A Christmas Carol audiobook for you, Staves 1 & 2
Added 2023-12-03 03:25:48 +0000 UTCThe holidays are a weird, fun, horrifying, heartwarming, exciting, exhausting, beautiful, miserable time. So we thought we'd make an audiobook for you. Here, I'm reading the first two staves--up through the journey to Christmas past--of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for you (beautifully edited by Miranda Zickler and produced by Carolyn Kendrick). Expect the next ghosts in a couple of weeks. (This section is your November bonus, albeit a couple of days late--Santa hit some fog.)
I grew up watching the George C. Scott-as-Scrooge version of this story, which my parents taped off KOIN on Christmas Eve, 1989 (which means my Christmas memories also involved watching, year after year, news of the ouster of Ceaușescu and Noriega. Which, now that I think of it, seems pretty fitting). So what I'm saying is, if you want to make me cry out of pure nostalgia in about ten seconds, play this TJ Maxx ad for me. (No, it's never, ever the same place twice.)
I hope you enjoy this special project--I've been wanting to make a public domain audiobook for you for a while, so please let me know if you have more book ideas for 2024. And no matter what your month and your holiday season and your New Year's are like, thank you for being there with us through all of 2023. We couldn't have done it without you. I couldn't have done it without you. You're everything. We're just Ken.
Love,
Sarah
Comments
My three year old is currently obsessed with A Christmas Carol, I remembered today that you recorded this and we are currently snuggling on the couch and listening together. Thank you for this gift!!
Hannah Johnson-Walsh
2024-04-24 15:54:49 +0000 UTCNotes from Underground Or - who in the Levin family do we have to pay how much to get you access to his books with a John Boehner-esque audio book break at the end of each chapter (except instead of ripping Ted Cruz you rip the patriarchy in general — or rip both!).
Nicole F.
2023-12-24 04:18:17 +0000 UTCSo ready for your audio book version of pretty much any book
Josie Cline
2023-12-23 21:31:56 +0000 UTCI’m sorry. I just can’t shower until the next Stave is released.
Erin Simmons
2023-12-23 17:38:47 +0000 UTCThank you Sarah and producers for saving yet another holiday, this is fantastic.
Jenna
2023-12-21 21:38:05 +0000 UTCThis was so nice!!!!
Stevie Baker
2023-12-21 15:39:56 +0000 UTCI just watched Muppet Christmas Carol for the first time thanks to this comment section 💕🎄
Krista
2023-12-20 20:04:46 +0000 UTCI never was interested in this story till right now. Thank you so(:
Bre
2023-12-19 18:01:18 +0000 UTCWhen/will the rest be posted?
Morgan Ruoss
2023-12-18 21:20:02 +0000 UTCThe muppets are how I was introduced to this story, and I refuse to believe there are any other versions, but a narration done by you was something I didn’t know I needed until now. A tremendous Thank You for the joy you and your contributions bring because they are truly a gift to so many of us, especially me. You’ve got a great team & I appreciate all the hard work. 💚 Happy holidays!
belinda black
2023-12-17 17:31:55 +0000 UTCLove this !!
Morgan Ruoss
2023-12-14 21:35:34 +0000 UTCyou are my people
Shiloh Beazel
2023-12-12 19:42:56 +0000 UTCSame!!! I know the movie by heart <3 Sarah, you are definitely doing Gonzo proud.
M Pro
2023-12-12 19:00:21 +0000 UTCI'm not usually an audiobook person, but I'm enjoying this so much. It's so soothing and cozy, just what I need right now. Can't wait for the rest of the story!
M Pro
2023-12-12 18:59:45 +0000 UTCOmg I've always wished for a Sarah-narrated audio book since the stepford wives episode and now my wish is coming true!
Rachel Zitomer
2023-12-09 18:18:45 +0000 UTCAhhhh Sarah!! I’ve been reading this book every December for as long as I can remember, I’m so excited to have your glorious voice reading it to me this year ❤️🤍
Kirsten
2023-12-08 23:04:54 +0000 UTCThank you, Sarah! I’ve been meaning to read this for years, and it’s so much more delightful to have you read it to me! A Christmas miracle if ever there was one. 🥰
Renata Gutierrez
2023-12-07 20:55:20 +0000 UTCSarah! I love this so much! You are so talented! This is my favorite part of Christmas so far this year. Thank you!! Will you read me all the stories? ❤️
Jill Gluck
2023-12-07 18:48:29 +0000 UTCI had the album when I was little and listened to it all year long!
