Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups.

I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

Each episode I'll read a few chapters 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 brew a pot of tea, find a cozy which is kind of interesting. It's been

interesting to go outside and think like, okay, this is what it feels like in Antarctica. So now I know

that. But now that I know it, I'm kind of ready to stop having to experience it. But it does make,

as I said before, it does make my cup of tea that much more warm and wonderful and cozy.

I have also been enjoying some hot chocolate. I know we have some hot chocolate fans out there,

and sometimes I'll go for that instead, because sometimes you need to just wrap your hands around

a warm mug. And so I hope that wherever you are and whatever you are doing, you are

warm and cozy, that your hands are wrapped around a warm mug, maybe only in your imagination,

but that's okay too. Whatever you're doing, I hope that you're at least virtually or in your

imagination, warm and cozy and dry and sitting in your cozy chair, where you're at least virtually or in your imagination warm and cozy and dry and sitting in your

cozy chair with your pot of tea at your side, even if that's just something that you're

imagining right now. I hope you are imagining it and that this podcast feels like that

cozy chair and that lovely warm pot of tea. I wish I could pour you a cup right now. But imagine that I

am doing that and welcome. I am so glad that you're here. I'm excited to read another chapter

of this wonderful book with you. Thank you for all of your letters and your comments. I love

reading those and I know we have a lot of feelings and thoughts about this book. I think perhaps more

than any book that we've read so far, there's just a lot of kind of emotional outpouring, which I

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