Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups. I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. 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.

It's story time. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. Okay, we're getting right down to it now. The final week of this book,

we've got this episode and we've got Thursday's episode and that's it. So we're making our way to the end here

and lots happened last time. We've got lots to talk about. But speaking of the end and this ending

and moving on to the next thing, did you catch the trailer for summer session? That should have

dropped into your podcast feed over the weekend if you are

subscribed and if you're not subscribed, why not? You should be subscribed. Hit that subscribe button so you

don't miss anything else. But the trailer did drop so I can now reveal that we are going to be

spending this summer talking about fairy tales together. And, you know, I always say summer session is like a college

class only fun. And I'm kind of kidding around. I'm not really qualified to teach a college

class. But the idea is it's just a time when we're going to really delve into a topic.

And hopefully it's a topic that will help us to kind of understand better the books

that we read here on Storytime. And, you know, I think a lot of us think of fairy tales as like

bedtime stories that you tell to your kids and you've probably written them off at this point

as not something that you are going to read on your own as a fully fledged adult person. But I am here

to tell you that, in fact, fairy tales are one of the most important building blocks of stories,

the stories that we are still telling and that we are reading together on this show and that

people are telling now when they write modern books, fairy tales play a huge role

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