MHW
2023-12-07 17:10:18 +0000 UTCMuppet Christmas Carol is my favorite movie ♥️
Shiloh Beazel
2023-12-07 14:15:30 +0000 UTCThank you for this! I broke into a huge grin at the grave/gravy remark… I think you have brought that line up before in conversation and it was a grand full circle to hear you read it.
Zoe Michael
2023-12-06 23:34:12 +0000 UTCI love this 💜
Lauren Lambert
2023-12-06 02:45:37 +0000 UTCThis was so great, thank you!
Shelley DeWees
2023-12-05 19:59:56 +0000 UTCThank you, Sarah. This is such a joy! 🥰
Robyne Lloyd Davies
2023-12-05 03:05:49 +0000 UTCCan we please talk about how awkward that is that Scrooge is described as having a pointy nose? I’m just saying….
Gringa
2023-12-04 22:20:04 +0000 UTCThank you for this wonderful treat! This is always a hard month, and right now particularly hard, so I’m so very grateful 🩷
elizabeth
2023-12-04 18:38:21 +0000 UTCOur tape of the George C Scott version included the big blue IBM commercials, so I always feel that nostalgia. Watching on a DVD just isn't the same.
Elisabeth Johnson-Crawford
2023-12-04 17:42:12 +0000 UTCI was just thinking about how, for those of us from the taped-off-the-tv era, old commercials are as crucial to the holiday experience as the shows themselves. My mom taped "Muppet Family Christmas" when it aired in 1987 and due to hundreds of subsequent watches, Christmas will always make me want to grab on to that m&m feeling ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjalXr8JwW0) and wear oshkosh b'gosh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ncQD--dUuo).
Rachel Linthwaite
2023-12-04 16:57:56 +0000 UTCI am so delighted by this treat — plan to listen as I write out this year’s Christmas cards 🎁
Laura Williams-Burke
2023-12-04 15:46:06 +0000 UTCAfter my annual muppet rewatch, this is the best possible surprise. Thank youuuuu
Emma R
2023-12-04 07:27:18 +0000 UTCJust when I think I can’t love Sarah Marshall more, she reads me a bedtime story. Cannot wait for the next instalment.
Alex
2023-12-04 02:54:54 +0000 UTCThank you so much for this, Sarah.
Pagrocrag
2023-12-04 02:02:57 +0000 UTCWhat a delight! Thank you! Looking forward to the next installments.
Andrea Powers
2023-12-03 23:51:31 +0000 UTCThis is the next present I can imagine. I listen to the Patrick Stewart audiobook every year and listening to you read it I am getting a whole new feel for the story. So fun! Thank you!
KB
2023-12-03 22:32:14 +0000 UTCThank you for doing this! My teacher read A Christmas Carol to us in sixth grade, probably over the course of a week or so. I remember we got to spread out and get comfortable. I also grew up w the George C Scott version. It’s been a really hard year for me, and this is bringing me a lot of joy. Many many thanks, and merry Christmas to you Sarah!
Sonya
2023-12-03 21:25:44 +0000 UTCI love this! Like the perfect Christmas gift it’s something I never would have thought to ask for. Next, maybe do some Edgar Allen Poe short stories? I’ve been watching Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix and really want to read or reread some Poe soon
Anne
2023-12-03 18:50:48 +0000 UTCI love public domain audiobooks! And moreover, screw the misogynist apple podcast review haters, I have always enjoyed your voice so much. I got an MP3 player and a flip phone to remove distractions, so I've been listening to Anna Karenina from librivox while I work in the printmaking studio. I listened to Dracula this way, and Jane Eyre, plus lesser known titles like He Fell In Love With His Wife (charming little fake/pretend relationship fic from the 1870s) or The Art of Bookbinding: A Practical Treatise, which is as nerdy and fun as it sounds (there are tables! Tables of old recipes for chemicals and stuff, and they use all the old alchemy names for things!) ... In short, there are a lot of good old books, and we are in constant need for them to be read aloud. (You should put this on librivox if you haven't already. They have a great library.)
Ruby
2023-12-03 17:52:53 +0000 UTCThis is just brilliant Sarah! I always say that your voice is part of what makes YWA such a comforting podcast -- even when tacking non-conforting topics (or Flowers in Attics!). This really is your medium, and Dickens is a perfect vehicle!
Georgie Lewis
2023-12-03 17:16:14 +0000 UTCYes, and can we book club both??
Jennifer Lewis
2023-12-03 17:15:28 +0000 UTCAnd then Wide Sargasso Sea!
Andrei Nicolae
2023-12-03 17:01:31 +0000 UTCThis is sooo awesome! I can't wait to listen. Great idea!
