Hey, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Sean Johnson.

And you were listening to Close Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

We are discussing in particular the last five-ish chapters of Book the Second.

So it ends at the end of Book the second because that's how math and logic work.

It means that we're at the end.

We're at the section right before Charles Darnay heads off to France out of a sense of duty.

And we will get into that and many more things here on this episode.

We'll do a summary as well.

I know a couple people have been asking for summaries because like Sean did this week,

sometimes people read ahead or sometimes people have read this book in the past

until they're not reading with us exactly now or exactly according to our schedule.

And so we will try to oblige on that.

That is a perfectly valid and fair request that we will try to accommodate.

We're trying to keep for some reason.

In a lack of professional, yeah, skipping chapters, yeah.

In a lack of professionalism, forget to mention it.

So, Sean and Heidi, if I ever forget to suggest that we do a summary,

feel free to slap me upside the head digitally.

Hang you on the lamp hole.

Yeah.

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