Synopsis
***Annotated Audiobooks for Busy Booklovers***Since 2006 CraftLit has released serialized classic literature weeklythe way Dickens did itbut as an audiobook with audio annotations. Host Heather Ordover gives you some context and juicy tidbits before playing the next chapter of the current book. *** Listeners regularly call in to share their thoughts to be played in the next episode, which keeps the "book club" vibe going. *** The podcast has been in continuous production since 2006. Our current book, "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas begins with episode 402. ***Audiobooks-with-Benefits for Busy People*** * As seen in What's Hot on iTunes * * 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 *
Episodes
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556 - Chapters 20 & 21 of Northanger Abbey
08/05/2021 Duration: 01h15minBook Talk@ 8:50 Tip our Wonderful Narrator! Mary Robinette Kowal “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” (winner of the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novelette!) and Her “Jane Austen in a world of magic” series, book 1: Writing Excuses Podcast: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine: Want to vote for the Hugo Awards? Get a “Supporting Membership” and you’ll get ALL the things to read so you can join in the voting fun Marian Call - I’ll Still be a Geek After Nobody Thinks it’s Chic (Nerd Anthem): Oh, Mr. Darcy - The Doubleclicks: Stowaway (Netflix)—Toni Colette and Anna Kendrik: The Wilds (Amazon Prime): Secretly Incredibly Fascinating podcast: Rumford Stove Etching:
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555 - Chapters 18 & 19 of Northanger Abbey
30/04/2021 Duration: 46minBook Talk@ 19:15 Tip our Wonderful Narrator! Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy Detective series book 1 “The Cold Cold Ground” “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman Mary Robinette Kowal “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” (winner of the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novelette!) and Her “Jane Austen in a world of magic” series, book 1: Jennifer is right - how DID I miss her. This is her Bio off of Amazon: Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut duology and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers. She’s a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, and has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. Stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, several Year’s Best anthologies and her collections Word Puppets and Scenting the Dark and Other Stories.As a professional puppeteer and voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), M
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554 - Chapters 16 & 17 of Northanger Abbey
23/04/2021 Duration: 01h01minBook Talk @ 4:40 It's CraftLit-aversary!!! Make sure to drop Heather a big happy congrats for bringing you fifteen years of bookish goodness. Support Our Lovely & Talented Narrator: Maia Daguerre:
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553 - Chapters 14 & 15 of Northanger Abbey
16/04/2021 Duration: 01h07minBook Talk@ 9:40 FACE QUILT!!!! Support Our Lovely & Talented Narrator: Maia Daguerre:
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552 - Chapters 12 & 13 of Northanger Abbey
09/04/2021 Duration: 01h12minBook Talk@ 22:06 Netting Photos!
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551 - Chapters 10 & 11 of Northanger Abbey
02/04/2021 Duration: 01h13minBook Talk @12:50 Check out Argo Summers on #SoundCloud More Aiden music: Abby Cox on what wearing 18th Century clothes for five years taught her —probably the most important thing I’ve learned about how we view women’s bodies Abby Cox explains Corsets: Thursday Night Chat Link:
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550 - Chapters 8 & 9 of Northanger Abbey
05/03/2021 Duration: 54minBook Talk @ 3:40 Support Our Lovely & Talented Narrator: Maia Daguerre
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548 - Chapters 4 & 5 of Northanger Abbey
19/02/2021 Duration: 42minNo notes - have a safe and happy weekend :)
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546 - Chapter 1 Start of Northanger Abbey
05/02/2021 Duration: 01h01minBook Talk @ 26:44 Tuesday Zoom Chat: Thursday Zoom Chat: Bridgerton on IMDB: Northanger Abbey on IMDB: Professor on “Mysteries of Udolpho” Goth Review on the same:
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CRAFTLIT - START NORTHANGER ABBEY HERE
05/02/2021 Duration: 04minGet ready to step into the elegant Regency era of the early 19th century, where wit, romance, and societal intricacies intertwine, offering us a glimpse into the fascinating world of Austen's unique storytelling! If you're into laughs, drama, and a dash of romance, Northanger Abbey is your perfect match. Whether you're a hardcore Austen fan or totally new to her world, we've got you covered with tons of exciting insights and discussions. Trust me, you're gonna love it!