Stevie Baker
2023-12-03 17:00:13 +0000 UTCSECONDED
Laura Bee
2023-12-03 16:49:51 +0000 UTCYay! I'd love you to read Jay's Journal or Sybil.
Katie Larson
2023-12-03 16:45:31 +0000 UTCooooooooooh
You're Wrong About
2023-12-03 16:16:33 +0000 UTCCan’t wait to listen to this - I only read it for the first time last year. Was surprised by how short it is, and how like and not like it the adaptations are. Scrooge is much more self aware - but it’s also quite funny. Wanted to comment on the cattle mutilation episode. Brit here. Horse ripping is still a thing that people worry about in the county side. Some people out there enjoy abusing animals - although maybe people’s fear is part stoked by urban legend. However people doing nasty things to horses makes the papers often enough. But “ripping” - you already knew this verb! Jack the Ripper… the Yorkshire Ripper…
HEBP
2023-12-03 15:07:34 +0000 UTCHaven't read it since school. It's far more sinister without the singing cabbages. Great fun - thanks, Sarah!
Natalie Hayes
2023-12-03 13:41:39 +0000 UTCI've never read it and have been extremely moved by Scrooge. The friends he most rejoices to see when Past first takes him back are his books. Oh buddy. ❤️
Stacy Magerkurth
2023-12-03 13:31:45 +0000 UTCSo excited for this as I read it every Christmas! Begging you to do Jane Eyre in 2024!
Jennifer Lewis
2023-12-03 12:24:21 +0000 UTCThank you for this lovely Christmas treat! And thank you for providing us with such high quality content year in and year out. You're Wrong about and you are good are the only two podcasts I have patron subscriptions to because of how much I appreciate ya'lls work. I saw someone suggest Alice in Wonderland, which I definitely second. 💕 happy holidays!
Kiki
2023-12-03 10:21:10 +0000 UTCTHIS IS SO DELIGHTFUL, THANK YOU SARAH! What a sweet, comforting Christmas gift.
lolouthia
2023-12-03 05:41:58 +0000 UTCThis is very cool. Please consider The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett for a future book pick! It has a hold on my heart almost as strong as the '90s film adaptation that made me a Colin Firth fan decades before I would realize I knew him as a child.
Toni Travis
2023-12-03 04:51:46 +0000 UTCAlice in Wonderland next please!
Rebekah Hinton
2023-12-03 04:41:16 +0000 UTCCan't wait. About time for my yearly rewatch/reread: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a-grand-yuletide-theory-the-muppet-christmas-carol-is-the-best-adaptation-of-a-christmas-carol/
Amy C
2023-12-03 04:17:07 +0000 UTCCan't wait. Reminds me of my yearly rewatch/reread: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a-grand-yuletide-theory-the-muppet-christmas-carol-is-the-best-adaptation-of-a-christmas-carol/
Amy C
2023-12-03 04:15:59 +0000 UTCthank you for making me a part of this
You're Wrong About
2023-12-03 04:12:04 +0000 UTCI can’t wait to listen to all of this!
Bart Roberts
2023-12-03 04:04:00 +0000 UTCLight the lamp, not the rat, LIGHT THE LAMP NOT THE RAT
Laura Bee
2023-12-03 03:58:35 +0000 UTCThank you so much, Sarah! ❤️
Gary Wismer
2023-12-03 03:58:09 +0000 UTC🎶🐀"This is my 🏝️ in the ☀️"🐀 🎶 😂😂
Taryn Raen
2023-12-03 03:55:32 +0000 UTCit is SO good and also radically faithful to the text!!
You're Wrong About
2023-12-03 03:52:48 +0000 UTCYesss thank you for an early holiday gift!! A local theatre is showing Muppet Christmas Carol this year (19+! With mulled wine!) and I am so excited to listen to this before going to the show.
Laura Bee
2023-12-03 03:50:11 +0000 UTCThere could not have been a better Christmas gift. Thank you.
April Spisak
2023-12-03 03:48:55 +0000 UTCLove, love, love. Thank you!!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2023-12-03 03:48:30 +0000 UTCMuppet version is always the best version 💙
Taryn Raen
2023-12-03 03:47:46 +0000 UTCI realized just now that I have never read A Christmas Carol. Thanks for everything this year and I can’t wait to tuck in for a listen. 🥰
Margaret Swift
2023-12-03 03:42:07 +0000 UTCMy Dad used to attempt to read me A Christmas Carol every holiday season as a kid, but most years we never really made it further than the Ghost of Christmas Past. I am so excited for this project! ✨
Abby Picard
2023-12-03 03:36:07 +0000 UTC
