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 to Storytime for grownups. I'm so glad you're here. I hope you're doing well. I have a little bit of a cold, and I hope it's not going to affect my voice too much. I've been a little scratchy today. So I just want to let you know that is what's happening.

I have a little cold. It's fine. I recorded the chapters earlier, so they are completely fine.

But in this intro, I may be a little scratchy. Sorry about that. All right, moving right along and into this episode. So again, I just want to remind you of these two dates that are coming up.

One is Tuesday, October 28th at 8 p.m. Eastern.

That is our tea time for October over in the drawing room, which is our online community.

And I'm reminding you because in order to join that, you need to be a member of the landed

gentry tier in the drawing room. And if you have

no idea what I'm talking about, scroll into the show notes and click on the link to the online community

and it will tell you more. But I know that some of you are house guests and that's completely fine.

You just won't be able to join us for tea time. So if you want to join us for

tea time and you've just signed up, make sure that you're landed gentry. If you'd like to

join us for tea time and you haven't yet signed up, you should sign up for the landed gentry

tier. And tea time is a voice chat. We talk to each other, like a group phone call. And this is

going to be a really fun one because we will have just finished Frankenstein the day before. So we'll be able to talk about the end of the book and the book as a whole. And you can ask me anything so we can talk about all kinds of things, not just the book, but we will be talking about the book, Frankenstein, the end of it and our thoughts and reactions now that the book is done. And you can also ask me anything. So that'll be a really fun tea time. So I hope you can join us on Tuesday, October 28th at 8 p.m. Eastern over in the drawing room. And this is a great time to sign up if you've been considering it, but you haven't been sure if you wanted to. This is a great time.

You can find out what tea time is all about. And if you hate it, then you can cancel. So check the link in the show notes, click on that, and that'll take you to the page where you can sign up if you want to. And I hope to hear some new voices in our chat on the 28th. And of course, I'm really looking forward to chatting with all of my old friends.

It's always lots and lots of fun.

So I hope to see you there. our chat on the 28th. And of course, I'm really looking forward to chatting with all of my old

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