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 there, welcome back. I'm so glad you're here. I'm having so much fun reading this book with you. I don't know. I hope you're having as much fun as I am. This book is so crazy and it's so filled with twists and turns and you never know what the heck is going on.

And I love that.

I love getting your emails with all of your different theories and your questions.

And so many of you are writing in to say like, ah, I can't stand it.

I can't take the suspense anymore.

But that's great.

That's exactly how we're supposed to be feeling.

It's so fun, right? It's fun. I know. Some of you are like, I really just want to read ahead

because I'm so anxious about it. I get that. I really hope you don't read ahead. And I hope that maybe

there's a kind of reframing you can do in your mind if you're feeling that way, that that sense of, oh, no, I can't wait, what's going to

happen is a good thing. It's good to be that invested in a book. It's great to be that invested

in an old book, right? A classic, a book that so many people think is this sort of dusty old book

that is too old to care about and all these words

are too complicated. You are so invested in an old dusty book that you cannot wait to find out

what is going to happen next. That is a beautiful, wonderful thing. I'm thrilled that it is happening to you. So don't read

ahead. Enjoy that feeling. Enjoy the fact that you are someone who understands the classics so well

that you are freaking out because you've got to know what happens next. That's a great thing. Good for you.

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