Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups.

I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

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. Sorry about my voice. You may notice that my voice is a little scratchy today. I'm a little bit under the weather, but I'm hanging in there. my voice is hanging in there, and I'm just

asking it, please, please hang in there until the end of this book. And I hope that it will.

I hope it's going to listen to me. But the chapters were recorded a while ago when my voice

was completely fine, so you don't have to listen to this scratchy voice for the whole time,

and you certainly don't have to listen to me trying to do all the voices with

a crazy weird voice. So that's a good thing, but I do apologize for the way it sounds right this

second. But welcome. I'm so glad you're here, weird voice or otherwise. I'm so glad to have you

here. And this is the penultimate episode of the book. We're going to read some chapters today. We're reading

chapters 57 through 58 of Pride of Prejudice by Jane Austen with a few notes along the way.

And then in Monday's episode, we're going to finish this book. I can't believe it. It's really

happening. So that's where we are. And so that means that you must be subscribed

because this Saturday, November 23rd, is when the trailer for our Christmas spectacular

is going to drop into your podcast feed. So please make sure that you are subscribed so that

you don't miss that. And on Monday, we'll reveal it on

here as well, just in case you did miss it somehow. And we'll talk a little bit about that.

But for now, that's what's coming on Saturday. So you'll get one extra little tiny episode

dropping into your podcast feed on Saturday just to tell you what we'll be reading for December.

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