Hello and welcome to the Storytime for grown-ups' Christmas Spectacular.

I'm Faith Moore, and for the months of November and December, we'll be reading A Little

Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

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 gather

your family together, brew a pot of tea or a mug of hot chocolate, find a cozy chair, and settle

in. It's story time. Hi everyone. Welcome back. I'm so happy to be here with you today. I hope that you are gathered around with your

family, if only in your mind. You know, a lot of you sometimes write in to say, oh, you know, I wish I

could sit down with my cozy cup of tea and my cozy chair, but I'm always rushing around. And I

always write back, that's okay. It's not that I think that you should all sit down in a cozy

chair, although I do think that would be wonderful. It's that I hope that this podcast

feels like your cozy chair and feels like your lovely cup of tea. And right now, this Christmas

season, I hope this podcast feels like gathering together with friends and family to listen to a wonderful

story and talk about it together. So I hope that that's what this is for you, or at least what

this is becoming. It certainly is what it is for me. And I'm so grateful to you for that. I've

been thinking a lot about that as we approach Thanksgiving. I'm so thankful for you and for this show, and I

couldn't be more thrilled with what it is and what it's becoming. So thank you for being here.

Thanks for listening. So a couple of housekeeping things, I know there's been a lot of housekeeping

lately because we're doing all these fun things, and I know it's made these intros a little

long. So I'm going to try to keep it as brief as I possibly can. But I do want to announce what the next prize is for the prize

drawing. So remember, if you buy a copy of my book, Christmas Carol, and you follow the directions

on the Storytime for Grownups page, then you will be entered into a prize drawing. You can also get a

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