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. back to story time for grownups. This is episode five. We're reading chapter five of Jane Eyre today.

If you're just finding us for the first time, welcome. I am so glad you're here. If you are not familiar with Jane Eyre and you'd like to start from the beginning, pause this episode and just go find

episode one. We're reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, chapter by chapter, with a few notes

along the way. If you are already familiar and you want to just jump right in with us, then stick

around. Let's, we're going to get started with chapter five in just a couple of minutes.

Before we do that, I just want to say a very big thank you to everyone who has been writing

to me to tell me how much you're enjoying the show, to people who have been writing reviews

on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you are listening and hitting those five stars

that it's so helpful for the show and it just it does my heart good to see all of those comments

and those stars coming in so thank you thank you for doing that and thank you for being here

if you haven't already rated the show and you're enjoying it and you if you would be so kind, I would

love if you would go wherever you're listening and just tap the five stars. It really helps

people to find out about the show who haven't found us yet. Also, I just wanted to say, and

this, I don't know that this does help people find the show, but I love it and you should

keep doing it. I love all of the messages that I'm getting from you guys about what you're doing while you're listening.

I got one. Someone was making bread while they were listening, which was awesome.

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