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! Well, Hello, welcome back. Thank you for being here. I hope you enjoyed our intro episode. It's time now to get into the book. This is it. We're going to start Frankenstein today. If you haven't done this already, please make sure that you are subscribed to the show. If you're not, you'll have to come looking for the episodes and you might find them out of

order and it might get confusing. But if you're subscribed, they will drop right into your

podcast feed automatically every Monday and Thursday in order, in the order that we're reading them,

because we are really going to read this entire book together through the months of September and October, starting today, and then every Monday

and Thursday. Also, I'm going to start taking questions from you guys. I have a lot of comments

that I want to read to you at the start of this episode in the place where I normally read your

questions and have a little discussion.

But ordinarily, we would begin with your questions and comments about the chapters that we read last time. So, of course, we haven't read anything yet. That's why I don't have any questions

and comments about the chapters this time. But I do want to let you know how to get in touch with me.

It's faith kmore.com. And then you click on contact. There's a form there and you fill it out and it goes right to my email and I will get it. And I feature one or two of those questions and comments at the start of every episode. And that's our way of discussing the book together. And this is a really juicy book. We're going to have a lot of deep dives. I know it already.

So we want to get those questions and comments in. So you can write to me at any time. Again, faithkameur.com, click on contact. There's also a link to that contact page in the show notes of this episode and every episode. The show notes are just the description of this episode. So when you click on the episode to listen to it. If you scroll down, you'll see a bunch of text.

Some of it is just telling you that we are storytime for grownups, we're reading Frankenstein, et cetera, et cetera. But there are also a bunch of links. One of those links is the contact page and you can find it that way as well. And I always say this, you're never bothering me. This really is an interactive podcast. I think you'll see as we go along.

So please, if you have something that you're not understanding, something you'd like more

clarity about, or something that really interests you, something that sparks your curiosity,

then you can send that my way, and I might use it in the show to help us to dive more deeply

into the book. So please do get in touch that way. Also, in the show notes, as I said, there are other links so you can explore those. You can find our merch store. You can find our online community. You can find all kinds of things there. I won't go into it all now because I'm too excited to start this book with you. But you can check out those links if you're interested. And if you enjoy the show, please tap the five stars. Please leave a positive review wherever you're listening.

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