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. Welcome to the other side of Frankenstein. We finished it. We did it. We made it through

spooky season. We made it through this book. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for coming along with me on this

journey.

You know, I wanted to say right at the start of this episode, I know that there were a lot of you who weren't so sure about this book when I announced it.

And you wrote in to say, oh, no, I don't want to read this book. It's going to be scary.

I don't think I want to join for this season. And many, many, many of you stuck around. And you stuck around because you trusted me. And I really, really appreciate that. I'm so humbled by that and so grateful. And you've been writing in to say that you're glad you did, that you're glad you stuck around because this book was not at all what you thought it was going to be. And I'm so glad to hear that.

I'm glad that it was okay. I'm glad that you made it. And I really do appreciate your trust. And I know there are some of you who didn't love this book, and that's okay too. We don't have to like all the books that we read on here. Just because I like them and choose them doesn't mean you have to like them. But I really do appreciate your trust in me, your sense that when I say it's not horror like Stephen King or, you know, scream or something like that, that it's not.

And I appreciate that.

And I am so glad that you're here.

But we made it.

We made it through.

And I know there's lots of you that love this book.

So I don't want to say, I don't want to be running it down. I love it too, obviously. So I just want to say, whoever you are, whatever you felt about the book before and now, thank you. Thank you for coming along with me on this journey to read Frankenstein. So today, as I say, this is the wrap-up. We are not going

to be reading anything else. Today, we are going to be talking at some length about the book.

We're going to talk about the ending, but we're also going to kind of zoom out and try to have a

little bit more of a big picture lens now that we know the whole story and come back to some of the themes that we've

been talking about throughout some of the big questions that came up. And I'm going to do my best

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