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, welcome back.

Hello, welcome back. This is the fourth episode of our Christmas spectacular here at

Storytime for grownups, and we are going to be reading Stave 3 of Charles Dickens'

A Christmas Carol with a few notes along the way, and I'm so happy that you are here.

If you are joining us for the first time, if you just found us and you're jumping in with us right now,

this is a show where we read classic books chapter by chapter. We talk about them a little bit

at the beginning, and then we actually read them out loud with a few notes along the way to help them seem a little bit easier to understand. So you may want to

pause this episode and go back to the very first episode of the Christmas Spectacular. So

they're labeled a Christmas Carol, and you may want to go back to that very first one, because

we are about to read the third chapter of this book, and you may want to go back to that very first one, because we are about to read the third

chapter of this book, and you probably want to begin at the very beginning. So do that, and then

you can binge your way right back to us, or you can listen at whatever speed you choose, and all

of those episodes will still be there for you, as well as all the episodes of the other

books that we've read. So far, we have read Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, and we are now

reading A Christmas Carol. And all of those books, all of those episodes are there in the podcast

feed. Just scroll on down and you'll find them all. And I hope that you will go back and listen to

some of the other books if you haven't already.

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