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12 Days of CraftLit - Twelfth Day
25/12/2020 Duration: 01h19minOriginally released December 25, 2017 Twelfth Day… (Find all the days Thank you Librivox.org.) (20 March 1863 – 15 May 1930) was a novelist and playwright, born in Cunningsbury St George, Christ Church, Demerara, British Guyana. In 1894 he published his first novel, At the Gate of Samaria, but he did not achieve real success for another decade, with The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne (1905) and The Beloved Vagabond (1906). Chambers Biographical Dictionary wrote of his "long series of novels and plays which with their charmingly written sentimental themes had such a success during his life in both Britain and America... His plays, some of which were dramatised versions of his novels, were all produced with success on the London Stage Read by: (38:47) http://www.archive.org/download/multilingual_christmas_0912_librivox/09_english_christmasmystery_locke_rg.mp3 (1857 - 1927) was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. A best-selling and prolific author of the Victorian fin de siècle and
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12 Days of CraftLit - Eleventh Day
24/12/2020 Duration: 01h25minOriginally released December 24, 2017 Eleventh Day… (Find all the days Thank you Librivox.org. (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens left school to work in a factory after his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed. Over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, 5 novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social
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12 Days of CraftLit - Tenth Day
23/12/2020 Duration: 01h12minOriginally released December 23, 2017 Tenth Day… (Find all the days Thank you Librivox.org. (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda, and film. Read by: (31:20) Sir Jehosephat (Sir Jee), A Cresage (?) , Whoever Velasquez might be…HA!, Some part of Mr Smith introduction was funny or important, Nelson Column (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story “”, in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. Read by: (27:23) - CUT HE SAID SHE SAIDs ( - ) aside from several books on trains and the history of railways in Britain, evidently, Mr. Grinling didn't do much else of note. Read by: http://www.archive.org/download/christmassho
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12 Days of CraftLit - Ninth Day
22/12/2020 Duration: 33minOriginally released December 22, 2017 Ninth Day… (Find all the days Thank you Librivox.org. (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898) better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies in many parts of the world (including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand) dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life. Read by: (1:17) (19 September 1796 – 6 January 1849) was an English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Read by: (1:17) (c. 1879 - 1937) was a short story writer who in 1933 won a national contest spon
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12 Days of CraftLit - Eighth Day
21/12/2020 Duration: 37minOriginally released December 21, 2017 Eighth Day… (Find all the days Thank you Librivox.org. (c.1841 - 1919) daughter of Henry Morgan-Clifford, a British Liberal Party politician, and wife of the 15th/25th Baron Dunboyne, an Irish peer. She sometimes also wrote under her married name Marion Clifford-Butler. Read by: (23:49) (1864 - 1916) was a journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt and he also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. Read by: (15:10) The old Christmas Carol audio files that can be played on any computer or mp3 player are here: , and 190 , and 191 Read by for A Christmas Carol*in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas by Charles Dickens , , Next Book: January 2018 Scotland June 2108 1-800-826-2266 Final payment 15th of March Put it on your gift list
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12 Days of CraftLit - Seventh Day
20/12/2020 Duration: 41minOriginally released December 20, 2017 Seventh Day… (Find all the days Thank you Librivox.org. () xmas short works 2015 Read by: (2:09) (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If—" (1910). Read by: (3:16) (11 December 1883, Ogden, Utah –22 February 1963, Wadsworth, Kansas) was a soldier in both the British and American armies of World War I, and an author, screenwriter, actor and movie producer. Read
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12 Days of CraftLit - Sixth Day
19/12/2020 Duration: 01h16minOriginally released December 19, 2017 Sixth Day… (Find all the days ) Thank you Librivox.org. And that’s all she wrote! Read by: 6:45 (1867 - 1951) And that’s all we’ve got on her. Read by: Thazit. Read by: (February 22, 1833-August 10, 1906) also known as Sophie May, was an American author of children's fiction. She also wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Towne. Read by: Just a sweet little story of a child’s Christmas dream - 19th Century fan fiction. That's it. Read by: Heather Nada mas. Read by: 13.37 The old Christmas Carol audio files that can be played on any computer or mp3 player are here: 189 and 190 and 191 Read by for A Christmas Carol * in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas by Charles Dickens , Next Book: January 2018 Scotland June 2108 1-800-826-2266 Final payment 15th of March Put it on your gift list - Get for your favorite CraftLit Listener-trip to Scotland
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12 Days of CraftLit - Fifth Day
18/12/2020 Duration: 01h15minOriginally released December 18, 2017 Fifth Day of Craftlit (Find all the days ) Thank you Librivox.org. (September 1, 1849 – October 31, 1927) was an American educator. She was the founder and first president of what is today National Louis University.[1] Harrison was a pioneer in creating professional standards for early childhood teachers and in promoting early childhood education. Read by: Heather Ordover (15 March 1791–9 March 1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father. On completion of his indentures he took up journalism and had an interest in several newspaper speculations, including the Windsor, Slough and Eton Express. from Household Words > Volume II > Page 300 December 21, 1850 (to “turn the page”, look in the upper right for the ‘previous page’ ‘next page’) Read by: The Recipe from the story: A Pound Christmas Pudding: * One pound raisins one pound currants one pound () one pound bread-crumbs quarter p