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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Update: Feb 2022
10/02/2022 Duration: 03minDianne is throwing a party--and we're all invited! Follow to register for a virtual travel show with Holiday Vacations! Come see what fun you can have this Fall on our tour through Ireland. To register, follow this link: then join us on Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 10am Eastern time.
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Twelfth Day of CraftLit
25/12/2021 Duration: 52minOriginally released December 25th, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at The Night After Christmas (1907) By: Ann P.L.Field - From: eText: Read by: Jan MacGillivray - Her Birthday Dream (1916) By: Nellie C. King - From: eText: Christmas Stories And Legends by Phebe A. Curtiss - Read by: Angela (BookAngel7) - A Letter from Santa Claus By: Samuel Clemens From: eText: Read by: Andrew Ordover The Philanthropist's Christmas (1913) By: James Weber Linn - From: The Children's Book of Christmas Stories by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner eText: Read by: Kehinde - T’was the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823) By: Clement Clarke Moore - eText: Read by: Jon Scholes Away in a Manger By: William James Kirkpatrick (1895) - From: eText: Sung by: Karen Savage - CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com Twitter: @CraftLit.com Library: CraftLit.com/library F
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Eleventh Day of CraftLit
24/12/2021 Duration: 42minOriginally released December 14th, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at A Rhyme for Christmas (Publication delayed by the author's determined, but futile attempt to find the rhyme) (1911) By: John Challing (Radcyffe Hall) - From: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII - eText: Read by: Alan Davis Drake - The Errors of Santa Claus (1917) By: Stephen Butler Leacock - From: eText: Frenzied Fiction - Read by: William Coon - To An Old Fogey (Who Contends that Christmas is Played Out) By: Owen Seaman - From: Etext: Modern British Poetry (1920) - Read by: Cori Samuel - Vera's First Christmas Adventure (1907) By: Arnold Bennett - From: The Grim Smile of the Five Towns - eText: Read by: Andy Minter - Here We Come a Wassailing (1850) Traditional English - From: eText: Sung by: Claire Goget - CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com Twitter: @CraftLit.com Library: CraftLit.com/library Faceb
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Tenth Day of CraftLit
23/12/2021 Duration: 31minOriginally released December 23rd, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at Christmas at Red Butte By: Lucy Maud Montgomery - From: eText: Read by: Lynne Thompson - A Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road By: Lucy Maud Montgomery - From: eText: Read by: Read by Jedopi - The First Noel (c. 1823) Traditional English - From: eText: Sung by: Claire Goget - CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com Twitter: @CraftLit.com Library: CraftLit.com/library Facebook: Facebook.com/craftlit Voicemail line: +1-206-350-1642 NEW! YouTube:
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Ninth Day of CraftLit
22/12/2021 Duration: 36minOriginally released December 22nd, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at A Christmas Inspiration By: Lucy Maud Montgomery - From: eText: Read by: Darcia Douglass - A Christmas Mistake By: Lucy Maud Montgomery - From: eText: Read by: TriciaG - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear By: Edmund Hamilton Sears (1875) - From: eText: Sung by: Kristin Hughes - CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com Twitter: @CraftLit.com Library: CraftLit.com/library Facebook: Facebook.com/craftlit Voicemail line: +1-206-350-1642 NEW! YouTube:
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Eighth Day of CraftLit
21/12/2021 Duration: 43minOriginally released December 21st, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at A Conscience Pudding (1904) By: Edith Nesbit - From: eText: Read by: Cori Samuel - Lo, How a Rose Ere Blooming By: Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621) - From: eText: Sung by: Mark F. Smith - & Laurie Anne Walden - Fiona Shaw (Medea) and the show’s director (the FABULOUS) Deborah Warner on a theater chat show: And the whole show as a BBC Radio 3 production: BBC recipe for Christmas Pudding: (share your fave recipe below!) And a version with step-by-step pictures: And the American version, a Claxton Georgia Fruit Cake: CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com Twitter: @CraftLit.com Library: CraftLit.com/library Facebook: Facebook.com/craftlit Voicemail line: +1-206-350-1642 NEW! YouTube:
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Seventh Day of CraftLit
20/12/2021 Duration: 39minOriginally released December 20th, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at The Eve of St. Nicholas By: Elizabeth M. Laws Hibberd / Faith Wynne (1836 - c. 1930) - From: eText: What the Little Bird Told the Christmas Tree (1913) Read by: Ruth Golding - The Thin Santa Claus or The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking (1909) By: Ellis Parker Butler - From: eText: Read by: Several readers Sussex Carol Traditional: From: Etext: Sung by: Kristin Hughes - CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com Twitter: @CraftLit.com Library: CraftLit.com/library Facebook: Facebook.com/craftlit voicemail line: +1-206-350-1642 NEW! YouTube:
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Sixth Day of CraftLit
