David Copperfield: Chapter 48
6/22/202649 min
Welcome to Season 5 of Storytime for Grownups! This season we are reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens a few chapters at a time, with a few notes along the way. It's like an audio book with built in notes. So brew a pot of tea, find a cozy chair, and settle in. It's storytime!
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Next time we'll be reading: Chapter 49
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First 90 secondsFaith Moore· Host0:00
Hello, and welcome to Story Time for Grownups. I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. 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. [upbeat piano music] Hi, welcome back. So I promised that I would tell you when this happened, and it has happened. We are three-quarters of the way through this book. Chapter 48, if I'm doing my math correctly, which is always a question, 'cause math is not my strong suit, but if I'm doing this correctly, I believe that chapter 48 is three-quarters of the way through the book, because there are 64 chapters. So you can check my math, but I think that 48 is three-quarters of 64. So we are actually kind of in the home stretch. I mean, since the book is so long, there are still many, many chapters left to go, and we still have a lot to get through. But I do think that at this point, the narrative is kind of trending back downward. All the loose ends