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. We made it. This is the last episode of summer session. I cannot believe it. I really feel like this summer has just flown by, and there's a lot of reasons for that, but one of them is how much fun it has been doing fairy tales with you. It's been, it truly has been a fairy tale summer, and I am so grateful to you for being a part of it and for joining me with you. It's been, it truly has been a fairy tale summer and I am so grateful to you for being a

part of it and for joining me with this and just coming along for this ride and enjoying all of

these fairy tales right along with me. So thank you. Thank you for being here for summer session.

Thank you for putting up with the once a week format while I stayed at home

with my kids and did summer things. I really appreciate that and I appreciate your understanding.

But we're here in the week where we go back to twice a week episodes. We have today, this is

going to be our final episode of summer session and then this Thursday. So

September 4th, we're going to start Frankenstein. We're not going to actually read any

Frankenstein, but we are going to have an intro episode, which we do every book that we start.

We have an intro episode where I just kind of give you a little bit of context to help you go

into this book so that you are prepared.

And we're going to do that on Thursday.

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