It’s time to kick-off another week of fabulous story-telling in Voice, brought to Second Life by the staff and volunteers at the Seanchai Library SL.

As always, all times SLT, and unless otherwise stated, events will be held on the Seanchai Library’s home on Imagination Island.

Monday December 2nd, 19:00: Science Fiction: The Planets Series

With Gyro Muggins.

Tuesday December 3rd, 19:00: Treasure it the Heart of the Tanglewood



Faerie Maven-Pralou continues her reading of Meredith Ann Pierce’s 2001 novel for young adults.

Hannah lives by the fearsome Tanglewood with a few talkative companion animals. She doesn’t age, and she has no memory of anything but this life of isolation. Once a month she plucks the flowers that grow from her head, a painful process in which “each yank made her whole scalp ache”, and brews them into a tea for the wizard who lives deep in the woods.

When Hannah falls in love with one of the many knights who seek the treasure of the book’s title, she starts to question the wizard’s motives, finding he has turned the knight into a fox.

Escaping the wizard’s manipulative grasp, Hannah sets out to find a cure for the knight, an adventure in which she discovers her own identity and the repercussions of some of her actions while under the control of the wizard.

Wednesday December 4th, 19:00: Beggar’s Day, the Beggar Prince

With Caledonia Skytower.

Thursday December 5th, 11:00: Christmas Ghosts: A Collection of Spooky Tales for a Winter’s Eve



Halloween may have come and gone for 2013, but the year’s end tends to be another traditional time for ghost stories to be read. This week, Shandon Loring dips into a collection of classic ghostly tales from the pens of writers past. This delightful volume of short stories comprises:

Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper

The haunted House by Charles Dickens

The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards

The Haunted Man by Bret Harte

Catherine’s Quest by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph: A Story by Katherine Rickford

The Abbot’s Ghost by Louisa May Alcott

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Please check with the Seanchai Library SL’s blog for updates and for additions or changes to the week’s schedule. The featured charity for November and December is Reading is Fundamental.

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