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 and your questions are great. Your comments are great. So I'm just thrilled to be here. I hope you are too. Thanks for joining me. Before we get started, I want to let you know that I have scheduled our next tea time over in our online community, the drawing room. It's going to be Thursday again. So it's going to be Thursday, May 28th at 8 p.m. Eastern. And of course, I'll remind you as we get closer, but I just wanted to let you know for those of you who like to mark your calendars. I know there are some of you, and I am very grateful for that. So if you don't know what I am talking about, tea time is a monthly voice chat that we have over in our online community. As I say, it's called the drawing room,

not because we like to do a lot of drawing over there, but because it is the withdrawing room.

Every old Victorian house would have had a withdrawing room where you would withdraw after dinner with your guests or with your family to read or talk, play games, play music. And we have one

of those. It's just online. The podcast itself is

the main room of our lovely old Victorian mansion, and the drawing room is our drawing room.

And if you're not yet a member, it's easy to do. You just scroll into the show notes. There's a

link that's there. Click on it. We have a couple of different membership tiers. In order to join

tea time, you have to be landed gentry. But if you'd like to just join a community of other people who are listening to these books along with you and talking about it, it's very active over there. You'll always find people making comments about the latest episode and also about the other books that we've read and things. So if you'd like to do that, you can be a house guest and you won't do tea time, but you can be part of the community. So I hope that you'll click that link if you haven't already. If you'd like to join us for tea time and you're a house guest, you can absolutely change your membership and become landed gentry. So again, it's going to be Thursday, May 28th at 8 p.m. Eastern, and I hope that you will join us.

And again, I'll remind you as we get closer, but put that on your calendar if that is of interest

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