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. I'm so happy to be here with you. It's such a joy to do this podcast. It really is. And every time I turn on this mic, it just feels like we're together. I know we're not. But you're out there and I know you're out there. And I get your letters and it just feels like we're together. I know we're not, but you're out there and I know you're out there and I get your letters and it just feels like this beautiful community that has come to be around this show. And

I didn't even anticipate that when I started this show. I just thought we were going to read

some books together. But there you all are out there and I'm just so thrilled, so humbled. It really is

such a gift. So thank you. Thank you for being here and supporting the show by listening and all

the other things that you do to support it. I, this would be nothing without you. I couldn't do this

without you. So thank you for being here. Okay, so I told you last time that I would schedule the

next tea time

soon. I have done that. It is going to be Tuesday, October 28th at 8 p.m. Eastern. And what's

cool about that is we will have just finished the book. So the Monday before that day, the day before,

we will have finished Frankenstein. There will be one more episode after that.

That will be the wrap-up episode. And then, as I keep saying, we are going into Christmas early.

The Christmas Spectacular will begin in November. Watch out for that trailer. Make sure you're

subscribed. But it's going to be a really fun

tea time because we will get to talk about the end of the book together, and that's always a

really good time. So I hope that you'll join us. If you're new, if you don't know what

tea time is, tea time is a monthly voice chat that happens over in our online community, which is

called The Drawing Room, not because we draw a lot over there, but because every lovely old Victoria chat that happens over in our online community, which is called the drawing room. Not because

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