Heather Ordover

CraftLit

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CraftLit — Annotated Audiobooks for Busy PeopleLove 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 Host Heather Ordover explains historical references, vocabulary, and cultural context before each chapter so listeners can fully enjoy the story.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, ma...

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Heather Ordover

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412: Ch 16 — The Count of Monte Cristo 08.04.2016 1:02:26

Book talk starts at 13:31 Picasso at the Lapin Agile Stendhal Red & Black (affiliate link) Caesar Borgia Pope Clement Pope Alexander VI Real Life Escapees: Duc de Beaufort and Jean-Henri Latude Madame Pompadour's powder *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook...

411: Ch 15 — The Count of Monte Cristo (Parental Advisroy: Skip 8:05-20:20) 01.04.2016 1:15:44

Book talk starts at 13:31 SKIP THIS SECTION if kids are listening 8:05-20:20— Ugolino in Hell Circles of Hell Book of Daniel—book 5—Belshazzar The Writing On The Wall (get it?!) Mene, Mene, Tekel, U'Pharsin Closeup of The Writing: By Rembrandt - www.nationalgallery.org.uk : Home : Info , Public Domain Translation Variations French version: 6:54-7:34 À force de se dire à lui-même, à propos de ses e...

410: Chs 13-14 — The Count of Monte Cristo 25.03.2016 1:25:07

Book talk starts at 18:30 The Oh-So-Cool Telegraph! How the signals work Napoleon's Semaphore Telegraph, BBC article re-creation of a telegraph/tower *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CraftLit/ • Facebook group: https://www.faceboo...

409: Chs 11-12 — The Count of Monte Cristo 18.03.2016 1:16:18

Book talk starts at 13:15 Two Legion of Honor medals with a Grande Aigle • BJ Harrison's Count of Monte Cristo *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CraftLit/ • Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/craftlit • Pinterest: http...

408: Chs 9-10 — The Count of Monte Cristo 12.03.2016 1:05:20

Book talk starts at 13:15 *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CraftLit/ • Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/craftlit • Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/craftlit/ • TikTok podcast: https://www.tiktok.com/@craftlit •...

407: Chs 7-8 — The Count of Monte Cristo 05.03.2016 1:28:45

Book talk starts at 13:40 Freemasons (just in case you wondered) ; and this one Illuminati Confirmed video *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CraftLit/ • Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/craftlit • Pinterest: https://...

406: Ch 6 — The Count of Monte Cristo 27.02.2016 1:12:42

Book talk starts at 20:00 ART VIDEO: https://youtu.be/4bTQv9ESk2c Robespierre Estate General A Very Opinionated run-down of the Girondists and the Jacobins and an interesting blog piece on the French Revolution and how to build a "Spider Diagram" (as opposed to a Venn Diagram) Guillotine Marat Cedant arna togae – cede arms to the gown Aesculapius – Roman god of healing and medicine *CraftLit's Soc...

405: Ch 5 — The Count of Monte Cristo 20.02.2016 1:21:29

Book talk starts at 21:00 By Daniel Vorndran / DXR, CC BY-SA 3.0 , https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31930350 Flying buttress and (ahem) lego piece pic *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CraftLit/ • Facebook group: htt...

404: Chs 3-4 — The Count of Monte Cristo 13.02.2016 1:34:03

Book talk starts at 15:40 Listen to some simple Catalan being spoken How to - clocked stocking Spinning Flax and prepping flax modern demo video and a VIDEO from 1940s!! skip to 4:30 if you want to jump to the flax prep. Axis of Evil - Danglers, Cadreuse, Fernand Newman! Jâ€™accuse John Riley song THANK YOU CANADA! *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel...

403: Chs 1-2 — The Count of Monte Cristo (Start of Book) 06.02.2016 1:06:56

Book talk starts at 16:50 Marseilles and Paris Map Château d'If map . Not a lot of specialized bits today. That will give way soon enough. *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CraftLit/ • Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/group...

402: The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas Prequel) 30.01.2016 45:00

Book talk starts right away Paris Map & for the over-achievers: ChÃ¢teau d'If map . Dumas' family tree quote: "My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends." And for those of you lucky enough to read French: â€œMon pÃ¨re Ã©tait un mulÃ¢tre, mon grand-pÃ¨re Ã©tait un nÃ¨gre et mon arriÃ¨re grand-pÃ¨re un...

CRAFTLIT - START THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO HERE 29.01.2016 4:33

Get ready for an epic ride into the world of the classic masterpiece, The Count of Monte Cristo, packed with everything you could want: revenge, betrayal, redemption, and some seriously intense drama!

