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. Thank you so much for being here. I'm so glad to be here with you. This podcast brings me so much joy. I keep thinking about that. I guess it's the Christmas season and we're all thinking about joy or maybe we're not, but I am. And this podcast brings me joy and you bring me joy. And that's why the podcast brings me joy because you're out there. And I just wanted to say thank you for being here. I wanted to say thank you to those of you who came to tea time on Tuesday. That was a really fun conversation.

I thought the hour just flew by. It always does. And I was so thrilled to hear some new voices

in our tea time chat and of course to catch up with my old friends. And so thank you for being

there if you were there. And I really

appreciate that. Okay. Well, I have a lot to tell you about it. I'm going to try to keep it quick here

at the beginning. But I do have a couple of announcements, one of which I'm really, really excited about.

But first, just a quick reminder about our prize right now, the prize that we have,

we have these prize drawings going on, right?

And the prize right now is a membership

at the Landed Gentry level in our online community,

the drawing room, which relates to what I was just talking about,

because Landed Gentry is the membership level

that allows you to join in on tea times.

The next tea time will be in January.

We'll have finished this book.

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