{"id":3816,"date":"2014-07-29T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2014-07-29T08:34:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:34:48","slug":"20-books-you-pretend-to-have-read-book-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/20-books-you-pretend-to-have-read-book-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Books You Pretend to Have Read | BOOK RIOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OOH! OOH! OOH!<br \/>\nMister Kotter!!<br \/>\nI have a solution!<\/p>\n<p>So, book riot released this a week and a half ago (and I just saw it, thank you, Heatherly):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2013\/07\/17\/top-20-books-you-pretend-to-have-read\/\">20 Books You Pretend to Have Read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, because of CraftLit I was intrigued. Then, scrolling down past the top twenty-lied-about-books, a reader shared this graphic:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookriotcom.c.presscdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BR-Venn-3-Polls-final.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So.<br \/>\nI humbly present my solutions for the world&#8217;s lying-about-reading conundrum:<br \/>\nListen to <a href=\"http:\/\/Audiobooks-with-Benefits.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Audiobooks with Benefits<\/em><\/a>!**<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2014from the graphic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride and Prejud<\/em>ice<\/a> (1)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?wpsc-product=the-great-gatsby-benefits-only-edition\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Great Gatsby<\/em><\/a> (8)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?wpsc-product=jane-eyre-enhanced-ebook\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jane Eyre<\/em><\/a> (15)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?wpsc-product=wuthering-heights-2\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/a> (17)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and from the Top-20 list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?wpsc_product_category=audio#656\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Tale of Two Cities<\/em><\/a> (20)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inyourearshakespeare.com\/chopbard.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hamlet<\/em><\/a> (25; and the general &#8220;Shakespeare&#8221; response\u2014link\u00a0takes you to <strong><em>Chop Bard)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?cat=17\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Little Women<\/em><\/a> (34)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?cat=15\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Scarlet Letter<\/em><\/a> (35)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F6g7S2W27Kc\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Slaughterhouse Five<\/em><\/a> (36;\u00a0link takes you to <strong><em>Crash<\/em><\/strong><em> Cours<\/em><em>e<\/em>\u2014not the audiobook, but will help you attack the book!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?cat=119\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dracula<\/em><\/a> (38)<\/li>\n<li><em>Jane Austen<\/em> (48; <a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>P&amp;P<\/em><\/a>, 1 above, <a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?cat=53\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Persuasion<\/em><\/a>, 323)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?cat=14\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Frankenstein<\/em><\/a> (61)<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?wpsc_product_category=audio#656\" target=\"_blank\">Alice in Wonderland<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(67)<\/li>\n<li>Charles Dickens (69;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?wpsc-product=bleak-house-part-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bleak House<\/em> <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?tag=christmas-carol\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?wpsc-product=coming-soon-prologue-to-the-canterbury-tales\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Canterbury Tales<\/em><\/a> (83; being remastered, but soon\u2014and if anyone wants to translate and read Beowulf for me, just let me know\u2014and could you throw in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wanderer_(poem)\" target=\"_blank\">The Wanderer<\/a>\u2019,&#8221; too?)<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?cat=16\" target=\"_blank\">The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(129)<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hcforgottenclassics.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/episode-70-uncle-toms-cabin-chapters-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(171, link takes you to\u00a0<strong><em>Forgotten Classics<\/em><\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/shop\/?wpsc-product=bleak-house-part-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bleak House\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(200)<\/li>\n<li>Edgar Allen Poe (232; <a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?p=32\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cask<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?p=7273\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Masque<\/em><\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/craftlit\/?cat=10\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Turn of the Screw<\/em><\/a> (380)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and that&#8217;s all you need, right? Everyone is set, now, yes?<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n<p>Because these books are a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p>No!<\/p>\n<p>Really!<\/p>\n<p>And these are the books that are on-deck at CraftLit (meaning there is work being actively done on them\u2014either by book readers or by me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>P<\/em><em>icture of Dorian Grey<\/em> (51) is on-deck at CraftLit<\/li>\n<li><em>Adventures of Sherlock Holmes<\/em> (81) some are on-deck at CraftLit<\/li>\n<li><em>Middlemarch\u00a0<\/em>(111) on-deck at CraftLit<\/li>\n<li><em>The Awakening\u00a0<\/em> (189) on-deck at CraftLit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there!<\/p>\n<p>Painless classics! No need to be embarrassed and lie any longer&#8211;at least not about these 19 from CraftLit and the others I listed here from friends of the show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*I&#8217;m always asked, so I&#8217;ll say up front, I can only do classics on CraftLit. The podcast is free so the text has to be as well\u2014that means only books\u00a0<em>and translations<\/em> that are in the Public Domain. This is why we haven&#8217;t done Russians or things like Don Quixote yet\u2014the translations we have access to are all Victorian and&#8230; kinda&#8230; dull.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you would like to secure rights to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0393320979\/?tag=crapofocrwhlo-20\">this<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=crapofocrwhlo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0393320979\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001R1LCKS\/?tag=crapofocrwhlo-20\">this<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=crapofocrwhlo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001R1LCKS\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1555976549\/?tag=crapofocrwhlo-20\">this<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=crapofocrwhlo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1555976549\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0465086454\/?tag=crapofocrwhlo-20\">coupled with this<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=crapofocrwhlo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0465086454\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>)<br \/>\nso we could put any of them on the podcast, I&#8217;d be happy to start researching\u00a0<em>right now!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>** Technology has finally caught up to where I needed it to be and thus I&#8217;m remastering old audio. It takes awhile (because one-woman-show) but it IS happening. However, if you previously purchased an Audiobook from me, and I release a remaster, you will get an email with the link to the new files. No need to re-pay or re-sign up or hassle with any of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OOH! OOH! OOH! Mister Kotter!! I have a solution! So, book riot released this a week and a half ago (and I just saw it, thank you, Heatherly): 20 Books You Pretend to Have Read. Of course, because of CraftLit I was intrigued. Then, scrolling down past the top twenty-lied-about-books, a reader shared this graphic: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,7,28,4,65],"tags":[494,149,495],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-general-ranting","category-love","category-podcast","category-web-fun","category-writing","tag-book-riot","tag-books","tag-classics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}