Just finished Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South in audio form from CraftLit and while Victorian romances are not my normal thing, I enjoyed it! But holy god the English hate the Irish so much it’s mind bending.
September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Just finished Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South in audio form from CraftLit and while Victorian romances are not my normal thing, I enjoyed it! But holy god the English hate the Irish so much it’s mind bending.
True! As for the dyslexia, may I recommend the CraftLit podcast? It’s by an actress turned HS English teacher who does what she calls “annotated audiobooks,” where she gives the sort of intro and follow-up to each chapter that a really good English teacher would. She’s a great reader, too.
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
True! As for the dyslexia, may I recommend the CraftLit podcast? It’s by an actress turned HS English teacher who does what she calls “annotated audiobooks,” where she gives the sort of intro and follow-up to each chapter that a really good English teacher would. She’s a great reader, too.
Did you know you can watch me on TWO separate YouTube channels pontificating about Jane? It's true! Over at CraftLit I talk about Emma with Heather and Becca. Over at my YouTube channel, I present on Jane Austen merch. Enjoy! 👉🏻 excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Did you know you can watch me on TWO separate YouTube channels pontificating about Jane? It's true! Over at CraftLit I talk about Emma with Heather and Becca. Over at my YouTube channel, I present on Jane Austen merch. Enjoy! 👉🏻 excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
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I’ve been the host of the CraftLit podcast for 19 years, and I support this Book Club @velshi.com
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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell
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June 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I’ve been the host of the CraftLit podcast for 19 years, and I support this Book Club @velshi.com
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We did that book on CraftLit podcast a decade ago. I’d forgotten that. Need to resurrect that recording!
May 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
We did that book on CraftLit podcast a decade ago. I’d forgotten that. Need to resurrect that recording!
Spectacular! CraftLit thanks you🥰
March 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Spectacular! CraftLit thanks you🥰
Once you have finished adding all of your posts, hit the "Reply" button once, and all of your posts will appear, one right after the other in a single thread.
I love your CraftLit podcast, by the way. Have started from the beginning and am now on Little Women!
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I love your CraftLit podcast, by the way. Have started from the beginning and am now on Little Women!
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March 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Once you have finished adding all of your posts, hit the "Reply" button once, and all of your posts will appear, one right after the other in a single thread.
I love your CraftLit podcast, by the way. Have started from the beginning and am now on Little Women!
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I love your CraftLit podcast, by the way. Have started from the beginning and am now on Little Women!
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Seriously, If no one in power is gonna read it, we probably should. Thank you, @leejamiller.bsky.social
And if you need something of the same era but with more snark: bit.ly/craftlit-vindication
youtube.com/watch?v=VoNp...
And if you need something of the same era but with more snark: bit.ly/craftlit-vindication
youtube.com/watch?v=VoNp...
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January 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Seriously, If no one in power is gonna read it, we probably should. Thank you, @leejamiller.bsky.social
And if you need something of the same era but with more snark: bit.ly/craftlit-vindication
youtube.com/watch?v=VoNp...
And if you need something of the same era but with more snark: bit.ly/craftlit-vindication
youtube.com/watch?v=VoNp...
CraftLit podcast and its listeners thank you. 😊📚
January 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
CraftLit podcast and its listeners thank you. 😊📚
It's been being read aloud on CraftLit, a chapter a week, since Nov 4.
January 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It's been being read aloud on CraftLit, a chapter a week, since Nov 4.
—it’s how people found shows in olden times. I’m renewing that offer to indie podcasters: Here’s my 30 sec promo for the last book we did on CraftLit, J.Austen’s “Emma” (bit.ly/Emma-teaser). If you have a 30 second (family-friendly) promo for your indie podcast, please share it in this thread. 2 /3
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December 13, 2024 at 8:23 PM
—it’s how people found shows in olden times. I’m renewing that offer to indie podcasters: Here’s my 30 sec promo for the last book we did on CraftLit, J.Austen’s “Emma” (bit.ly/Emma-teaser). If you have a 30 second (family-friendly) promo for your indie podcast, please share it in this thread. 2 /3
Now playing: Ch2 pt1 of Wollstonecraft's "Vindication".
bit.ly/craftlit-vin...
Don't fear creaky language—Even if you start off like 🫤 — by the end, you'll be 🤔🧐🤓
+ hang on ‘til the end, for, perhaps, the single most erudite comment on Rousseau—ever.
(Hyperbole? Moi?!)
bit.ly/craftlit-vin...
Don't fear creaky language—Even if you start off like 🫤 — by the end, you'll be 🤔🧐🤓
+ hang on ‘til the end, for, perhaps, the single most erudite comment on Rousseau—ever.
(Hyperbole? Moi?!)
Mary Wollstonecraft on the Prevailing Opinion of Sexual Character
also known as Chapter 2 - part 1 of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
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December 5, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Now playing: Ch2 pt1 of Wollstonecraft's "Vindication".
bit.ly/craftlit-vin...
Don't fear creaky language—Even if you start off like 🫤 — by the end, you'll be 🤔🧐🤓
+ hang on ‘til the end, for, perhaps, the single most erudite comment on Rousseau—ever.
(Hyperbole? Moi?!)
bit.ly/craftlit-vin...
Don't fear creaky language—Even if you start off like 🫤 — by the end, you'll be 🤔🧐🤓
+ hang on ‘til the end, for, perhaps, the single most erudite comment on Rousseau—ever.
(Hyperbole? Moi?!)
Thrilled that my 💔 stag story is coming out in CRAFT Jan. 10. Now seeing stags everywhere...
#shortstory #fiction #writer #CRAFTlit
#shortstory #fiction #writer #CRAFTlit
November 25, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Thrilled that my 💔 stag story is coming out in CRAFT Jan. 10. Now seeing stags everywhere...
