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. Hello, welcome back.

Yes, I know.

We did not find out what the thing with Steerforth was in the last chapter.

I'm sorry, I didn't write this book.

I understand that that was really disappointing and that we're still here wanting to know. And all I can say is, well, we have to

keep reading because eventually we've got to find out, right? I mean, he can't just not tell us

ever. So we're going to get to it. I promise. It's going to happen. We're got to find out, right? I mean, he can't just not tell us ever. So we're going to get to it.

I promise it's going to happen. We're going to find out. We're going to keep reading today.

And we'll talk about the chapter we just read. And I promise that there is a point to that chapter.

And it does actually relate and that we're not just completely changing the topic here. So we are still

in this kind of narrative arc, this narrative flow, and he hasn't forgotten about us, I promise.

So we're going to talk about it and then we'll read on and hopefully we will get the information that

we want. But welcome. I'm so glad that you're here, that you haven't stormed off in a huff

because he didn't tell us about steerforth last time. Thank you for being here. Thank you for all

your wonderful letters. I love getting them even when the letters are like, what the heck, why?

Don't we know yet what's going on? I love hearing from you. and I love how invested you are in this book because

that's a beautiful thing. Even getting mad at the book is a beautiful thing because feeling something

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