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 everyone. Welcome back and happy October. We made it to October. It is officially

spooky season, if that's your thing. So I'm so glad to be here with you. Thank you for joining me today.

The fact that it is October means that we

are pretty much exactly halfway through this book. This book is going to take us just about two

months to read. We started it at the very beginning of September, so it is now the very beginning

of October, which means that we are halfway through. So last time I said that when it became October,

I would give you a little teaser

about what would happen next after we finished Frankenstein. So we're going to finish

Frankenstein on October 30th. That will be our wrap-up episode. I always do one at the very

end of each book where we just kind of tie up any loose ends. We have more of a

big picture discussion, so we don't read any book that day, but we just kind of conclude everything,

so we feel like we've had some closure and we can move on to the next thing. So that is going to be

October 30th. That's a Thursday. It's the day before Halloween, so it's the perfect time

to end our reading of Frankenstein. And then we will not take any kind of break. The next

episode will come out on Monday, which is November 3rd. So then we'll be into November. Now,

normally, I am a purist about when Christmas begins, when the Christmas

season begins. And I know that different people have different opinions about this. But

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