Bonus Episode: Gretchen Rubin Reads Charles Dickens’s Timeless Story, “A Christmas Carol.” Part II.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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As a holiday gift for listeners, I read a story: Charles Dickens’s timeless ghost story, “A Christmas Carol.” These days, while many people have a general impression of the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts , they probably haven’t actually read or heard the story. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.0	Hello, I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a bonus episode of Happier with Gretchen Rubin.
0:42.0	Charles Dickens' Timeless Masterpiece, A Christmas Carol.
0:47.0	In the last episode, I read the first half of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
0:52.0	Here I finished that timeless story.
1:01.0	Steve III, The Second of the Three Spirits.
1:05.0	Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together,
1:11.0	Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of one.
1:16.0	He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time for the special purpose of holding a conference
1:23.0	with the second messenger dispatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention.
1:29.0	But, finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this new specter would draw back.
1:35.0	He put them everyone aside with his own hands and lying down again, established a good look out all around the bed.
1:42.0	For he wished to challenge the spirit on the moment of its appearance and did not wish to be taken by surprise and made nervous.
1:49.0	Gentlemen of the free and easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with O'Moover 2 and being usually equal to the time of day,
1:57.0	express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch and toss to manslaughter.
2:05.0	Between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.
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