19/12/2021 Duration: 22minOriginally released December 19th, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at Reginald on Christmas Presents (1904) By: Saki - From: Reginald (1904) - eText: Read by: Bob Gonzalez - Grandmother's Christmas Story (1913) By: Elizabeth M. Laws Hibberd / Faith Wynne (1836 - c. 1930) - / From: eText: What the Little Bird Told the Christmas Tree (1913) Read by: Ruth Golding - Reginald’s Christmas Revel (1904) By: Saki - From: Reginald (1904) - eText: Read by: Bob Gonzalez - Joy to the World Georg Friedrich Händel-https://librivox.org/author/2630 From: https://librivox.org/christmas-carol-collection-2006/ Etext - Sung by: Kim Butler - CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com Twitter: @CraftLit.com Library: CraftLit.com/library Facebook: Facebook.com/craftlit voicemail line: +1-206-350-1642 NEW! YouTube:
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Fifth Day of Craftlit
18/12/2021 Duration: 26minOriginally released December 18th, 2016. The 12 Days Before Christmas begins here: The Snow Man (1902) By: Alfred B. Cooper (1863 - 1936) - From: eText: (interactive) Read by: Garth Burton - Yes Virginia... (1897) By: Francis P. Church - From: eText: Read by: 2Bears - Angels We Have Heard on High By: Traditional, French, translated to English by Bishop James Chadwick - 1813–1882 - From: eText: Sung by: Sunshine Paul - CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com voicemail line: +1-206-350-1642
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Fourth Day of Craftlit
17/12/2021 Duration: 39minOriginally released December 17th, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at The lineup: The Christmas Stocking (1905) By: L Frank Baum - https://librivox.org/author/406 From: https://librivox.org/librivox-2006-christmas-short-works-collection/ eText: http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Text/christmas_stocking.htm Read by: Judy Bieber - https://librivox.org/reader/100 The Shepherd Who Didn't Go (1916) By: Jay T. Stocking https://librivox.org/author/10171 From: https://librivox.org/fireside-christmas-short-stories/ eText: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17770/17770-h/17770-h.htm#Page_135 Read by: Angela (BookAngel7) - https://librivox.org/reader/4323 A Kidnapped Santa Claus (1904) By: L Frank Baum https://librivox.org/author/406 From: https://librivox.org/librivox-2006-christmas-short-works-collection/ eText: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/KidnSant.shtml Read by: Judy Bieber - https://librivox.org/reader/100 (If you love Baum, you might also want to che
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580 - Chapters 37-39 of The Leavenworth Case (End of Book)
17/12/2021 Duration: 01h20minBook Talk @3:50 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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Third Day of Craftlit
16/12/2021 Duration: 46minOriginally released December 16th, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at - by Paul Laurence Dunbar - by Paul Laurence Dunbar - by Paul Laurence Dunbar - by Paul Laurence Dunbar - by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - by Paul Laurence Dunbar Many thanks to our voices: and and and And Franz Gruber's music, sung by
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Second Day of Craftlit
15/12/2021 Duration: 35minOriginally released December 15th, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at The lineup: A Cornish Christmas Play by William Sandys, from Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern,... London, Richard Beckley, 1833 The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert- a story for little soldiers—by Bret Harte Many thanks to our voices I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day sung by And tons of voices on the Cornish Play, put together by Simon Taylor and CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com voicemail line: +1-206-350-1642
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First Day of Craftlit
14/12/2021 Duration: 34minOriginally released December 14th, 2016. All of CraftLit's Christmas episodes can be found at by Anonymous by Hans Christian Anderson - from Literary Lapses, by Stephen Leacock CraftLit Podcast • Annotated Audiobooks | Audiobooks with Benefits CraftLit.com voicemail line: +1-206-350-1642
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579 - Chapters 35-36 of The Leavenworth Case
10/12/2021 Duration: 01h08minBook Talk @6:30 LINKS The Man Who Invented Christmas: History of Paper 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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578 - Chapters 33-34 of The Leavenworth Case
03/12/2021 Duration: 01h39sBook Talk @10:30 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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577 - Chapters 30-32 of The Leavenworth Case
26/11/2021 Duration: 01h32minBook Talk @6:00 Paint & Sketch It's back! Share bookmarks with other CraftLit friends: FOR FB EVENT TUESPlease Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURSPlease Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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576 - Chapters 28-29 of The Leavenworth Case
19/11/2021 Duration: 48minBook Talk @ 4:40 It's back! Share bookmarks with other CraftLit friends: FOR FB EVENT TUESPlease Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURSPlease Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat:
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575 - Chapters 26-27 of The Leavenworth Case
12/11/2021 Duration: 55minIt's back! Share bookmarks with other CraftLit friends: FOR FB EVENT TUESPlease Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE weekly chat: FOR FB EVENT THURSPlease Register here to get the meeting link for the FREE ongoing weekly chat: