoir)
I fell in love with the British television series, Call the Midwife, and later equally delighted in Nicola Barber’s narration of the memoir by Jennifer Worth. Nicola’s characterizations and accents are spot on, and I was riveted by the story. Call the Midwife fans will be pleased to hear story lines that they recognize from the TV show, but those unfamiliar with the series will quickly become devotees of the young British midwives and Catholic sisters whose lives make this a wonderful listen.
The Millennium Trilogy, by Stieg Larsson, narrated by Simon Vance (thriller)
You cannot go wrong with a performance by Simon Vance, and the dark, terrifying, thrilling Swedish series is excellent. Simon is a master story-teller, and he was perfectly cast for this series. His characterizations are never over the top but always differentiated, the suspense horrifying with his subtlety and nuance, the timing and delivery impeccable. These books are not for the faint of heart, but they’re even better with Simon’s performance.
And a bonus question….
And this isn’t a funny narration story, but a sweet one:
Years ago, years after I graduated from Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, one of my most beloved college voice and speech teachers, Stephanie Kallos, left full-time acting and teaching to concentrate on her writing.
Her first novel, Broken For You, was beautifully narrated by Anna Fields, one of the best narrators in the history of audiobooks.
Anna died tragically when she was trapped in her Seattle recording studio during a flood; the loss to the audiobook community was enormous.
When Stevie’s second novel, Sing Them Home, was published, I was very new to the narration art-form, but because it was the novel of a dear friend, I wanted the opportunity to do the project, and I campaigned for it.
Being told that the novel was mine to voice came with a feeling of great responsibility, because I so wanted to make Stevie proud, I wanted to reach the bar that Anna Fields had set, and the story was long and complex and crazy challenging — multiple dialects, Welsh language, and singing, as well as several distinct main characters and about 100 characters in total, including a very young child, and a 100-year-old man — who sang in Welsh!
It was a daunting project then, and it would be a daunting project now, six years and hundreds of books later.
But I had a fantastic director, and we worked very slowly and carefully on the performance, and it won my first Earphones Award.
Most importantly, Stevie loved the work, and I felt that I had, in fact, honored Anna Fields by taking everything I’d learned from listening to countless books she’d narrated, and doing the very best work I was capable of.
Stevie is publishing her third novel next year, and we are both so hopeful that I will be invited to narrate the project. Her writing is extraordinary, and it’s so special voicing a story that someone I love carefully crafted, so I’d be thrilled to work with her again. Our fingers are crossed!
Please watch this site for June audio book related posts. For every post you comment on in June that has this audio book symbol:
I will put you into a drawing for a $25 book certificate for each comment (Barnes and Noble or Amazon – your choice). Winner will be drawn in July.
Hey there! Welcome to It’s Monday, What Are You Reading!
I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme I love to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Fair warning… this meme tends to add to your reading list!
Oh my gosh I am late posting! Remember that procrastination I spoke of earlier today? Well… I just finished up the last of it about 5 minutes ago. With church, Fathers Day lunch with our son, company, cleaning, writing the bee article, chatting with hubby over dinner, and then works out the Friends application for the award…. it literally took ALL DAY.
So let’s get this post going -here is a review of the past week:
I am going to skip what I have going on this week mainly because it is late – and I want to get this posted. There will be more narrator reviews, more audio book reviews and more chances to be entered into the giveaway 🙂
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Susan Powell, A pretty blond young mother in Utah disappeared in December of 2009. Friends and family were baffled with the sudden and complete disappearance of Susan who would never have abandoned her two sons.
The only one who did not seem distressed with her disappearance, was her husband, Josh Powell.
As details unfold those who have not followed this event will be shocked at the level of dysfunction involved within a family that carried beyond the first generation.
Over the next three years, the police and investigators would uncover disturbing evidence involving a loveless marriage, and a father-in-laws obsession with his beautiful daughter in law. Most disturbing of all was Josh’s decision that when his boys were no longer allowed to stay with him, then no one would be allowed to have his sons.
If I Can’t Have You is a powerful and disturbing true retelling of the disappearance of Susan Powell and the eventual murder of her two young sons. It is always hard to put into words what I think of a true crime read. Bizarre, engaging, the human psyche occasionally blows my mind.
True Crime authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris did an amazing recollection of the details of this sad senseless occurrence of not that many years ago. I listened to this on audio and narrator Kevin Pierce handles this difficult subject matter with a professional and appropriate tone.
