[Missouri-l] Accessibleworld Presents Narrator Suzanne Toren On Books And Beyond, Wednesday, November 3, 2010

[Nancy Lynn]

Newswire:
    On our next Books And Beyond, we will spend an hour withSuzanne 
Toren.Familiar to many of us as a narrator of talking books, she is a stage 
actress too. Known for her facility with languages, Suzanne has a M.A. in 
French. Her ability to speak using various accents comes from her 
background, she says. Her parents were immigrants and most people she grew 
up with spoke with an accent. On the Bard site, you will find one hundred 
titles read by her. Toren has read everything, adventure, mystery, suspense, 
historical fiction, folk tales, biography, religion, and romance. How does 
knowledge of more than one language help in narration? In a career that has 
spanned three decades, Suzanne started reading books distributed by the 
National Library Service. As audio books increased and became more popular 
with the general public, Suzanne started reading for other audio companies. 
How did she make this transition? Is reading for them different and how? 
With nearly a thousand books to her credit, Suzanne loves narrating and 
looks forward to reading for a long time to come. She is a narrator with a 
difference. Versatile and talented, she has read it all. I am pleased she 
will be with us and hope you will come with questions for this talented lady 
who is a huge part of our reading experience. Some infromation about Suzanne 
Toren's work on television and audio companies she has worked for appears 
below.
TELEVISION

Law and Order, Eternal Light, Announcer WNET-TV, Ryan's Hope, As the World 
Turns

 Award-winning audio book narrations for: Library of Congress (over 600 
recorded),Recorded Books, Inc., Time Warner, BBC, Listening Library, Harper 
Audio, Dover Books, Listen & Live, Live Oak Media, et al.

date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.  PDT, 6:00p.m.  MDT, 7:00 p.m. CDT, 8:00 p.m. EDT and
elsewhere in the world Thursday,  1:00 GMT.

Approximately 15 minutes prior to the event start time; go to The Books and
Beyond Room at: http://www.accessibleworld.org.

Enter your first and last names on the sign-in screen. If you are a
first-time user of the Talking Communities online conferencing software,
there is a small, safe software program that you need to download and then
run. A link to the software is available on every entry screen to the
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and open to anyone worldwide having an Internet connection, a computer,
speakers, and a sound card. Those with microphones can interact audibly with
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