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, everyone. Welcome back. Thanks for coming back and for joining me on Storytime for grownups.

Don't you just wish every moment of every day could be sitting around reading great books and talking about great books. I don't know. Maybe that's just me. I do. But that's why I'm always so happy to be here with you because that's what we get to do. So thanks for being here and welcome. Welcome back. I got some great questions and comments after the first chapter. So I'm excited to share those with you. And then of, I'm also excited to share this next chapter of David Copperfield. We're really in it,

you guys. We've started. We're on this journey together, and I am so happy and thrilled to be here.

Just a couple of quick reminders. The first is I promise to tell you when our next tea time is going

to be, and I have now scheduled that. So that is going to be

on Tuesday, January 27th, at 8 p.m. Eastern. Tea times, for those of you who don't know, are our monthly

voice chats over in our online community, which is called the drawing room, because it's where we

withdraw after the show to keep talking and keep hanging out together because

this is just so much fun. So if you are already a member, then great. Please join us on the 27th.

If you're not, there's a link in the show notes in the description of this episode to click on it

and find out more about the drawing room and then you can decide if you want to

sign up. And if you do sign up, then you can join us on the 27th. If you are a member of the

landed gentry, there's a couple of different membership tiers. So the landed gentry is the

one that gives you access to the voice chats. If you are currently a house guest, but you'd like to

try out tea time, you can also

shift your membership by going to that same link and it will take you through that process. So

you can switch to Landig Entry if you'd like to join us. So I hope that you will. Again,

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