CRAFTLIT - END OF SENSE AND SENSIBILITY HERE 16.10.2015 1:09

401: Chs 47-50 — Sense and Sensibility (End of Book) 16.10.2015 1:38:08

*CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CraftLit/ • Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/craftlit • Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/craftlit/ • TikTok podcast: https://www.tiktok.com/@craftlit • Email: heather@craftlit.co...

400th Episode Celebration! 09.10.2015 1:01:50

YORK KNITTERS & DENIZENS OF SURROUNDING AREAS: Meet up with the #CraftLitTour2015 in York on October 14 at 6:30 pm at the Crossed Keys Pub at 34 Goodramgate Penny's GoFundMe site for her service dog - Call in Line - 1-206-350-1642 - Call in and leave an audio comment - Please use SpeakPipe if you are outside of the US - First S&S episode: 378 shownotes | Audio | Nominations | Most Likely t...

399: Chs 45-46 — Sense and Sensibility 25.09.2015 1:11:50

Book talk starts at 16 min • Tintern grounds and a bit of the story • The audiobook of Wolf Hall is second only to Bleak House (the Audible version read by a female/male duo), IMHO. • Austen's Henry VIII quote: *"The Crimes & Cruelties of [Henry VIII], were too numerous to be mentioned, (as this history I trust has fully shewn;) & nothing can be said in his vindication, but that his abolis...

398: Chs 42-44 — Sense and Sensibility 18.09.2015 1:24:14

Book talk starts at 7 min Modern retelling of S&S " The Three Weisman's of Westport" (thank you, Lara) Piquet–rules from the Bicycle card Company, so you know you can trust them Cordials (not just likker) A Rake's Progress CraftLit's new wiki site! and the helper video for how to add to it here *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsle...

397: Chs 40-41 — Sense and Sensibility 11.09.2015 1:03:40

Book talk starts at 6 min It's a lite episode this week on the book-talk front. *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CraftLit/ • Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/craftlit • Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/craftlit/...

396: Chs 38-39 — Sense and Sensibility 28.08.2015 1:06:13

Book talk starts at 10 min *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CraftLit/ • Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/craftlit • Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/craftlit/ • TikTok podcast: https://www.tiktok.com/@craftlit •...

395: Chs 35-37 — Sense and Sensibility 21.08.2015 1:46:26

Book talk starts at 8 min Call in Line - 1-206-350-1642 Call in and leave an audio comment - Please use SpeakPipe if you are outside of the US First S&S episode: 378 shownotes | Audio | Crafty | Beaux Arts style—11:00 New Hope Library's capital campaign —12:00 My Tristram! View original instagram or visit INK361 Julie's treatise on podcasts vs pro-casts (very nicely done, if I do say so myself...

394: Chs 33-34 — Sense and Sensibility 14.08.2015 1:22:54

Book talk starts at 15 min Bill Bryson's book on rooms (Thank you Jeanne — and Sandy)—15:40 Julie's treatise on podcasts vs pro-casts (very nicely done, if I do say so myself!)—16:55 NOT TWAIN! Minus ten points for Ravenclaw I mean Heather. "Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine" comes from Irwin Edman (1896–1954), philosophy prof etc etc. —23:15 Calling cards Bespoke...

393: Chs 31-32 — Sense and Sensibility 24.07.2015 1:44:20

Book talk starts at 17:50 Galavant! Sponging House Meeting to "Defend" at this time (well... Burr/Hamilton's time, but close! ) Loretta Lynn "You Ain't Woman Enough (to take my man)" Gone Girl on paper and at Audible (and my audio of The Cool Girl rant) Amy Schumer + Julia Louis Dreyfus + Tina Fey + Patricia Arquette (not for little ears!) *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.l...

392: Chs 29-30 — Sense and Sensibility 17.07.2015 1:17:19

Book talk starts at 07:00 Mrs Jennings' likely rug work: everything you may ever want to know about rug work in the 19th C. and a glossary A Chariot . A Pretty Yew (English Cedar): Olives, sweetmeats, dried cherries —basically, everything you ever wanted to know about preserves in the 19th C. Lise of Knitting Rose Yarns & Podcast connects vocabulary in Sense & Sensibility to HoneyBadger (...

391: Chs 27-28 — Sense and Sensibility 10.07.2015 1:29:16

Book talk starts at 19:45. Mark Twain's Roughing It and the riding-on-the-mail section What Jane Austen Ate... The City (da da da DUM...) Sideboard Collation Lavender Water (what is) and recipe . (If you have a better recipe, please add the link in the comments or post it at Patreon.com/craftlit for this episode!) Hart's Horn (what is) and use for baking *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here...

390: Chs 25-26 — Sense and Sensibility 26.06.2015 1:31:55

Book talk starts at 25:00. how to write a letter - Regency Style! Check out this awesome doohickey! A 'Wax Jack'! One way to post a letter! And more info on the 2-Penny Post Podcast Listener Since Before Serial by CraftLit* *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook...