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.

Hi, welcome back. Is it starting to feel like fall where you are?

We are having the most beautiful fall weather where I am. It is totally not normal, but it is like,

you know, between 50 and 70 degrees every single day.

It's been this way for the past couple of weeks.

And so it doesn't really feel like spooky season yet, but it certainly feels like a beautiful fall, and I have my steaming cup of tea right next to me in my Storytime for Grownups Mug,

of course, and I'm ready. I'm ready for

fall, and I'm ready for this book, and I'm so glad to be here with you. Thank you for being here.

Thank you for joining me to listen to Frankenstein on Storytime for Grownups. I hope you

enjoyed the first part. I got lots of great letters. I'm going to read some to you today,

and we are diving into chapters

one and two today. We finished those letters, those introductory letters, and now we're into the

chapters. So we're going to do that. Before we get started and before we do a quick recap and read

the questions and all of that, I have a couple of announcements. Okay, this first one has been a long time coming, and I am really excited to tell you about. We have two new designs in the merch store. I was just talking about my Storytime for Grownups mug. We have a merch store. If you didn't know that, it's got all kinds of great designs based on the books that we've read. It's got the Storytime logo. You can get it on all

kinds of different things like mugs, but also shirts. There's baby clothes. There's tote bags. There's

all kinds of stuff in there. There are two new designs. Not the Frankenstein design yet.

That is coming, but it's not there yet. But if you have been with us since the very beginning,

or if you went back and listened to Jane

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