Readers/listeners of true crime will find If I Can’t Have You to be an accurate retelling of a heartbreaking event of modern time.
Please watch this site for June audio book related posts. For every post you comment on in June that has this audio book symbol:
I will put you into a drawing for a $25 book certificate for each comment (Barnes and Noble or Amazon – your choice). Winner will be drawn in July.
Sunday! Remember that coffee drinking chick above? Well, she is back! BEA is over and the books are put away, the office move is complete, and Friday afternoon I returned from camp. It has been a full 4 weeks of MAJOR ACTIVITY, and now it will be nice to settle into more of a normal routine.
Ahhhhh….
Here are the books that made their way to my door this past week:
Deadlines. I have always been a bit of a procrastinator at heart. I always think things will take less time then they actually do. In my defense (look how defensive I am! 😀 ), many times I am right. I do not plan things out for months in advance and because of that here is where I am today. Literally TODAY.
My deadline for my bee article for Her Voice magazine is today. I have all my notes, I just need to write my 1200 word piece this afternoon. I meant to do this last weekend before camp… it never happened. Instead, as a true procrastinator would… I was working on camp paperwork and print out for camp in the last 48 hours prior to camp. 😳
Also… my deadline to put in for the Grant award from the Minnesota Library Association for best Friends of the Library project in 2013 is… you guessed it…. TODAY. This is where the EEP comes in. I am submitting Wine and Words as our “Yea we kicked book butt!” project. 🙂
Ok that is all. Right now I am procrastinating on getting ready for church. Gotta go… celebrating Fathers Day with our older son coming over for lunch today, and sadly this evening we have a wake to attend for a young man who worked for our company occasionally who was killed on a motorcycle this past week.
Theodore Twombly is a relationships nightmare. He spends his days at his job where he write letters for those who have the inability to write beautiful things to give to their loved ones – ie… anniversary, birthday, romance, break ups, etc… As Theodore is going through a divorce, his evenings are then spent with fast food and a virtual game that he is fully engaged in. Everywhere he goes, everyone is engrossed in themselves through their own conversations with their phones. Talking to other people seems to be a thing of the past.
One day he sees an ad for an artificial intelligence “assistant” who will manage your appointments through your phone and basically make your life easier. Theodore signs up and then goes through a series on prompts including choosing the voice of his new assistant….
Meet Samantha (voice by Scarlett Johansson). Theodore is impressed that Samantha will become more intelligent as she learns what he is like… she picks up on his habits, reads his emails to him and responds to them if he asks, she cleans up old computer files in a snap, reminds him of appointments, and becomes a companion when he is alone or just wants to talk. The more they talk… the more Samantha’s intelligence grows.
As Samantha starts to take over Theodore’s world, they seem to fall in love. Samantha is always there for him, engaging him, prompting him to be better…. what more could Theodore want? As their fondness for each other continues, Samantha finds it harder to accept that she can not be a physical presence in Theodore’s life, wishing she had a body that he could physically touch and that of course, she would be able to touch him as well.
Of course – a relationship with a piece of software is…
complicated.
Theodore’s soon to be ex-wife finds out about Samantha and accuses Theodore of being someone who can not handle real human emotion so of course he would date his computer. Theodore is left conflicted, wanting a physical relationship, yet wanting it to be with Samantha.
My thoughts….
I was never really interested in the movie Her. The previews seemed weird…. yet I have to admit a bit of intrigue mainly because I could actually imagine this really happening. In today’s world of electronic assistants, on-line calendars, and reminders, talking to our phones for information on restaurants, directions, what a word means, etc… really – how far off from this “companionship” could we be?
It was friends telling me the movie was actually good, that brought to renting this movie on a cool evening where I did not want to sit on my deck with my coffee and a book… and so, I watched it.
So….
first up…
what is with the men’s pants?
Seriously? They all had these high wasted “comfy pants” like stretch material. And none of the guys in 2025 are good-looking…NOPE. in fact it looks as though the style has gone backwards and it almost has a seventies feel to it. If this was the choice of men in 2025 my relationship status would be SINGLE.
I am off topic.
The movie held my attention but I by no means loved it. I never “bought” the romance between Theodore and Samantha, and even through what was considered the emotional parts… I never connected with the love for ones phone.
