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. Hello, welcome back. This is it. We are starting the book today. I am so excited. You know,

once somebody wrote in and said, you say you're so excited, so many times, please stop. And you know what I say to that?

I say bah humbug, because the moment that I don't feel this excited to start a new book with you

or even to just read the next chapters or to get your emails, the moment I don't feel this excited

is the moment that I should stop doing this podcast.

I love this podcast. I'm so happy to be back with you. I'm so happy to be here. And I cannot

wait to start the Woman in White today. It is happening. We're doing it. Welcome.

Okay. So for those of you who are new, and I know we've got a lot of new people,

a lot of new people joined during a Christmas Carol, which is fantastic, and I know some people are just jumping in

right now. So for those of you who are new, an extra special welcome, and basically, I just want to

tell you very quickly how this works. So we spend a few minutes here at the beginning talking together.

Usually what I'm doing here at the beginning is taking one or two questions or comments that come from you

that are responding to the chapter or chapters that we've already read and we do a little bit of a deep

dive or we talk about something that was maybe confusing,

and that helps us to kind of deepen our understanding of the book as we go along.

So we spend about 15 or 20 minutes here together at the beginning of each episode,

talking about the book, and then the second part of the show is the book itself with a few

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