#shortstory #fiction #writer #CRAFTlit
#shortstory #fiction #writer #CRAFTlit
Craftlit #podcast = annotated classic #audiobooks
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November 24, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Craftlit #podcast = annotated classic #audiobooks
Today I started listening to Emma (Jane Austen) as an audiobook, through the CraftLit podcast. I first read this for A-Level English Literature (many years ago), and spent a wonderful term discussing and analysing it. I’m looking forward to doing similar now #KnowingNovember #Day23
November 23, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Today I started listening to Emma (Jane Austen) as an audiobook, through the CraftLit podcast. I first read this for A-Level English Literature (many years ago), and spent a wonderful term discussing and analysing it. I’m looking forward to doing similar now #KnowingNovember #Day23
Today (or maybe started yesterday, I can’t remember) I got back into the CraftLit podcast, which I haven’t listened to for a few years - week by week chapters and discussion of a classic book, and added conversation. Have listened to loads #KnowingNovember #Day17
November 17, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Today (or maybe started yesterday, I can’t remember) I got back into the CraftLit podcast, which I haven’t listened to for a few years - week by week chapters and discussion of a classic book, and added conversation. Have listened to loads #KnowingNovember #Day17
From Long-COVID long hauler to... whatever the next kind of Long-Hauler I'll be, CraftLit is adding literature to the conversation: open.substack.com/pub/initfort...
Well, That Happened
In It For the Long Haul changes focus
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November 12, 2024 at 5:13 PM
From Long-COVID long hauler to... whatever the next kind of Long-Hauler I'll be, CraftLit is adding literature to the conversation: open.substack.com/pub/initfort...
Hey internet! Talking about Austen's EMMA and a Post-Emma world today (11/10) on CraftLit. It’ll be live at 4pm EST on YouTube and later across your favorite podcast apps.
Post-Emma Livestream • CraftLit & @excessivelydiverting | @heroineinabook
Join CraftLit host Heather, Becca from "Book it with Becca"—and special guest, Lisa Raby, friend of the 'cast and source for all things Austen (and sometimes...
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November 10, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Hey internet! Talking about Austen's EMMA and a Post-Emma world today (11/10) on CraftLit. It’ll be live at 4pm EST on YouTube and later across your favorite podcast apps.
Hey internet! Talking about Jane Austen's EMMA and a Post-Emma world today (11/10) on CraftLit. It’ll be live at 4pm EST on YouTube and later across your favorite podcast apps. https://buff.ly/4hDDlFH
November 10, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Hey internet! Talking about Jane Austen's EMMA and a Post-Emma world today (11/10) on CraftLit. It’ll be live at 4pm EST on YouTube and later across your favorite podcast apps. https://buff.ly/4hDDlFH
Really recommend the CraftLit podcast. Heather Ordover was an actress and then a high school English teacher. Started a podcast in 2006 reading public domain classics and providing the commentary that a great teacher does.
She has a great voice and has fellow actors reading when she doesn’t.
She has a great voice and has fellow actors reading when she doesn’t.
I had a beast of an English teacher who had us read, aloud, No Exit by Sartre so we could understand existentialism.
The classics, like a lot of art, are better enjoyed with the assist from a compelling tour guide. They have their place. I just can't see them being the only thing on the menu.
The classics, like a lot of art, are better enjoyed with the assist from a compelling tour guide. They have their place. I just can't see them being the only thing on the menu.
July 24, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Really recommend the CraftLit podcast. Heather Ordover was an actress and then a high school English teacher. Started a podcast in 2006 reading public domain classics and providing the commentary that a great teacher does.
She has a great voice and has fellow actors reading when she doesn’t.
She has a great voice and has fellow actors reading when she doesn’t.
I’m not really an audiobook gal, but the SheDunnit podcast is excellent and will find you all sorts of new overlooked golden age women mystery writers to read. Also, short - 25 mins.
If you are nostalgic for a great HS English teacher, recommend the CraftLit podcast of “annotated audiobooks.”
If you are nostalgic for a great HS English teacher, recommend the CraftLit podcast of “annotated audiobooks.”
May 31, 2024 at 11:30 PM
I’m not really an audiobook gal, but the SheDunnit podcast is excellent and will find you all sorts of new overlooked golden age women mystery writers to read. Also, short - 25 mins.
If you are nostalgic for a great HS English teacher, recommend the CraftLit podcast of “annotated audiobooks.”
If you are nostalgic for a great HS English teacher, recommend the CraftLit podcast of “annotated audiobooks.”
If you want audiobooks with commentary, a favorite of many years is CraftLit: a former English teacher plays chapters of public domain books and bookends them with book talk and crafty chat. She's been doing it more than 15 years now, so there are a lot of books to enjoy, & she's a smart, fun lady.
October 10, 2023 at 2:46 AM
If you want audiobooks with commentary, a favorite of many years is CraftLit: a former English teacher plays chapters of public domain books and bookends them with book talk and crafty chat. She's been doing it more than 15 years now, so there are a lot of books to enjoy, & she's a smart, fun lady.
I’m so excited that my big holiday has finally come around! I can’t wait till Saturday to meet the other craftlitters!! @craftlit
November 22, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I’m so excited that my big holiday has finally come around! I can’t wait till Saturday to meet the other craftlitters!! @craftlit
brain has gone now. I was multi-pressing play on my ipod wondering why I couldn't hear @CraftLit - realised I didn't have my headphones on!
November 22, 2024 at 8:11 PM
brain has gone now. I was multi-pressing play on my ipod wondering why I couldn't hear @CraftLit - realised I didn't have my headphones on!