CraftLit - Serialized Classic Literature for Busy Book Lovers
CraftLit is—Annotated Audiobooks for Busy People
Love the classics (or wish you did)
*** No time to pick up a book? Not any more! *** This weekly annotated audiobook podcast presents curated classic literature in a serialized format. The host—Heather Ordover—"teaches to the joke" by filling in any relevant tidbits before listening to the next chapter of the book.
*** Callers regularly send in voicemail comments for play on the air to keep the "book club" vibe going. ***
The podcast has been in continuous weekly production since 2006 - Our current book, "Recollections of Joan of Arc" by Mark Twain begins with episode 581.
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As heard on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday | FiberHooligans | Podcast 411 | Marly Bird's Yarn Thing Podcast | Math-4-Knitters | Eddie's Room | Libsyn's Podcasting Luminaries | Chilling Tales for Dark Nights | WEBS podcast
--Classic Audiobooks: because loving great books in a busy world is tough--
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 834
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
31: Chs 2–3 Turn of the Screw
(Apologies although I blathered quite a bit anyway...) This week, chapters 2-3! from Dawn, some victorian pruditry, more wonderful emails from y'all, how to be an ostritch rather than a governess, …
00:47:53 |
Fri 17 Nov 2006
30: Ch 1 Turn of the Screw
Cool things to check out: not to be believed (Thank you !), Check out 's site and then check into ! It's not too late! Then there's (One World, One Cloth), and I ran out of time to talk about from…
01:04:51 |
Tue 14 Nov 2006
CRAFTLIT - START THE TURN OF THE SCREW HERE
Brace yourselves, for this hair-raising journey that will take us to the most haunted corners of a dimly-lit mansion, an isolated countryside estate, a handful of creepy kids, and of course, the clas…
00:04:34 |
Tue 14 Nov 2006
29: Bonus Episode - SOAR
Some good blogs to check out (from SOAR attendees: , , and , oh, and ...I think you know her); a really cool listener's site (Spinneret) regarding ; some pics (scroll down) and some detritus that I n…
00:43:37 |
Sat 04 Nov 2006
28 - Full Disclosure - CraftLit
Sleepy Hollow, part 3! Apologies! The original audio to this show was recorded—I believe—as my mic was dying. I've tried to remaster the hiss out, but couldn't get it all. However, the entire "Lege…
00:56:35 |
Thu 26 Oct 2006
27: An Itch You Just Can't Scratch
Sleepy Hollow, part 2! The entire “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” has been re-recorded and remastered and, along with a few other Halloweenie kinds of stories, . , and why I hate reserchers...well...no…
00:51:38 |
Thu 19 Oct 2006
26: Tarry With Me Awhile and Wait...
| New! | 1-206-350-1642—Call in and leave an audio comment! "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," part 1. Book talk begins at 15:20. Download 26 . | Shownotes | Learn the origins of the name "Tarrytown" as…
00:57:02 |
Thu 12 Oct 2006
25: Beauty and the Beast
Yeah, But it's a Dry Heat, Right? Don't try at home--eye-scraping dry eye! EW! This week! Beauty and the Beast. No, not this one Or this one This one! (sort of...) By the woman with the (that wo…
00:52:07 |
Wed 04 Oct 2006
024: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
This week we listen to by and a little bit of by Norton Juster. Gillman (here she is) is a particular favorite of mine. She wrote Herland which I'm (slowly) reading for Librivox. Great little b…
00:55:30 |
Fri 29 Sep 2006
22: Bierce, Poe, and Poetry
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Second Coming, The Cask of Amontillado
01:02:33 |
Thu 14 Sep 2006
21: Ironic Short Stories
The Lady or the Tiger The Story of an Hour War Prayer
00:48:15 |
Thu 07 Sep 2006
019: chapters 56-59 - Pride and Prejudice
Today, chapters 56-59; THE PAYOFF!
01:03:40 |
Fri 25 Aug 2006
018: chapters 53-55 - Pride and Prejudice
Today, aside from chapters 53-55, we talk about , my love of the word "," (isn't it great?!) and I finally take Amy up on her suggestion weeks and weeks ago! Namely: I just read and really dug , by …
01:04:44 |
Thu 17 Aug 2006
017: chapters 50-52 - Pride and Prejudice
I'm relegated to podcasting from my local coffeehouse again, sorry about that. The ambient noise is MUCH worse than before as this joint has tile floors--a local hazzard. Apologies. I should have DSL…
00:52:53 |
Thu 10 Aug 2006
016: chapters 47-49 - Pride and Prejudice
Chapters 47-49! Next week, I hope I can find my microphone... Well, it's August 3rd, and I'm on the road! Chicago, Sioux Falls, Deadwood and on to LOVELAND COLORADO--home of Interweave Press.Well, i…
00:59:55 |
Thu 03 Aug 2006
15: Chs 44-46 Pride & Prejudice
This week, chapters 44-46! Really! A little OTN moment: I'm working on a , which has only a little section of lace. I've knitted lace before, but this project...well, it was going to be hard enough…
00:58:05 |
Thu 27 Jul 2006
014: chapters 42-44 - Pride and Prejudice
Chapters 42-45! WRONG WRONG WRONG! 43 was much longer than it said on the tag. This week we only have 42-44...but its an hour long episode regardles... Next week, chapters 44-??... Sorry about tha…
01:01:30 |
Thu 20 Jul 2006
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