Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups. I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 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. We made it. This is it. This is the final episode of Frankenstein, you guys.

Actually, there'll be one more episode. I'll talk about that in a minute. But this is the final

chapter that we are about to read today.

So thank you for being here. Thank you for coming along with me on this journey through

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, through spooky season. I'll say much more about this in the next

episode, but I really am so grateful always for all of you who are out there listening, but particularly this time, because I know that some of you weren't so sure about this book, and I'm so grateful always for all of you who are out there listening, but particularly this time,

because I know that some of you weren't so sure about this book, and I know some of you have

come along for the ride because you trusted me, and I really, really do appreciate that trust.

I'm so grateful for it. So thank you for being here for Frankenstein. So yeah, this is our

last episode of chapters. Then on Thursday, we will have

a concluding episode where we won't read any more book because there'll be no more book to read,

but we will kind of wrap things up, right? We will have read this final part, so we have to

talk about that. And in talking about that and answering some of your

questions, I will try to kind of tie it all up with a lovely bow, although this is not a book that

goes very well with a lovely bow, but we'll do our best. Maybe the bow will be black. We'll tie it all up,

and then we'll be ready to put it behind us and move joyfully into our Christmas spectacular, our Victorian Christmas,

which is coming up. So that will begin on November 3rd. So there won't be any break, right? The

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