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 many letters from you guys. This was another one. Uriah Heap. Oh my gosh, what a slime ball. We're

going to talk about him today and what's going on there. But before we do that, I have been starting

to get some questions, which I completely understand. I've been starting to get some questions

about what book are we going to do next, what's going to happen over the summer,

just some logistical questions, which I understand because this is the time in the year

when normally we would be finishing up a book. And that's when I normally get these questions.

And so I wanted to just kind of keep you updated. And I know that some of you, this is your first

book with Storytime for Grownups, which is fantastic. And so, you know, you're asking, how do we find

out what the next book is going to be and all of that? So I just wanted to give a quick update,

which is that to remind you that because David Copperfield is so long, there won't be a summer

session this summer. Summer session is what we

normally do in between the book that begins in January and the book that begins in September,

and we do it because I'm a stay-at-home mom. My kids are home from school with me during the

summer, and normally I am not able to put out two episodes of a book every week the way that we do

during the school year. And so we do summer session, which is a kind of, I always say it's kind of like

a college class only fun, but the show goes to once a week and we pick a topic and we explore that

for the summer last summer. It was fairy tales. We had a fairy tale summer that was really fun. The summer before that, we pick a topic and we explore that for the summer. Last summer, it was fairy tales. We had a

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