Hello and welcome to the story time for grown-ups' Christmas Spectacular. I'm Faith Moore,

and for the month of December, we'll be reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Each

episode, I'll read one chapter from the book, pausing from time to time to give brief explanations,

so it's easier to follow along. It's like an audiobook with

built-in notes. So brew a pot of tea or a mug of hot chocolate, find a cozy chair, throw another log on the fire,

and settle in. It's story time. Hello, happy December. It's finally here. We finally made it. It's December. I hope all of you

here in the States had a wonderful Thanksgiving. And for those of you that are not in the States,

I hope you had a wonderful Thursday, November 28th. I am so excited to be here with you. I cannot even tell you. This is the story

time for grown-ups Christmas Spectacular. It's going to be going on all December long, and we are

just getting started right this second. So if you are new to this podcast, if you're just finding

us for this book, for this Christmas spectacular, welcome.

This is a wonderful place to start. We just finished reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

And if you're interested in that, by the way, those episodes are still there. Just scroll down

in your podcast feed and you'll see them. And last January through May, we read Jane Eyre, and those episodes

are all still there. Just scroll even further down in your podcast feed. But now, for the month of

December, we are reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which is a book that I absolutely

love and I cannot wait to share it with you. It's one of those stories I think that most people

probably know, but far fewer of us have actually read, right? Maybe we've seen a movie or we just

know that Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser or whatever. But the book itself is such a beautiful

little gem of a story. And it's only five chapters long or five staves long. And I'm going to

explain what that means in a little bit. So it's only going to take us five episodes to read it.

But we're not going to start reading today. We're going to begin the actual book on Thursday.

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