The Classic Tales Podcasts and Audiobooks

Last Friday, marked the 6th anniversary of B.J. Harrison's The Classic Tales Podcast .  This gives me the perfect opportunity to write about some of my favorite stories he has produced during the many years I've listened to the Podcast. I am trying to remember what the first story I listened to was, I think it was Arthur Conan Doyle's " The Speckled Band ."  Although I had read that story a bunch of times, B.J. really made it come alive to me.  Ever since then, each time I read a Sherlock Holmes story, it is his version of the sleuth I hear in my head. Also, if you haven't heard B.J.'s  Jeeves and Wooster you are so missing out.  But don't worry, he has bundled all of the books and stories he's recorded by P.G. Wodehouse for you.  You will love every minute of it and be in constant stitches! But getting to listen to some of my favorite stories is only part of what makes me love this podcast.  There are so many wonderful books and short stori...

This week, we start on the sequel to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.   Published in 1781, many critics thought Through the Looking Glass was more mathematical and cerebral than Wonderland.   Thankfully, the story had passed down to us through the generations, so we can make our own judgments on the playfulness and darkness in the story. The story opens six months after Alice’s first adventure, on a cold and snowy November day.   Alice is playing with Dinah’s kittens and pondering, like only she can, on what the other side of her mirror might be like.   She gets up on the mantelpiece and finds that she can easily step through the mirror and find out.   On the other parlor, she reads, with the aid of the mirror, a poem called "The Jabberwocky."   As you listen to BJ read this poem, enjoy the level of darkness he puts into his narration of the poem.   Did you know that his favorite version of this is from a Muppets episode ?   He’s got...