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 Host Heather Ordover explains historical references, vocabulary, and cultural context before each chapter so listeners can fully enjoy the story.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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CRAFTLIT - START NORTH AND SOUTH HERE 07.02.2014 4:33

Get ready to travel back in time to the mid-19th century, a time of social upheaval, industrial revolution, and a pinch of good ol' Victorian romance. If you thought Jane Austen's world was all tea parties and polite conversations, well, hold on to your crinolines because North and South takes us to the bustling, soot-stained town of Milton—where the smoke from factory chimneys mingles with the sp...

CRAFTLIT - END OF AGE OF INNOCENCE HERE 03.01.2014 1:09

330: Bk 2 Ch 34 — Age of Innocence (End of Book) 03.01.2014 55:38

Book talk begins right away. *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...

329: Bk 2 Chs 32-33 — Age of Innocence 27.12.2013 1:13:12

328: Bk 2 Chs 30-31 — Age of Innocence 20.12.2013 1:12:08

Book talk begins at 5:45min. *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...

327: Bk 2 Chs 27-29 — Age of Innocence 14.12.2013 1:03:46

Book talk begins at 5:20min. *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...

326: Bk 2 Ch 26 — Age of Innocence 07.12.2013 54:00

Book talk begins at 15min. *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 •...

325: Bk 2 Ch 25 — Age of Innocence 30.11.2013 33:16

Booktalk begins at 13:30min *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...

324: Bk 2 Ch 24 — Age of Innocence 23.11.2013 37:39

323: Bk 2 Ch 23 — Age of Innocence 16.11.2013 35:32

Booktalk begins at 6 min. Pix of the hertic carriage , another , and Mister Hertic himself . *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....

322: Bk 2 Ch 22 — Age of Innocence 09.11.2013 43:53

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BOO! Masque of the Red Death 30.10.2013 37:13

BONUS EPISODE-" Masque of the Red Death ", because... tis the season! And because Jon Scholes ROCKS! So, to celebrate, I thought I should give you easy links to some other seasonal audio: Link to " Cask of Amontillado " episode Link to " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " episodes Link to Dracula episodes on CraftLit , and Dracula episodes on Just-the-Books The first story I did for Chilling Tales for...

321: Bk 2 Ch 21 — Age of Innocence 25.10.2013 1:00:21

Booktalk begins at 13.077min *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...

320: Bk 2 Ch 20 — Age of Innocence 18.10.2013 52:48

Booktalk begins at 10:27 min Botzen liniment memoirs of the Baroness Bunsen Charles Worth Interlaken Grindelwald Etretat cafés chantants Goncourt grenier Maupassant Mérimée Flaubert *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/ • Fac...

319: Bk 2 Ch 19 — Age of Innocence 11.10.2013 50:26

Booktalk begins at 13:30min sable (wrong era, but the black offset the sable nicely… if you're into furs, anyway...) ermine camphor sexton vestry chancel Grace Church (and wiki ) Handel's march frock-coat chinchilla bath-chair Chantilly lace (not the song) Parma violets Bishop Rector Spohr symphony No. 9 maybe? Mendelssohn March Rhinebeck and Edit Wharton Pervasion *CraftLit's Socials* • Find ever...

318: Bk 1 Ch 18 — Age of Innocence 27.09.2013 49:40

Booktalk begins at 13:30min Tippet *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/@cr...

317: Bk 1 Ch 17 — Age of Innocence 20.09.2013 52:03

Booktalk begins at 13:30min Cool St Augustine facts! Polonaise Pharisee update Ulster Coat Susan said about St Augustine: This evening as I was going to a class at Flagler College I was listening to the episode where St Augustine is first mentioned. The College is in the old Hotel Ponce de Leon, built by industrialist Henry Flagler in the 1880's. It was designed by Carrere and Hastings, who also b...

316: Bk 1 Ch 16 — Age of Innocence 13.09.2013 1:16:26

Booktalk begins at 26:30min How They Brought the News from Gent to Aix Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese St Augustine *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.fa...

315: Bk 1 Ch 15 — Age of Innocence 06.09.2013 1:01:06

Booktalk begins at 9:30min Spuyten Duyvil cutter patroon coleus Herbert Spencer Dissertation on Victorian Dilettantes Alphonse Daudet George Elliot Dante Rosetti Christina Rosetti *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/ • Faceb...

314: Bk 1 Ch 14 — Age of Innocence 31.08.2013 53:49

Booktalk begins at 15min Industrious Apprentice Portrait of a Lady at Librivox The Portrait Of A Lady (AudioBook) The Journey of Mr Perrichon (a translated page) *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:/...

313: Bk 1 Ch 13 — Age of Innocence 23.08.2013 37:25

Booktalk begins at 8:39 The Shaughraun —the play they're watching at the start of the chapter Dion Boucicault *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...

312: Bk 1 Ch 12 — Age of Innocence 16.08.2013 45:52

Booktalk begins at 4:06 Edwin Booth Washington Irving's house Dinner Dress (scroll waaay down) Carolus-Duran—the painter who had a woman in a robe similar to Ellens… which painting I cannot find. Though I did find this one . Delmonico's *CraftLit's Socials* • Find everything here: https://www.linktr.ee/craftlitchannel • Join the newsletter: http://eepurl.com/2raf9 • Podcast site: http://craftlit.c...

311: Bk 1 Ch 11 — Age of Innocence 10.08.2013 38:13

book talk starts at 8:30 Scorcese review Pharisees " Death of Chatham " " The Coronation of Napoleon " (a really REALLY big painting) Sheraton Knife-cases Haute Brion *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: ht...

310: Bk 1 Ch 10 — Age of Innocence 02.08.2013 54:15

pair of black cobs Swinburne 's " Chastelard " " Contes Drolatiques " by BALZAC French Sunday / English Sunday *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...

309: Bk 1 Ch 9 — Age of Innocence 27.07.2013 55:03

Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence , chapter 9, with many thanks to our reader, Brenda Dayne . Map of NY neighborhoods a family landau Dante Petrarch Ruskiin John Addington Symonds Vernon Lee's " Euphorion " English painters of the present day : essays by J. Beavington Atkinson, Sidney Colvin, P.G. Hamerton, W.M. Rossetti, and Tom Taylor The Renaissance by Walter Pater Botticelli Fra Angelico pampas...