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 to tea time on Tuesday. It was another really fun chat. I was saying this to the people that were there, but the time really always

just flies right by. Sometimes I start and I'm talking to you and I'm thinking, oh, are we going to

have enough to talk about? And then, whoosh, it's nine o'clock already and the hour has flown by.

So I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who was there and who was chatting with me,

and I really appreciate that you're supporting the show in that way. So thank you for coming to

Tea Time on Tuesday. It was lovely, as always. If you would like to join for the next Tea Time and

you're not yet a member of the drawing room, which is our online community, you can scroll into the show

notes and click on the link that's there. You can learn more about the various membership tiers that we have, and you can sign up if you would like to. I hope that you will. I'm always so happy to chat with my friends over there, and I love to check in on the drawing room in general and just see what people are talking about. There's always new comments every time I check, so it's very active

over there. So if you're looking for some new friends to chat with about David Copperfield

or any of the other books that we've read on Storytime or books in general or life, it's the

drawing room of our lovely Victorian mansion. The podcast itself is the main room, and then we get to withdraw to the withdrawing room,

like fancy Victorian ladies and gentlemen, and keep on talking about these books if we want to.

So I hope that you'll join us over there.

It was really, really fun, so thank you for being there for tea time.

Okay, but now we are back in the main room.

It's time to get back to our friend David,

David Copperfield, and see what he's been up to. So just all the usual reminders,

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