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CraftLit — Annotated Audiobooks for Busy People

Love classic literature…or wish you did?

CraftLit is a weekly podcast featuring classic audiobook chapters paired with entertaining literary commentary that makes great books easier—and more fun—to understand. Host Heather Ordover explains historical references, vocabulary, and cultural context before each chapter so listeners can fully enjoy the story.

Think of it as a global book club for classic literature, perfect for listening while commuting, crafting, walking, or doing chores.

CraftLit has been in continuous weekly production since 2006, making it one of the longest-running literature podcasts. Listeners also send in voicemail comments that keep the show feeling like a lively reading group.

Authors featured include:

• Jane Austen
• Mark Twain
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Mary Shelley
• Wilkie Collins
• Alexandre Dumas
• Robert Louis Stevenson

Recent and current readings include Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford.

Classic audiobooks—because loving great books in a busy world is tough.

Copyright: © (c) 2006-2019 Heather Ordover

Latest Episodes:

CRAFTLIT - START PERSUASION Ep.160 Feb 26, 2010

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Love, romance, societal drama, and a dash of wit so sharp it could slice through butter! Persuasion is the crème de la crème of Jane Austen's works, and we're here to unravel its charm together.

So, get your petticoats and top hats ready, friends! It's time to get Austen-tatious with Persuasion!

CRAFTLIT - END OF FLATLAND HERE Feb 13, 2010

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159: Chs 21-22 — Flatland (End of Book) Feb 13, 2010

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Book chat begins around 11 minutes in. - End of Book!

Yowsa!

Yes, the end of Flatland. End of my romance with math...or my infatuation that turns out to be completely misleading like how that guy was who I dated while I was teaching at the reading school who... um...TMI? Infatuation? Maybe. Because I fooled myself into thinking I could balance my checkbook if I understood Flatland. There is no Transitive Property in my life.

The Lightning Thief (by Rick Riordan)! Read the book...not so much the movie thing...

And that's about it!

Have a great time until I get back with Persuasion (thanks Meg!).

Link to Penelope's pearlicious pattern!

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158: Chs 18-19 — Flatland Feb 07, 2010

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Book talk begins at: 25:45

I conquer Greenland. (And there was much rejoicing…)
Some links: Needle Noodles!
How do I love the Valkyrie? SOoooo much!
Link to Christen Haden's book "Creepy Cute Crochet"; Terry Pratchett's sad speech; "Too Late to Apologize" based on a Timbaland song (see below) and the nifty work of the SoomoPublishing group, and, um… Donnegal Tweed in #809 teal, anyone?

Lyrics to "Too Late…"

Halfway across the globe

And we're standing on new ground

Screaming 'cross the waves

You can't hear a sound

There's no fair trials, no trade, no libertie, no tea

We've colonized America; we won't stand for tyranny,

Oh king And it's too late to apologize

It's too late I said it's too late to apologize

It's too late

We've paid your foolish tax, read the acts

And they just won't do

We want to make it clear, we believe this much is true

All men were created with certain

Unalienable rights

Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit Of happiness

And it's too late to apologize

It's too late I said it's too late to apologize It's too late…

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157: Chs 15-17 — Flatland Jan 31, 2010

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Chapters 15-17 of Flatland! Whoot!

Book talk starts around 12 minutes. Listen to episode 157 audio

Know what a smooth operator is? A sphere! Trust me.

This week's links:

interview with Jasper Fforde (in which he discusses--wait for it--Flatland!!!),
Barknknit podcast promo, Studiographia (my new writing home). proof of my spinniness

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156: Chs 13-14 — Flatland Jan 23, 2010

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Book talk begins at: 22:30

The Encounter begins!!!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...it's raining. And... tornado...ing? How does one say that? We here are unused to your strange terminology and bizarre windy ways.

