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 story time. All right, welcome back to Storytime for grownups.

Happy Monday. I hope everybody had a great weekend. And I'm so glad to be here with you, as always.

Welcome to listeners, new and old, people who have been here since the beginning,

and people who just found us today, and welcome to real time for people who have binged and are now with us in real time at Chapter 17. If you are just finding us today and you have no idea what Jane Eyre is,

you've never read the book and you don't know the story, I do suggest pausing here and going back

to episode one because we're reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte with a few notes along the way.

So you'll be very confused jumping in here at Chapter 17. But if you are new and you do know

Jane Eyre, you've read it before,

you've seen several movies or something like that, and you just want to jump in here

and read along with a group of people that are coming to love this book and enjoying it

together, then please, too, join us. Thank you, as always, for your ratings, your reviews.

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