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Storytime for Grownups

Introducing Storytime for Grownups Season 5!

Storytime for Grownups

Faith Moore

Arts, Books

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Storytime for Grown-Ups is a podcast that will help you learn to love classic literature. Whether we choose to admit it or not, many of us find the great books of the past inaccessible. The language is dense, the vocabulary is unfamiliar, and the characters seem old-fashioned. Too often, these books are thrown aside as boring or too difficult even if their plots intrigued us to begin with. But these books are classics for a reason—we just need a way in. Beginning in January, host Faith ...

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0:00.0

Of all my books, said the author of our next selection, I like this the best.

0:15.0

That's pretty high praise coming from a giant of the literary world, an author whose works are the very definition

0:23.4

of classic. And if this book was his favorite, it's more than likely it's going to become ours.

0:32.2

It will be easily believed, this author went on, that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy,

0:40.3

and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But like many fond parents,

0:47.5

I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child, and his name is David Copperfield. I'm Faith Moore. Join me for season

0:59.6

five of Storytime for grown-ups as we read David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, a few chapters

1:07.5

at a time with a few notes along the way, like an audiobook with built-in notes.

1:12.6

We begin on Monday, January 5th, with episodes dropping every Monday and Thursday wherever you get your podcasts.

1:21.3

So brew a pot of tea, find a cozy chair, and settle in.

1:26.9

It's story time.

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