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Storytime for Grownups

A Little Princess: Chapter 9

Storytime for Grownups

Faith Moore

Arts, Books

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Storytime for Grownups Christmas Spectacular! We are celebrating a Victorian Christmas by reading A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett a few chapters at a time, with a few notes along the way. It's like an audio book with built in notes. So brew a pot of tea, find a cozy chair, and settle in. It's storytime! To join the Klavan family livestream on 11/28 at 4pm Eastern, click here To submit a question for the livestream, click here To pick up a copy of Faith's novel, Chr...

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0:00.0

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

0:08.0

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

0:13.0

A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

0:16.0

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.

0:24.8

It's like an audiobook with built-in notes.

0:27.8

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

0:35.9

It's story time.

0:49.0

Music a cozy chair and settle in. It's story time. Hello, happy Thanksgiving.

0:51.5

If you're listening in real time when this episode drops, then it is in fact

0:56.6

Thanksgiving Day right now. So happy Thanksgiving. I hope that whatever you're doing,

1:02.5

it's bringing you joy. This is bringing me joy, talking to you right now on this podcast.

1:08.0

I confess I am not actually talking to you on Thanksgiving Day.

1:11.8

This is pre-recorded as it always is, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to get it out to you

1:15.9

on the day when it drops. But I have found so much joy in creating this podcast and sharing it with you

1:25.0

and getting to know so many of you via your emails and your comments on

1:31.6

the drawing room and all these other ways that we connect. And I am feeling just so thankful for you

1:38.8

all right now. And I just wanted to say that. I wanted to let you know on this Thanksgiving

1:44.1

day how grateful I am that you are here, that you're listening, that you're a part of this community. You know, this podcast was just like a whim that I had. It was an idea that popped into my head and I thought, hey, that could work. That could be fun. And I had no idea what it was going to become. I sat down at

2:02.9

my computer with my microphone and started reading you guys Jane Eyre. And I had no idea if anyone

2:07.8

would ever listen or would be out there. And you are. You're out there and you're listening and you're

2:14.2

participating. And I could not be more humbled, more grateful than I am.

2:20.5

I'm just so thrilled that you are here. So thank you. Thank you for being a part of story

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