Read to Me: Recent Episodes
Aimee
Because sometimes you just want someone to read you a story.
Listen to classic works of fiction read aloud chapter by chapter.
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Chapter 5: Advice from a Caterpillar
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Chapter 4: The Rabbit Sends In a Little Bill
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
Chapter 3: A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Chapter 15: A Retrospection
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 14: The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 13: Fixing the Nets
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 12: Death on the Moor
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 10: Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 9: The Light Upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 8: First Report of Dr. Watson
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Chapter 7: The Stapletons of Merripit House
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 6: Baskerville Hall
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Chapter 5: Three Broken Threads
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Chapter 4: Sir Henry Baskerville
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Chapter 3: The Problem
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Chapter 2: "The Curse of the Baskervilles"
In which we finally learn why Dr. Mortimer has sought the services of Sherlock Holmes.
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Chapter 1: "Mr. Sherlock Holmes"
I mean...he can't be right all the time, can he?
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In which Irene Adler becomes The Woman.
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In which Holmes dons several disguises, and Watson has no idea why he's carrying around a smoke bomb.
The conclusion of "A Scandal in Bohemia" will be out next Friday!
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The game is afoot.
A Scandal in Bohemia will release in 3 parts, with a new chapter out every Friday morning (EDT).
"The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.” - The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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We have come to the final piece of narration from Victor Frankenstein himself! Chapter 24, Part 2 will pick back up with Walton, so keep an eye out for that next week as we come to conclusion of Mary Shelley's tale.
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cue the wedding bells
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Bet you didn't realize how many times there would be a murder trial in this novel, did you?
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It seems that somebody is finally contemplating the potential consequences of their actions! With limited success, it seems.
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Clerval and Frankenstein travel through England (making me very nostalgic for travel), and Frankenstein finally stops procrastinating.
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Look, I too have been known to procrastinate on projects but the consequences rarely included homicide.
Yes, Frankenstein continues to handle things poorly, what else could we expect?
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Frankenstein tries to come to a decision about whether or not to make a companion for his creature.
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Hope you are ready for some rapid character development because things are about to take a serious turn for Frankenstein's creation. Also! We are roughly 2/3 through the book!
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FINALLY we are getting to the point of the creature's very long-winded story. What happens when he finally gets up the nerve to introduce himself to the cottagers? Listen and find out!
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Okay, Frankenstein's creature may be an acute observer and articulate narrator but nobody ever taught him that brevity is the soul of wit.
TW: Islamophobia
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In which we finally learn how Frankenstein's monster learned to speak so eloquently even though he is essentially a toddler, and a new character arrives.
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Both Frankenstein and his creature love to monologue. Why couldn't they bond over this???
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How is possible that the creature is this articulate when he is basically a toddler?
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In which the creator is confronted with his creature.
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TW: mentions of suicide/suicidal thoughts
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Turns out you can't just run away from your mistakes forever. Who would have guessed?
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In which Viktor in no way deals with the consequences of his own actions whatsoever, at all.
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In which Frankenstein makes a monster. (Although really isn't Frankenstein the monster of the narrative?)
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Apparently Viktor decided that his senior thesis project was uncovering the origins of life itself, which goes just about as poorly as you might expect.
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Viktor tells of the first tragedy of his life, and his departure for university.
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Viktor Frankenstein would like you to know that he is deeply ashamed of how much he loved Cornelius Agrippa as a teen, and honestly, can't we all relate?
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In which Viktor Frankenstein begins to recount his own life story--starting with his parents.
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Please do not pick up wild-eyed men with no good explanation for why they are pursuing a strange giant through the Arctic, thank you, that is somehow even worse than hitchhiking through California in the 1970s.
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Robert Walton assembles a crew for his voyage, but apparently should have taken applications for the position of Friend at some point.
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That's right, we are beginning a new novel! And we're starting out by traveling to the north pole to study magnets? Why not!
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Ok, which house party was worse, the Masque of the Red Death or this utter catastrophe?
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Murder, mayhem, and madness. It's a Poe trifecta!
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A viral epidemic is not, in fact, an excuse to throw an extravagant house party for 1,000 of your closest friends, as we all now know.
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And so we come to the end of our tale, right back where we started in Transylvania.
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It's the penultimate episode! Do you have an idea of what you want to listen to next? Send me a message on Instagram (@readtomepod) or email me at readtomepodcast@gmail.com with your ideas!
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Why do these fools actually have better luck tracking a ship in the 1890s than I have tracking my asos order in 2021? Is it because one of them is a super wealthy lord? Probably, yes.
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Okay, but how difficult was it to make transnational travel arrangements in the 1890s? No Google Maps? No AirBnB? No thank you.
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In which Jonathan Harker brings a knife to a vampire (?) fight. It's a choice.
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How is Mina coping with the aftermath of her encounter with Dracula? What is the best way to break into a vampire's second home? Press play and find out! [TW for mentions of suicide]
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In which Dracula makes his presence known within the walls of the asylum.
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Jonathan really has a lot of attitude in this one, and if it weren't for the occasionally classist overtones I would totally be here for it.
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In which a bunch of men who would be nowhere without Mina Harker keep talking about how noble they are for excluding her and I am not endorsing that decision.
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Vampiric Folklore Summary: GO
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Basically just a bunch of people reading everyone else's diaries. It's your second grade nightmare come to life.
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I love a good locked-room mystery. How did 3 people disappear from a moving train unseen? How did a man end up dead with a dozen watches in his pockets?
Also, how nostalgic am I for trains right now?
Round the Fire Stories on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54109
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"Just meet in the graveyard, he said. It's important, he said." -Jack Seward, muttering angrily to himself
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Van Helsing joins the Mina Harker Appreciation Society
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This chapter's relatable moment: coming across an old acquaintance in a public place and hoping they don't see you.
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In this episode, I read you "The Leather Funnel" from Arthur Conan Doyle's anthology, Round the Fire Stories, and give a quick bit of historical context afterwards, delving into the story of Marie-Madeleine-Marguérite d'Aubray and theAffair of the Poisons from 17th century France.
TW: mentions of torture
Sources:
Round the Fire Stories on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54109
Marie-Madeleine-Marguérite d'Aubray, Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite-dAubray-marquise-de-Brinvilliers
Affair of the Poisons, Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/event/Affair-of-the-Poisons
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Quincy Morris, Cowboy Extraordinaire, returns to the narrative; Mina's final letters to Lucy.
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Van Helsing hanging garlic everywhere
"Trust me, I'm a doctor."
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A warm welcome to Abraham van Helsing, M.D., D.PH., D.Litt., Etc., Etc. and his grammatical eccentricities.
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Must Mina Harker worry about all of these people all of the time? Apparently yes.
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We've got a seriously wild news report out of Whitby, folks.
Also this was clearly the origins of that scene where T.Rex sails into San Francisco in Jurassic Park II, don't @ me.
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Welcome to Whitby! I am forced to attempt a Yorkshire accent since it's written phonetically--my sincerest apologies to all of Yorkshire and old Mr. Swales.
Lucy keeps wandering around in her sleep and Dr. Seward's patient is....up to something.
TW: mention of suicide
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Any window can technically be a door if you're willing to work hard enough.
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In which Jonathan Harker is not having a good time and casual misogyny enters the chat.
(I have a new microphone, so the audio quality has radically improved!)
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In which we learn that Count Dracula has a lot of books about England and a remarkable disdain for mirrors.
[Note: episode re-recorded for audio quality 4-12-21]
In which Jonathan Harker eats a lot of paprika and wants you to know that he's not drunk and everything that happened is real.
[Note: re-recorded for improved audio 4/11/2021]