Hello and welcome to Storytime for Grownups. I'm Faith Moore, and this is summer session.

Normally on Story Time for Grownups, we read classic literature, a few chapters at a time with a few

notes along the way, like an audiobook with built-in notes. But during the summer, we switch

things up a little. From now until September,

we will be in summer session, which is sort of like a college class, only fun. This summer,

we're exploring fairy tales and their relationship to the books we've read this year on

storytime and storytelling more broadly. We'll do this in once-a-week episodes, which will drop

on Mondays. If this doesn't sound like your thing, don't worry. Storytime will be back with a new

book in September. But for now, brew a pot of tea, find a cozy chair, and settle in. Class

is in session. Hi everyone. Welcome back. I'm really happy to be back with you. I missed you for the time that I was away. I hope you enjoyed that interview with Spencer, though. That was really fun to do, and I hope that you guys had fun listening to it. But I'm back, and I'm thrilled to be here. Thank you to those of you who joined us for tea time. That was really fun last week. We had a lovely chat and I'm just always so

grateful to find you all there in the drawing room at tea time. So thank you to those of you who are

supporting the show by being a part of the drawing room, even if you didn't make it to tea time or

if you're in the house guest level. Whatever you're doing over there, thank you for being a part of that. And for those of

you who are not a part of the drawing room but would like to be, it's not too late. Another tea time will

come again. So if you are interested in that, just scroll into the show notes and take a look at

the links that are there and one of them will guide you to the page where you can sign up to be a part of

the drawing room, which is our online community. It's where we meet after the show and we chat

with each other about all kinds of things. It's lovely over there, very active, so if you

go over there, you will find new friends, I guarantee it. So I hope that you will check that

out if you're interested. All right. So you may have noticed that

it's August, happy August, but also I keep telling you that in August, the trailer for September's

book is going to drop. So you may be wondering when exactly is that going to happen because, yes,

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