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 Host Heather Ordover explains historical references, vocabulary, and cultural context before each chapter so listeners can fully enjoy the story.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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389: Ch 23-24 — Sense and Sensibility 19.06.2015 1:11:34

Book talk starts at 08:05. National Domestic Violence Hotline resource page Casino: video how , written how to Quilling: video how to , [written how to](quilling tutorial for beginners) Quilling - The Art of Paper Filigree video Tallow Candles: Tallow , tallow candles , how to Wax/Spermaceti Candles: the oil and where it comes from , how they made them—during the US Colonial times, anyway *CraftLi...

388: Chs 21-22 — Sense and Sensibility 05.06.2015 1:11:31

Book talk starts at 1:25. *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 •...

387: Chs 19-20 — Sense and Sensibility 29.05.2015 1:28:27

Book talk starts at 11:25. Columella *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/@...

386: Chs 17-18 — Sense and Sensibility 22.05.2015 1:08:23

Book talk starts at 11:25. Blaise Castle: Then: Now: Mysteries of Udolpho Tinterm By Turner (1794) Victorian Claude Glass CLAUDE GLASS TINTERN Tintern Live stream (maybe) Saved sun up to sun down Quicktime Video of the same: Tintern Time-lapse site Full Size Tintern pic Map of River Wye scenic stops with Claude Glass examples (slideshow at the bottom) CBC Programme pic: DIY Claude Glass Dr Syntax...

385: Chs 15-16 — Sense and Sensibility 15.05.2015 1:12:24

Book talk starts at 05:50 *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 •...

384: Chs 13-14 — Sense and Sensibility 08.05.2015 1:07:13

Book talk starts at 10:26 *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 •...

383: Chs 11-12 — Sense and Sensibility 01.05.2015 1:04:16

Book talk starts at 09:10. Women and Time article *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...

382: Chs 9-10 — Sense and Sensibility 24.04.2015 1:21:45

Book talk starts at 09:52. *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 •...

381: Chs 7-8 — Sense and Sensibility 17.04.2015 59:45

Book talk starts at 13:51. knot a knight - 14:01 Renee and Jane, Cassandra, Cottages, and (ahem) Fanny - 15:03 Litographs for Sense and Sensibility! - 54:04 Brontë Parsonage *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 gr...

380: Chs 5–6 — Sense & Sensibility 10.04.2015 54:47

Book talk starts at 14:00. Dixie on Tempered Steel - 14:45 Devonshire PianoForte *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...

379: Chs 3–4 — Sense & Sensibility 03.04.2015 1:21:22

Book talk starts at 21:40. Cottage Tales books Penelope Wilton Barouche ignominious approbation Medieval Humours Christian Humanist Podcast: Ghostbusters William Cowper *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:...

378: Chs 1–2 — Sense & Sensibility (Start of Book) 27.03.2015 59:20

Book talk starts right after housekeeping. *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...

CRAFTLIT - START SENSE AND SENSIBILITY HERE 27.03.2015 4:33

Take on a whirlwind journey through the lives of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. One's all about sense, the other all about sensibility, and together they make quite the dynamic duo. So, if you're ready to laugh, cry, and fall head over heels for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, then you've come to the right place!

Post-Herland Bonus — CraftLit: Audiobooks with Benefits for Busy People 13.03.2015 35:43

| Call-in Line | 1-206-350-1642 Call in and leave an audio comment! How to call from outside of the US. | Upcoming Book | Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Your book talk IS this episode. The first Herland episode is 336 . Sense and Sensibility begins in late March 2015. If the iTunes feed ever goes down, please head over to the Libsyn site , the Premium Member Audio stream can be found here a...

CRAFTLIT - END OF HERLAND HERE 28.02.2015 1:14

377: Ch 12 — Herland (End of Book) 28.02.2015 1:32:06

| BOOK TALK | 5:50 min | Chapter 12 - End of Book Our Next book: Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon and her link on Gutenberg Sir Almroth Wright and his link on Gutenberg (what a joy he is!) Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Lonliness *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebo...

376: Ch 11 — Herland 21.02.2015 1:07:52

| BOOK TALK | 17:00 min | Chapter 11 Wensleydale Creamery and the Wallace and Gromit connection , (and more places the cheese has shown up ). *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/gr...

375B: Ch 10 — Herland 14.02.2015 47:23

*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...

375: Ch 10 — Herland 14.02.2015 1:20:27

| BOOK TALK | 18:40 min | Chapter 10 Listen to Gulliver's Travels at CraftLit. Elmer Gantry Tu Quoque logical fallacy *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 • Pinteres...

374: Ch 9 — Herland 07.02.2015 1:15:12

| BOOK TALK | 4:00 min | The Impressive Montessori Progenitor CraftLit's "Yellow Wallpaper" episode Tuskegee Vaccination link from Lise Literary Web Series Master List Mary Edwards Walker *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/...

373: Ch 8 — Herland 31.01.2015 1:19:28

| BOOK TALK | 15:10 min | A Huguenot in luuuuve The Gina Davis Institute and the video I mentioned Women talking to other women in movies: the Bechdel test Larry Wilmore's "The Nightly Show" clip Tuskeegee Syphilis horror *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.com • Facebook:...

372B: Theater of War — CraftLit Bonus 29.01.2015 1:49:11

The Theater of War's website , in case you want a look-see and the GoFundMe site of an actual soldier who is facing actual medical problems after decades of service. If you would like to help, please go here, spread the word, and donate if you can. * *Disclosure: this is the family of a long-time listener and Defarge designer.

CraftLit Bonus: On Serial 27.01.2015 20:07

You can find Serial here, Startup here , the adorable video with Ira Glass and Mary here , The Spinal Column Radio Podcast (now podfaded) here , Today in iOS here , Knitmore Girls here , Elsie's Yoga Kula here , Chop Bard here , and CraftLit here . You can contact Apple iTunes here and Stitcher Radio here . Share on Twitter .

372: Ch 7 — Herland 24.01.2015 1:14:38

| BOOK TALK | 12:50 min | Backstory - Rinse Repeat: Cleanliness in America I think you'll like the podcast! *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:/...

371B: A Conversation — Herland 17.01.2015 56:50

| Call-in Line | 1-206-350-1642 Call in and leave an audio comment! How to call from outside of the US. | Current Book | Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Book talk begins at 11:20. The first Herland episode is 336 . If the iTunes feed ever goes down, please head over to the Libsyn site , the Premium Member Audio stream can be found here and on the free CraftLit smart phone apps. | Links | | No...