In fact, as the movie ended… I felt that I had more emotions when Tom Hanks lost Wilson in the movie Castaway…
Wilson!!!! Yup…still makes me tear up.
So overall… I am glad I rented this one from Redbox and paid a buck and change to see it rather that an $8.50 movie ticket plus soda and popcorn.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
Did you see Her? What did you think?
Is it freaky crazy to think that this could really be in our future?
Is it freakier still to think that this could happen in present time?
Don’t we already connect to artificial intelligence through video games, and our computers and phones now?
How far off are we from thinking these created voices and people are real to us?
For today’s Saturday Snapshot I thought I would share with you where I have been this past week. I am on a Camp Board for a Camp called Camp Benedict. This camp is an educational camp for those infected and affected by AIDS. The camp is a family camp, which means we have men, women, and children at camp, and we have people who have obtained AIDS through many different ways:
Sex
Needles
Blood transfusions (before they tested blood back in the 80’s)
and yes, children born with AIDS
My connection to this camp and cause stems back 5 years, and you can read about it here. During the year we have a large event and a bike ride to raise money to provide camp for free to those who attend. The camp is the only one like it in a 6 state range.
Anyhoo… here are some of the pics from this past week:
This year was the 20th year of Camp Benedict!
Camp Benedict is an education camp and throughout the week there will be different speakers covering topics like- stigma, health, medications, laws, men’s groups and women’s groups.
We bring in experts on different topics and from different agencies to help answer questions.While the adults are in classes, the kids have their own things going on with Camp K staff. They also have their own classes where they learn about AIDS and about how to be supportive of their parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent, etc…The camp provided meals and snacks.
Of course camp is not all work and study – it is after all… camp. 🙂 From lunch time (noon) to 5:30 (dinner time) is free time and the camp provides water sports, horse back riding, massage, Reiki, pontoon rides, and a trip to the Dairy Queen. Or – you can do as I did… sit in the warm sun read a bit and take a nap 🙂
On the first day of camp we all wrote down words associated with what we thought when we first heard about AIDS. We put those words in a box and on the last evening of camp we burned those words.
On the last night we have a closing ceremony and then we have KARAOKE and a dance for all the campers. It was so fun to watch the little kids!
Our DJ this year was fantastic and she really provided fun things that involved all ages
Friendships are built in that week of camp. Jason has been to camp three times. It’s always great to see old friends and make new ones too!
It is tradition at camp that on the last day as the bus leaves the camp K staff builds a pyramid to wave off the campers.
The close of Camp Benedict 2014.
So why am I a part of this camp? I LOVE what it is doing. I love Connie Statz, the woman who bravely 20 years ago had an idea for a way to support others with AIDS and she ran with her vision and this that I just showed you – is the AMAZING result. I love working with this board of people all striving to encourage, support, and teach. And I love the campers, I enjoy getting to know people throughout the week, listening to their stories and knowing that I am helping to provide a good take-away from them hanging out at this beautiful camp.
Thanks everyone who serves on the Camp Benedict Board and Friends of Camp Benedict. Thanks to the camp staff, and of course to all the campers who travel from all over to have a week at a beautiful camp and hopefully leave with a great experience.
If you would like to support Camp Benedict, here is a link to my support page where I raise funds for the bike ride in August which goes directly to the camp.
Be sure to check out other Saturday Snaphot posts ans see what everyone else is taking pictures of this week 😀
It is no secret that I ♥ LOVE ♥ audio. I know many of you who comment here fall into one of the following categories:
You also LOVE audiobooks (listen whenever and WHEREVER you can)
You have dabbled a bit with audio and occasionally listen (long car rides, etc…)
New to audio… curious about it but no idea where to start, how to choose it,or where to choose…
Been there…tried that.. not for me, but since you are reading this post you will skim what is said here. 😉
Whatever category you fall into, please allow me this indulgence of a little “audio gush”. As I mentioned earlier this month, I am a fairly new audiobook listen around the 3-4 year mark. In that time I have found audio that I have just loved, not wanting it to end, and those are the audio books I want to share with you today – and I want you (audio book listeners) to share with me and the readers here as well so we can build a fun “fortress of audio LOVE” here.
Ready?
Let’s do this!
Ready Player One is one of my all time favorite audio. Wil Wheaton does an amazing job of narration. Seriously, the guy could come over and read me the back of the cereal box and I would be happy 🙂 This guy narrates so well that I have looked up books narrated by him just to get more. (True story!)
Yes -you have a good chance having read these books…or at least you much have seen the movies. Now – I challenge you, try these books on audio for an AMAZING experience! There are two narrators in the audio books of Harry Potter, Jim Dale and Steven Fry are fantastic narrators and I could not recommend one version over the other. Do it. Listen to these books!
R C Brays narration of The Martian is fantastic. I was delightfully surprised when protagonist Mark Watney comes off as a smart witty astronaut in this great novel.
Authors narrating their own books does not always work out ell but Rob Lowe is an exception. He has a wonderfully paced voice of a natural storyteller. I enjoyed both of his memoirs telling of his childhood, his movie career, and his life as an 80’s child star.
Liane Moriarty’s books are fun and in audio – a blast! Read by narrator Caroline Lee – this is another great listen.
Suspense lovers treat yourself to a Dan Drown audio book. Inferno is a wonderful audiobook with narrator Paul Michael.
I could go on and on but I really want you to share with me the top audio books you LOVED. Not only does this add to my audio wish list (picture a candy store but instead it is filled with beautiful shiny colorful mouth watering audio books!), I want to create a list of GREAT audio for all levels of audio lover-listeners- novices – newbies – and dabblists.
According to Sheila…. A Dabblist is one who partakes in the act of dabbling… “Jimmy was quite the dabblist when it came choosing just the right steaks to grill.”
Please share in the comments below the great audiobooks that you would recommend. This post is part of the June giveaway:
Please watch this site (Book Journey) for June audio book related posts. For every post you comment on in June that has this audio book symbol:
I will put you into a drawing for a $25 book certificate for each comment (Barnes and Noble or Amazon – your choice). Winner will be drawn in July.
I’m up. I have been up since 5:44 am, because I thought it was 6:44 am and this is the last day of camp.
Today we will have breakfast together, share a morning session of introducing someone else from camp and what we have learned about them, then we will pack up and at noon, say our good byes.
Camp Benedict 2014 will be officially over.
I will chat a bit more about camp tomorrow with Saturday Snapshot but for now… in my tired state and the bitter-sweet moments of “Yay! I can go back home to my house, my dogs, my husband, and my bed!” to…
“it is over… and now I have to say good-bye to some amazing people whose paths I may or may not cross again.”
In a side topic, it is audiobook month and this week I have really listened to close to nothing. I don’t have a lot of alone time at camp as you can imagine and audio almost always required alone time. 😀 I did have a 10 minute session one afternoon while I was alone in my cabin washing my hair listening to Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood. Narrated by Kate Reading. It is awesome.
As far as other listening to it… it has been crickets, and birds, frogs and laughter, music and silence… and that…
is ok.
Just a reminder:
Please watch this site (Book Journey) for June audio book related posts. For every post you comment on in June that has this audio book symbol:
I will put you into a drawing for a $25 book certificate for each comment (Barnes and Noble or Amazon – your choice). Winner will be drawn in July.
I’m Allyson Johnson, and I took a rather circuitous path to becoming an audiobook narrator. First let me just say that I have always, always loved books! One of my fondest childhood memories is going to the Chicago Public Library with my mother, choosing and checking out books, then taking them home, where I would proceed to read them aloud to my stuffed animals. (As an only child, this was as close as I could get to having someone listen.) So I guess, in a way, I was a narrator from the beginning.
It wasn’t until 7 ½ years ago, however, that I actually incorporated audiobook narration into my career. After moving to New York City with a Psychology degree, I did social work for a number of years, before making a career shift into tv production. It was there that I began doing voice-over work and found a calling, of sorts. After I left television, I started working with a coach, to learn the craft of voice acting, mic technique, etc. This led to work in commercial, promo, and industrial voice-over, which I’ve continued to do for almost two decades. But I longed for opportunities that would expand my skill set…that would allow me to depict characters who didn’t necessarily sound like me.
My first books were Children / YA titles, from early readers like “Corduroy”, to a lovely series about race relations in Depression-era Mississippi, by Mildred D. Taylor. Her “Let the Circle Be Unbroken” remains one of my favorites. I also voice the ongoing Honor Harrington space opera series (a genre that is such fun to record), by David Weber. I recently had the privilege of narrating “Harmony”, a wonderful sci-fi classic by esteemed scenic designer, Marjorie B. Kellogg. And I was honored to be chosen by author Ntozake Shange to read her poetic memoir, “Lost in Language & Sound”.
Allyson… the early years, the die was cast…
When I’m assigned a book, the first thing I do is get out notecards, a pen,and a pencil (some initial choices might need to be erased later). Even in this digital age, I prefer having hard copies of my notes to refer back to. Those cards have come in handy on more than one occasion. You should see the stack I’ve compiled for the Honor series! Next I open a couple of bookmarked dictionaries on my computer. Sometimes I need foreign language dictionaries, in addition to the English ones, depending on where a book is set. You’d be surprised how many words you think you know until you actually look them up! Rule of thumb – if there’s even a chance that you might get it wrong, check the dictionary.
Once I’m all set up, I settle in to read the book. The whole book, from start to finish. It’s important (especially with fiction) to know in advance where the story is going and how the characters develop / interact with one another. I also find it essential to know which characters, besides my protagonist, are going to talk a lot. Because I don’t want to give them voices that I can’t maintain for several hours. And there are many times when an author does not indicate where a character is from, therefore what accent s/he should have, until quite a ways into the story.
A shot from this year’s Audie Awards (L – R: narrator Eva Kaminsky, me, Audible Producer Kat Lambrix, narrator Lauren Fortgang)
My performing background is more musical than anything else. So I’ve always approached narration from that viewpoint. As I prep, I’m hearing the characters speak in my head and taking notes on any vocal traits the author gives me. There is an inherent rhythm to sentence structure, so I’m also marking places where I know I’ll need to breathe, and underlining words that need emphasis. Unlike rehearsing a play or a song, I won’t have the opportunity to go over and over a line (unless I mess it up in the booth…which happens all the time) so I find these little cues save me time. If I stay “in my head” while prepping, I can stay “out of my head” while recording.
If I stay “in my head” while prepping, I can stay “out of my head” while recording.
As I read, I’m marking my script so that I can tell who’s talking before I say the sentence. For me, this generally means writing the first letter or two of their name in the left margin. Some narrators highlight different characters in different colors, but my mind is a little more linear and a little less visual. Occasionally, I mentally yell at authors who have a predilection for creating multiple names that start with the same letter, but overall this system works for me. I like to keep two sets of notes for each book — one with character names, brief descriptions, and vocal choices, another with words and phrases that I need to look up, or ask the author about, later.
Nowadays, you can find many resources online, some with audio pronunciations (a godsend). For instance, there are sites like http://www.dialectsarchive.com/ where you can hear people speak English in a variety of native accents. http://www.forvo.com/ is useful for hearing foreign words spoken by natives. In addition, you can find all sorts of things on YouTube, like the way a “real” person says his or her own name, or how someone from a specific place says the name of a town. And I’m a huge fan of calling a local Chamber of Commerce or Embassy. The folks who work in these places are always friendly and eager to help you get their regionalism right.
Once all of the preliminary prep is done, I go back over my notes and make choices about how I’m going to do each voice. Frequently, I can simply write these down in shorthand. I don’t rehearse them, per se. But for books with lots of characters, I get out my digital recorder and read a few sentences in that person’s voice, so that I can refer to them in the session. With a series, this consistency is particularly important because sometimes you go months or even years between books. However, a listener might be listening to them back-to-back. I prefer to record with an engineer, whenever possible, to have another person’s ears helping me maintain my energy, my accents, and catching those mispronounced words that I was oh-so-sure I knew!
The hardest part of narration? Hmmm…. I guess that would be when there are lots of characters who are the same-sex, same basic age, from the same place, all speaking to one another in a scene. You have to come up with creative ways of distinguishing them, without taking the listener out of the story.
Allyson’s home studio
My favorite part of narrating happens in the booth itself. You know…the part most people assume narration is but that, like most worthwhile endeavors, can only happen after much work has been done. At this point, I get to sit down and do what I love to do best…tell a story. I can stop thinking about the book intellectually and just flow with the prose, living in the characters’ worlds for those blessed hours when I get to leave my own world behind. It is this experience of breathing life into the writer’s words that is the most fulfilling.
I asked Allyson a bonus question, “if she were to write a memoir, who would she want to narrate her story?” To be honest, I’m not sure who I would want to narrate my own memoir, besides…er…the obvious 🙂 I can’t really give you a specific name. But I’d want it to be one of my fellow journeymen…an audiobook narrator who’s had lots of experience recording books, who shares my reverence for the craft and art of making words sing.
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