Hello and welcome to Storytime for grownups.

I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

Each episode, I'll read one chapter 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 sort of suddenly mysterious and spooky and exciting and frightening, and I love that about it. I wish we could have all been sitting together, reading it together, and then looked up at once and had a whole

conversation about it. I wish we could all be together. Often I wish that. But this is the next best

thing and it is a wonderful thing. And thank you for letting it be, be what it is. I am so grateful for

the comments that have been coming in, the questions, the ratings, the reviews, all of those

things are helping to grow the show, and the show really is growing. Ratings and reviews are

literally pouring in. It's amazing. I've been watching and I've been getting all

kinds of really interesting and insightful comments and questions from everyone. So thank you and

thank you for being here. Welcome to listeners who have caught up to us, who've been binging from

chapter one and have caught up to us here at Chapter 16. Welcome. We're so glad to have you

along for the ride. Welcome, of course, as always, to those of you who have been with us on

this journey from the very beginning. And welcome to completely new listeners who are finding

us for the very first time. If this is your first time with Jane Aaron, you've never read the book

before, you don't know anything about it, I do recommend pausing this episode and going back to

chapter one, because we're reading Jane Eyre, chapter by chapter, with a few notes along the way,

so you'll be confused if you start here, because we're about to launch into chapter 16. If you

have read Jane Eyre and you just want to join a

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