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CraftLit - Serialized Classic Literature for Busy Book Lovers


You can find a complete library of all of CraftLit's books alphabetized with links to the shownotes and audio at craftLit.com/library. To find out more about the show and all the ways you can access the audio, please visit here. If you're looking for our Patreon page, you will find it (and all the goodies) here. Lastly, if you want to keep up with the podcast, you can join the email list here too.

Jun 26, 2020

Book Talk @6:00

Updated Chart



Twitter thread—ADHD & memory storage https://twitter.com/vartian/status/1274852542460166145

Join the Zoom Chats:
Tuesday is 5am Eastern (for New Zealand and Australia & the UK)

 

Thursday is 7pm Eastern:


Tuesday Book Chat
Lina (or Laura?): Forever Sweater - Blaire - Icelandic Wool

Maia's Temperature Blanket: get Hexagon info from Attic 24 - Yorkshire Crochet blog - (she sells yarn packs, too) How-to Hexagon: https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/hexagon-crochet.html
—Join in a new colour for round 2: knot the two yarns together like for the Granny Squares (https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/2008/10/granny-squaring.html
—Remember you can crochet the ends in as you go with the hex's too, to save you darning ends in at the end.
—and, how to make a half hexie: https://meanyjar.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html
Temperature blanket how-to: https://oombawkadesigncrochet.com/2019/01/temperature-blankets-crochet-patterns-color-charts-and-tracking-sheets.html
Mindless Crochet blanket or scarf: Neat Wave crochet pattern: https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/neat-wave-pattern.html

Laura Ricketts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHGbKuZzq3E Tim Hawkins alternative swear words

Heather: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4793190/
Maia Daguerre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fAvJYF0kJg
Mitchell & Webb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384750/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

Heather's Sister's fave show: https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Scene-Cleaner-English-subtitled/dp/B014WGX4FK  & episode: 7. Schotty's Struggle (English subtitled) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2609542/?ref_=ttep_ep3

Something Rotten Act 1 - OBC https://youtu.be/r0JkNaJHGOY - best Sexy Shakespeare, ever. (b/c it's hard to be the Bard)
Heather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRDajvNX7Vw&list=RDspMHOPgms3E&index=5
Tim Minchin: https://youtu.be/rvNMscvgvdk
Tim Minchin Storm: https://youtu.be/HhGuXCuDb1U

Ann Blanton : Ben Aaronovich “Midnight Riot” - Rivers of London Book 1 (or Midnight Riot in the US): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8680417-midnight-riot?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kwjGQU8vgP&rank=1
& UK title is "Rivers of London" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9317452-rivers-of-london

UK book: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - https://www.audible.com/pd/Why-Im-No-Longer-Talking-to-White-People-About-Race-Audiobook/B06XGKLVWH?plink=14ffdc53-5742-46&ref=a_typ_c8_adblp13npbxx_1_5&pf_rd_p=a4ce0786-7b61-438a-b8ed-97d8ca623101&pf_rd_r=VMT8R160NDWKT4EZHN8C

If you're looking for Dawn detergent in Australia: https://www.thriftyfun.com/Buying-Dawn-Dish-Soap-in-Australia-4.html


Thursday Book Chat
Regina: reading Rebecca - best book about an Introvert—ever
Heather: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking — by Susan Cain - https://amzn.to/2ViXAQE

Jennifer: Recommends Barchester Towers (Trollope) for possible CraftLit Book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125321.Barchester_Towers

  • Fun to watch: Staged - Tennant & Sheen: https://youtu.be/dy-6sTLCcIE - In a brand new lockdown produced series, Michael Sheen and David Tennant attempt to put the world to rights while rehearsing for a West End production over video call. Also starring David's wife, Georgia Tennant.

'Staged' airs Wednesday 10th June on BBC One with a double-bill.

Aimee: Critical Role - Podcast or YouTube (Online D&D)

Heather: Audible new release! Sandman - July 15

START YOUR DISNEY+ FREE TRIAL ON JULY 3rd: Hamilton https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/reviewedcom/2020/05/19/how-watch-hamilton-disney-plus/5222275002/
Sign Up at https://disneyplus.com/

Aimee: John Stewart movie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9076562/
also recommends Jeff Goldblum show on Disney+ (also Goldblum with Taika Waititi: https://youtu.be/sorMiDJ-J-A re Thor Ragnarok)

Fun short on Disney+ Kitbull, directed by Rosana Sullivan and produced by Kathryn Hendrickson, reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.
Partly Coudy short: https://youtu.be/ix13P9NqBjo

Kathi - the Vanishing - review: "eh."

Kathi: Starting Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness  - https://amzn.to/3g2qfS2

Ishi last of his tribe written by Le Guin's MOTHER: Theodora Kroeber: https://amzn.to/38030VE



YA Gurl Power fantasy trilogy - first book: The Princess of Trelian - by Michelle Knudsen - https://amzn.to/3dBRAZv (author of Library Lion!)

Regina: Don't watch this on a plane: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10919486/

Jordan Peele breaks down "Get Out " on Reddit: https://youtu.be/hBvcngHRTFg

Regina: Bone Hampton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YVugbWLFxE

Aimee: Fake Doctors, Real Friends podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-fake-doctors-real-friends-60367049/
Heather is looking for her old, Zen Garden screen saver (SE 30 era) which reminded everyone of: Flying Toasters screen saver: https://www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/after-dark-flying-toasters-1153/

Jennifer: Miss Pinkerton (Part of the Hilda Adams Series) - by Mary Roberts Rinehart
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/miss-pinkerton_mary-roberts-rinehart/470843/#isbn=0821718479 
Review: Eh. Not as much fun as The Swimming Pool

Kathi: learning from Tinna Mosaic Crochethttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1e6pq5VqnfFU8STEeQkV5hwyvYji7fVb

Kathi: NEWS! Announcement of new Shelley Museum in Bath! - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-52923492

Aimee: Netflix: Disclosure: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/18/disclosure-laverne-cox-netflix-documentary-trans-representation
Thirteenth: https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741

Heather: The Scene so shocking that Nixon had it cut from 1776—"Cool Considerate Men" https://youtu.be/LxaAw2viEIQ

Toshi: great podcast from Rachel Maddow Bag Man about Nixon's VP Spiro Agnew: https://www.msnbc.com/bagman
Slate SlowBurn podcast:  Season 1: https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s1/watergate      
Season 2: https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s2/clinton     
Season 3: https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s3/biggie-and-tupac      
Season 4: https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s4/david-duke