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. Well, we made it. Here we are on the other side. We've read the whole book. We finished

the woman in white. Congratulations. That's quite an achievement. It was a long time. We've been reading this book for a long time

all the way since January, and here we are. So this is our conclusion episode. So I'm not going to read

any chapters today. There are no more chapters to read, but I am going to kind of wrap things up.

We haven't talked yet about the end of the book. I'm not going to just leave you hanging. We are going to kind of wrap things up. We haven't talked yet about the end of the book. I'm not going to

just leave you hanging. We are going to talk about the end. And I have a few questions that I'm

going to read and we'll do a recap. And I will give you my final thoughts. I'll talk about the end.

And I'll kind of try to wrap everything up nicely so that we feel like we're ready to move on. And moving on is what we are going to do after this episode. So we are

going to weekly episodes. We're entering summer session after today. So there won't be a Thursday

episode this week and episodes will now be every Monday, because summer session is

starting. So next week, next Monday, June 2nd, will be the first episode of summer session.

And if you missed it, we are talking about fairy tales this summer. I'm really excited. I've gotten

lots of wonderful emails from you guys saying that you're excited to, so I'm really happy to hear that.

And we are going to really be diving in, and it's kind of like, I always say it's like a college class only fun.

And what I mean by that is it's a kind of deep dive into a topic.

We'll have guests, there'll be interviews, Sometimes it'll just be me talking. I'll be

reading several fairy tales to you throughout the course of the summer. And we'll be talking about

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