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

Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Jane Eyre. We're here to

discuss chapters 28 through 33, which means that we are coming to the end. We're on the back

nine. I don't know, whatever metaphor you want to use. We're almost done. We got this

week, then next week, and then a Q&A episode. Before we dive into that, though, I wanted to

remind people that there's a lot of other content that they can check out. They can check out

the daily poem, of course, and we do have our Patreon exclusive episodes where right now we are

working through the Lord of the Rings. We just recorded the episode for the two towers, the last episode on the two towers. So we're going to jump into the return

of the king next. So if you're interested in any of that, you can, you know, subscribe wherever

you get podcasts and so on and so forth. Just wanted to remind you that such things exist.

Karen, before we dive in, anything you want to pitch, promote? For readers who or listeners

who don't know, I have a new column at Religion News Service that started a few months ago. So I have

a monthly column at RNS. And so you can check out my column there. Nice. And, of course, you can also

buy the new books. Yes, of course.

Frankenstein and Jane Eyre. If you don't, I mean, you probably already have them, but, you know,

in the off chance that you don't, or you might have a mother in your life for whom these would make a good

mother. A mother or a graduate. These are wonderful graduation gifts. I'll, I will promote that. Yes. I actually have a section in

the store here for graduates. And it's right there, right there on the graduate section. So I was right. And

you were right. So yeah, we're here to discuss Janios chapters 28 through 33. And I think I can

summarize what happened in this one for you all

this time. Here's what happened. Janeair was poor. She got rich. That's it. That's basically

what happened. Wow. That's good. Although, to be fair, in between, she did meet some new

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