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, welcome back. Okay, so many, many of you have been telling me that you can't help it.

You've gone out and you've bought the book and you just have to read ahead because you cannot wait

for the next episode to find out what happens, which makes me so happy because that's exactly

how you're supposed to feel when you're reading this book. But I have to tell you that I

cannot wait to hear from you. It's like torture, putting out each episode waiting for the Monday

or the Thursday when I get to put out the next episode and then waiting for your emails to come in

to know what you think of the episodes. And I don't get to read ahead. There's no reading ahead on

your emails. So I would just like to tell you, I feel your pain. I understand I'm also kind of

sitting here on tenter hooks because I cannot wait to hear what you think after each of these

episodes. So thank you for writing in. Thank you for those emails. I love to get them. But also,

I would just like to make a very quick pitch for not reading ahead.

So many things in this world are instant now.

You can binge an entire season of television.

You can find information at your fingertips.

You know, you want to know.

What was the name of that actor in that show?

Boom.

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