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.

So did you catch the trailer? The trailer dropped.

If you missed it, go back.

Turn me off for one second.

Go listen to the trailer first, then come back.

I'm about to tell you what the next book is, and it's way more fun if you listen to the trailer first.

But whether you caught it or not, I am now going to reveal that the next book that we will be reading

in just a couple of weeks is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I hope you're as excited as I am.

I'm getting your emails with your reactions. Keep those coming. I'm responding individually to you

and I am saving some. I like to read your reactions at the start of each season. So I'm not

going to read any right now, but keep those coming because I am getting those and I am saving them up

and I will share them with you because it's really fun to hear how everybody's feeling at the start

of a season. So I usually do that in the intro episode. So I will do that and I'm saving those.

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