Hello, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. I'm Karen Swallow Pryor. And you are listening to Close

Reads, a podcast for The Incurable Reader. And we are, of course, here to discuss Charlotte Bronte's

Jane Eyre. Thanks for listening in again. Karen, thanks for joining us. It's been wonderful to

have you here. It's been wonderful to be here. I love all the feedback

we're getting and excitement about this wonderful novel. So I'm pumped. So I should tell you a story.

This morning here at the bookstore, we did our first story time for kids. And a mom came in with

her kids, and they've come in several times before. And it turns out she is a

Karen Swallow Pryor fan, superfan maybe. Not number one fan, as long as not number one. She didn't,

she didn't make any claims to be the number one fan. She said she, she talked about how much she loves

you. She bought a copy of the Janeane air book yay so you have it but

you have it back in stock because you had sold out so yeah okay good good we got them back in stock

we've got a nice big section on the shelves and you know the great thing is they take up a lot of space

so they do that's a little secret of turns out of owning a bookstore is that the more things that fill, you know, more space, that's always good.

So, yeah, we are here to discuss, Jane here.

We're going to discuss chapters 12 through 16.

Now, that takes us to the end of book one, no, volume one, I guess is what it's called, and then into the first chapter of volume

two. And Heidi, could you give us a little bit of a summary of what happened in these chapters?

You can do it in broad strokes, of course. We'll give you one minute. How about we do that?

And I think that's helpful because a lot of people have said that, you know, I've mentioned that they're listening, but they're not necessarily reading along with us this time. It's just a book they've read a bunch. So it's just, I think it just helps to place us in the story for people who don't know exactly exactly what chapter is 12 through 16 cover. They don't have it memorized that well. All right,

I've rambled on for about 30 seconds. Which of course does not include any of your contributors on the podcast who might only vaguely know what happened in these times. I'm like so glad he didn't

ask me. I can do it if we need to. All right.

In chapters 12 through 16, the story that's covered, and this reading begins with Jane settling into her new life at Thornfield.

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