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 so glad to be here with you. I know it sort of sounds silly, but I really am. I'm just so happy to be here with you. I'm just so happy to be here with you. What a joy it is to get to do this podcast.

I was talking to someone just the other day and explaining what I do and I just was thinking,

wow, this is a gift.

This is amazing.

So thank you for letting me do this.

I couldn't do it if you weren't there listening.

So thank you so much for being here and for tuning in.

And David thanks you as well and all the wonderful characters

that Dickens has left behind him. Thank you for wanting to spend all of this time in their

world and getting to know them because these books, these stories are also nothing without

you. If nobody reads them, these characters can't live and these worlds can't be real. And so you are doing that without you. If nobody reads them, these characters can't live and these worlds

can't be real. And so you are doing that for this book. You're doing it for each other. And I'm just

so grateful that we get to do this. So here we are. Last time we read chapter 28. Today we're

going to be reading chapter 29. It's a shorter chapter this time,

as you may have noticed when you opened up your podcast player, but that's okay. Summer long, some are short. It all evens out in the end. I did promise that I would let you know the date of the next tea time today, and I am ready to do that. It's going to be April 30th, which is a Thursday. That's different usually or often it's on a Tuesday, but there's, it doesn't have to be on a Tuesday, and this time it's not. It's on a Thursday, which is April 30th at 8 p.m. Eastern in our online community, the drawing room. If you don't know what tea time is, it is a voice chat that we do every month. It's kind of like a group phone call. I'm there,

you're there. We can hear each other, but not see each other. And we talk for about an hour

about the book. We talk about our impressions of where we are in the book so far. You can also

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