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 is so lovely to be with you one more time in December. I hope you've enjoyed

the Christmas spectacular. It was so much fun to do. And I've loved having this story and all your

questions and comments and thoughts about it, be a part of my life

throughout the Christmas season. It's really made me think about my attitudes and my traditions

and the various kind of Christmas stressors that inevitably come up. It's made me think about

all of those things in a really new and different way. And I hope it's had that effect on you,

too, in some way. So thank you.

Thank you for being a part of this and for making this show what it is. So today we're going to

wrap up our conversation about a Christmas Carol. I have a few questions and comments that I'm

going to read. And I'll do my best to kind of tie up the various strands we've been discussing

so that we can leave this book and move on to the next.

Which brings me, just for a moment, before we do that, to the topic of the next book.

Did you catch the trailer?

Right?

If you didn't, we are reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

If you did miss the trailer, I do recommend that you check it out. It's probably

the episode that's right before this one in your podcast feed, because I do give a little bit

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