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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599 - Book Two - Chapter 36 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
15/07/2022 Duration: 32minLINKS Cool story From From Carmen/Jennifer: For Regina -- – From Carmen —did YOU know about that? and their LIVE feed from and and from last week: (for Jennifer) plus From Heather —a lovely short Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman did shortly before he died— CraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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598 - Book Two - Chapters 34-35 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
08/07/2022 Duration: 44minMom’s (Ever-growing) List of fun Mystery Authors (most on Audible): Melinda Mullet CJ Archer Rhys Bowen (Janet Quin-Harkin) Helena Dixon Verity Bright Jacqueline Winspear (Masie Dobbs series) Anna Lee Huber (Verity Kent series) Lynn Messina TE Kinsey Susan Elia MacNeal Lee Strauss Patricia McLinn Sara Rosett CraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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597 - Book Two - Chapters 29-33 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
01/07/2022 Duration: 53minCraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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596 - Book Two - Chapters 26-28 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
24/06/2022 Duration: 48minLINKS: and , the or and (videos of how to use all the goodies) and or BOOK LINKS: CraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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595 - Book Two - Chapters 23-25 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
17/06/2022 Duration: 53minHeather's Etegami: Kunio Koike’s motto: Clumsiness is no problem. Clumsy makes it better. Hahnemühle Watercolor Cards 230gsm Cold Pressed: Réflexions Premier Watercolor Postcard Tin from Jerry’s Artarama: CraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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594 - Book Two - Chapters 21-22 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
10/06/2022 Duration: 44minCraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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593 - Book Two - Chapters 17-20 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
03/06/2022 Duration: 55minLinks for 593 From Carmen From Tracee CraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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592 - Book Two - Chapters 14-16 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
28/05/2022 Duration: 50minCraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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591 - Book Two - Chapters 12-13 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
20/05/2022 Duration: 53minAntique Lap Desk Restoration and Photos! Ann’s Amazing Quilting! Class with Laura Heine () and here’s the CraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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590 - Book Two - Chapters 9-11 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
13/05/2022 Duration: 53minLINKS: and a BOOK LINKS: How’d they get the gold in the standard fabric? - Because the fabric was only a single thickness, the decoration painted on the front showed through to the back. The standard makers overcame this problem by first applying the gold leaf for the lettering and the fleurs de lys to both sides after which then they painted the images only on one side. Actual sheets of thin gold were attached to the fabric by first applying a thin layer of a fatty substance onto the cloth after which the gold leaf was beaten into the fabric. In French this technique is called “appliquées et battues.” and and
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589 - Book Two - Chapters 6-8 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
30/04/2022 Duration: 01h08minLINKS: Usufruct: the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another. The gains granted by usufruct can be clearly seen in the Latin phrase from which the word developed, usus et fructus, which means “use and enjoyment.” Latin speakers condensed that phrase to ususfructus, the term English speakers used as the model for our modern word. Usufruct has been used as a noun for the legal right to use something since the mid-1600s. Any right granted by usufruct ends at a specific point, usually the death of the individual who holds it. CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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588 - Book Two - Chapters 4-5 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
22/04/2022 Duration: 01h03minHappy 16 Years of CraftLit! Battle of the Herrings: Joan’s Family details: Friends and Companions details: The ) that Yolande may have commissioned. CraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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587 - Book Two - Chapters 1-3 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
15/04/2022 Duration: 59minLINKS Reddit art: HumanKind: A Hopeful History Speedweaver video: A Speedweaver: a vintage Speed-weve: and here you can see why I didn’t get : setting up patterns on the Speedweaver: pattern book (Etsy): : and houndstooth: And if you just need your mind blown, Kaketsugi fabric restoration: BOOK LINKS Battle of the Herrings: Joan’s Family details: Friends and Companions details: CraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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586 - Chapters 6-8 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
08/04/2022 Duration: 47minAnijams! LINKS: From Heather's colleague: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach and also Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal among many others Candy: Ten Steps To Nanette by Hannah Gadsby (The memoir from Australia's much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where it went on to achieve critical acclaim.) LeAnn: CJ Cherryh: Chanurr series, Downbelow Station, Merchanter's Luck, Cyteen trilogy. Aimee: Our Flag Means Death: LeAnn's awesome yarn needles: Si: Jessie Gender's YouTube Heather adds: Philosophy Tube: this episode in particular: And HBomberguy’s vaccine thing: BOOK LINKS: Halberds: ("There is the blade for slicing through armor, the spike for thrusting and the hook for was used to take down armed opponents on horseback as they rode by, you could just snag them off. It was like three weapons in one. The
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585 - Chapters 4-5 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
01/04/2022 Duration: 01h03minAniJams! and a sampling of his recent (plus his own ) —Hoping to Build a “Celebrate Recovery” bike so he can ride around and help save & change lives. () (Ukrainian Shop) LeAnn: Master of the Revels: (Book 2 after D.O.D.O. by this author and Neal Stephenson) Aimee: Breneé Brown - Atlas of the Heart on HBO: Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo: and 7-½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: Rebecca: A Far Wilder Magic – by Allison Saft Candy: The Magicians on Netflix and as a novel —Audiobook – Unabridged by Lev Grossman (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator) - Si: “” BOOK LINKS Salic Law: Treaty of Troyes: CraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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584 - Chapter 3 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
25/03/2022 Duration: 40minCraftLit Library PDF: CraftLit Glitch Report Form: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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583 - Chapter 2 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
18/03/2022 Duration: 59minLinks: #71 released an episode with Our Dianne interviewed on it (5:27 min in)!!! More about . (Click near the bottom of the page where you'll see a gray & red Local Station Keyword tab then enter "craftlit" (lowercase) to see details on the Tour. (thank you, LeAnn) From Carmen: From LeAnn—excellent veg cookbooks: and Death is a lovely character in Discworld with (or if you can't get the video, ) which overlaps nicely with Andrew’s latest read: , Todd Rose (goes nicely with and From Heather: and the ! COMFORT AUDIO! - plus - Tracy listened to (a Rincewind novel) + The organized for you. Book Links: Thank you to Carmen for the link to this OSP (Overly Sarcastic Production) focused on (and there's a and a ) via @britannica and an AWESOME ! (You can ALMOST see the Fairies) and a where Aubrey is mentioned. FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoin
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582 - Chapters 0-1 of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
11/03/2022 Duration: 52minCraftLit Library PDF: Medieval Life in War Torn Paris: The Great Schism 01: The Great Schism 02: FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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581 - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Start of Book)
05/03/2022 Duration: 54minBookTalk@ 11:00 Heather's "Conspiracy Board" FOR FB EVENT TUES Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURS Please Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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CRAFTLIT - START PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC HERE
05/03/2022 Duration: 04minGet ready for an adventure that'll make you think, feel, and maybe even shed a tear or two. If you're into cool stories, strong characters, and some deep themes, this book is right up your alley. We'll catch you in the first episode as we dig deep into Joan of Arc's world!