Hello and welcome to Storytime for grownups.

I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

Each episode, I'll read one chapter 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. Welcome. Thank you so much for being here. This is the first ever episode of Storytime for grownups, and I could not be more thrilled to be starting this journey with you. Let me tell you a little bit

about what I hope this podcast will be.

The goal of story time for grownups is to help you learn to love classic literature,

or to love it even more if it's already your thing. 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 the plots intrigued us to begin with. But these books are classics for a reason.

We just need a way in. My hope is that the more you listen, the easier the language will seem.

For this first season, we're reading my favorite book of all time, Jane Eyre.

Each episode, I'll read one chapter aloud.

As I read, I'll stop to offer explanations for things that may not be clear to the modern reader,

word definitions, super quick, scene summaries, things like that.

I'll only stop when it seems necessary and I won't go on and on.

You can listen like an audiobook or follow along in a copy of your own.

If you'd like a summary of the chapter or a basic analysis, I've linked to the relevant

Cliffs Notes pages in the show notes.

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