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. Welcome back to the week before Christmas. Can you believe it? It is the week before Christmas.

And there are only two staves left of this book. I cannot believe it. We are about to read

stave four of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Welcome. I'm so glad that you're here. Thank you for

being here with me to celebrate the Christmas season with this amazing book. And thank you to all

of you who've been writing in with your questions and your comments and your thoughts and just your

compliments and your kind letters. I and just your your compliments and your

kind letters. I really do appreciate it. It's made my December so joyful and I'm thrilled.

So some of you, many of you have been asking, what are we reading next? And I feel like that is a

valid question because as I say, we are almost done. We have today's episode. We've

got one more chapter after that. And then there will be one final Christmas Carol episode that'll

be a kind of wrap-up episode where we talk about stave five because we won't have been able to

talk about it until we read it. So we will talk about stave five in a concluding episode and we'll

wrap up kind of all of the

things that we've been talking about on Monday, December 23rd. And so that will be the final

episode of a Christmas Carol. And then what's next? So I am not going to tell you right now what we

are going to be reading next. If you're new here, I like to keep you all in suspense and then I drop a trailer into your podcast feed and that lets you know what the next book is.

So the trailer for season three of Storytime for grownups, our January book, will drop on Saturday,

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