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 for grown-ups tea time over in the drawing room, our online community.

That's one thing. We're reading this amazing, exciting, suspenseful, crazy book together.

That's another thing. And also, I just added a new item to the merch store. I'm really excited

about it. It's a pride and prejudice design.

So all you pride and prejudice fans, there is now Pride and Prejudice merch in the Storytime

for Grownup's merch store. So I hope you'll check that out. There's a link in the show notes.

Just scroll down to the description of this episode and you can click on the link to the merch store. You can find all of our merch. We've got the Storytime for Grownups logo. We've got Jane Eyre. And now we've got Pride and Prejudice.

It's very exciting. Woman in White is coming soon. And a few other things are also in the future.

So keep an eye on that link. But I hope you'll click it now and just take a look at the Pride and Prejudice design. Even if you don't buy it, I hope you'll just look at it because I love it. It's beautiful. I'm very excited about it, and I hope

that you are too. But back to the tea time for just one second, and then we'll get to that third thing,

which is that we are reading this amazing, super fun, exciting book together and let's get to it. But today, if you're listening in real time, so it's Thursday,

January 30th, if you're listening in real time, which means that today is our first ever

story time for grown-ups tea time. The tea times happen over on our online community, which you can

access by becoming a story time for grown-ups member. And there is a link to

that in the show notes as well. You can just click down. Clicking on it doesn't mean that you have to

do anything. It just gives you more information. So you can just click on that and see what it's all

about. The T-times are voice chats. So it's kind of like a group phone call between me and you guys. Other story time fans, you'll get to talk to each other

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