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.

Oh, Victor, don't do it. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Storytime for grown-ups. Welcome to our cozy room where the fire is blazing and the wind is starting to pick up outside, isn't it?

And the leaves are starting to rattle on the trees.

But don't worry, we're together and we're safe in here.

But things are getting a little, I don't know, a little dicey here in Frankenstein.

And I'm here to talk to you about it.

I cannot wait.

I'm so excited.

I got lots of great comments and questions this time.

So we're going to get into it.

I do want to just remind you before we get started that next week is tea time for September.

It is the 23rd.

So Tuesday, September 23rd at 8 p.m. Eastern, we'll be meeting in our online community, the drawing room, for our monthly voice chat, which is called tea time. So a little bit closer to that cozy room. I wish it could be real. I wish we could all be together in that cozy room. But tea time is our way of trying to do that virtually. So it's a time when we all get together, those of you who are signed up for

the drawing room in the landed gentry membership tier. And we chat. We will be talking about

this book. We will be talking about some questions. I always do ask me anything,

so you can ask anything. Sometimes people post some questions in the chat over in the drawing

room, so I've already got some that we'll be discussing, and you can bring your own. You can talk

in the call if you want to, or you can just listen, and it's a lovely time for us to really come together.

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