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. You know, it's officially fall now, which is perfect for us because

this is the perfect book for fall. And so I hope that you're enjoying your fall weather wherever

you are and whatever fall weather means to you. I know we have some

listeners in Australia, so actually it's not fall there at spring. So I hope you're enjoying whatever

season it is for you and reading this book during this time. I certainly am. It's such a joy

to be reading with you. So thank you for being here. I wanted to say also thank you to those of you

who came to the tea time that

we had this past Tuesday. It was really fun. We spent actually most of the time talking about

these what I've been calling short essay questions, these philosophical questions that have been

coming up, like what's your responsibility to a creature you create? Should you create a creature

just because you can? All of these things, we talked about the ways that all of these questions

connect to modern times and how amazing and wonderful it is that this book from so many years ago

is still relevant now. And it was great. It was a really fun time. So thank you to those of you

who came and were there. And thank you to all of you who support the show by being a part of the drawing room, our online community. If you'd like to be a part of it, if you missed tea time and you missed signing up and you want to, you can sign up. There will be another tea time in October. I haven't scheduled it yet, but when I do,

I will announce it here. If you'd like to learn more about the drawing room, just scroll into the

show notes or what's the description of this episode, basically, and click on the link that's there,

and you'll learn more. While you're down there, check out the other links that are there. There's the merch store.

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