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. I'm not sure if you can tell, but my voice is just a little bit

scratchy today, so I'm sorry, I apologize for that. A sore throat has been making its way

through my family, and I'm the next victim but luckily

the chapter was recorded in advance so you won't have to listen to my scratchy voice

during the actual reading of the chapter but you do have to put up with it unfortunately

for this intro and I hope it doesn't give out on me, but hopefully you understand. It's that season.

Anyway, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for joining me again on Storytime for grownups.

I want to just quickly remind you that tea time is coming up. Tea time is our monthly voice chat

over in our online community which is called

the drawing room it's coming on tuesday january 27th so that's a week from tomorrow so january

27th at 8 p.m eastern and you have to be a member of the landed gentry membership tier to

participate in that it It's really fun.

It's like we chat for an hour. I'm there. You guys are there. You can talk to me and to each other if you

want or you can just listen. We talk about the book, of course, but also I answer any questions that

you have so you can ask me anything. And often we also just talk about other things

like what other books were reading or things that are coming up for us as we listen to this book.

So it's a really fun, cozy time. And I hope that you will join us. If you would like to join us

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