Some links:

Great TechKnitting blog post with links to lots of great and very smart ideas (expensive sock yarn etc); the latest
TwistCollective Winter 2009 issue;
PopKnits Vintage Knitting Redux with this thick slipper sock;
a very useful (and comprehensive) no-purl garter stitch in the round tutorial;
a link to the Antique Pattern Library;
Craftzine article on how Emboriderer Jenny Hart organizes her work room; FiberRepublic--a EWE-topia of all things knitterly (get it? I didn't make it up--it's hers);
some pretty patterns here in the Petite Purls Winter Issue.
And finally: How do we love thee, Big Bang Theory!!!! Go Flatland!
Karen in Surrey BC: says to checkout the "excellent film version of this story from 1961 called The Innocents with Deborah Kerr." (Warning: SCARY!) And I blew it and owe an apology to Groucho. He's the one who said, "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member" was Groucho.
And Shannon filled me in on another of his zingers for Flatland — Women should be obscene and not heard. Heh.

Listen to 156 audio Book audio by Anita!

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155: Chs 11-12 — Flatland Jan 16, 2010

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We finish the background info to Flatland today (and you thought we were already IN the story, didn't you!) and next episode head into... The Encounter! Da Da Duuuuummmmmmm

Book talk begins at: 21:00 Listen to 154 audio

This week some gluten free fun for you UK travelers and denizens (beer, cider, food, mobile phone 24/7 beer guidance), I wax rhapsodic over the CAMRA guide, find the 3/50 Project (yes!), and knit, knit, spin, and knit.

AH! And I find a speed knitter (like the Yarn Harlot) who actually SHOWS HER TENSIONING! Cool "knit in any language" translator (and one just for Finnish), ANOTHER book by Anahad (my former student), a Harper's Article you might want to pass around, an article about a provocative statement by Harvard's President (it'll make sense when you listen to the episode), funny comic on centripetal force, and our December Incentive Winners: Andrew, Melanie, and Robin!

OH! And I forgot to say: I found an amazing blog post with a spectacular list of podcasts! (Yeah, we're on there too, but there are new ones I've not heard of. V exciting!)

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154: Chs 9-10 — Flatland Jan 01, 2010

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Christmas knitting (nearly) done. Still working on Welsh Heel socks for Auntie, sock yarn hat (for picture scroll down a bit) pattern for the hat here, useful tutorial for Jogless stripes, cool MixTape Zine and MixTapeZine's editor's blog, and nifty attached i-cord tutorial.

And the artwork for chapter 9: And for 154: The Boys Are Back!

A link to their Vampire OpEd, and Plato, Heidegger, and Aristotle (which we didn't talk about) and Daniel Klein's latest fiction, The History of Now.

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153: Chs 7-8 — Flatland Dec 31, 2009

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IMPORTANT: having trouble accessing this episode's audio? Click here to listen.

Christmas knitting (nearly) done. Still working on Welsh Heel socks for Auntie, sock yarn hat (for picture scroll down a bit) pattern for the hat here, useful tutorial for Jogless stripes, cool MixTape Zine and MixTapeZine's editor's blog, and nifty attached i-cord tutorial.

And the artwork for chapter 9: And for 154: The Boys Are Back! A link to their Vampire OpEd, and Plato, Heidegger, and Aristotle (which we didn't talk about) and Daniel Klein's latest fiction, The History of Now.

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152: Ch 6 — Flatland Dec 20, 2009

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Flatland begins at episode 149

Book talk starts at 30 min, fig 1 at 45 min, fig 2 at 47 min, and fig 3 at 50 min. Listen to 152 here

Wedding: Done! (successfully too!) Happy Sister (red) Happy Hub-to-Be (with Uke)

Semester Grades: Done! (mostly successfully)

Anglo-Saxon! On Audio!

Interweave books to check out: 101 Easy Wire Earrings, Sew Liberated, and Enchanted Adornments.

Some MathPhobe books we mentioned: The Number Devil; e=MC²; Gödel, Escher, Bach; Le Ton Beau de Marot; I am a Strange Loop (haven't read it, but it's by the same guy--and I loof him!); Danica McKellar's Kiss My Math.

And, you know...the shawl and pin. Whoo hoo!

Wedding Shawl--blocked

Shawl Pin (sterling silver hammered wire)"

photo of the Sister by Abe Ordover.

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