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 chair, and settle in. It's story time. Hi, welcome back.

I feel like at some point on Monday evening, I started to hear the sound of all of you cheering because I have never received so many emails

about one episode as I have received about Chapter 14 and it's warranted because you guys are

all writing in to say how excited and happy you are about what happened in Chapter 14 and also how wonderful it was

to listen to Miss Betsy just like give it to the Mirdstone. So I could hear you. I hear you all

and thank you for your emails. It's wonderful to get those. It's so fun and exciting when

everybody kind of rises up together and says the same thing,

that we're all feeling the same way. And that's what great literature can do. That's what this book

is doing. And I'm so, so happy to be a part of this podcast and sharing this with you.

Because we're all out there. We don't really know each other, although we've gotten to know

each other in various ways, but we're all out there and living our various lives.

But we are all feeling the same thing at the same time or almost at the same time about a person who doesn't even exist named David Copperfield.

And that is a beautiful, beautiful thing. And it's why I love this podcast so much, one of the many

reasons. So thank you for being here. Thank you for writing in. Thank you for listening to this

book and for caring about this boy, David Copperfield, caring about this book and books

in general. And it's just a wonderful, beautiful thing. I also wanted to say thank you, by the way,

to those of you who joined us for tea time on Tuesday. It was a really fun conversation. It was

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