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Well, I just completed Fantine. I have no words and found myself filled with the conflicting emotions which were expressed throughout this section. So, I‘m continuing to read, I loved its message and conveyance of thoughts, feelings and difficult life events that are commonly experienced but we seldom discuss. #ReadLesMis

She has felt everything, accepted everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything, cried over everything. (This 🥺)#ReadLesMis

It‘s getting depressing over here with Fantine. I am trying to keep going but I skimmed ahead a bit and saw where this was heading. When I start doing that, it‘s not a good sign. #ReadLesMis

I‘m a little behind, with work, grandkids, and driving to KC to nurse my sister before and after cataract surgery ( yesterday). This 5 page chapter with NINE pages of notes took me 2 days!
As Hugo writes, “Yet these details wrongly called trivial do serve a purpose. The features of the years are what the face of the century is composed of. “
Next: Two Foursomes
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Yesterday‘s chapter.

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I finally started on my reread of this novel. I first read it in high school - we got extra credit if we read the unabridged version and I flew through the entire thing on Spring Break. Several years ago, I bought this translation for the cover and then bought a second copy so I wouldn‘t have to flip back and forth to the end notes. 😂 #READLESMIS

A new day was dawning and it‘s soft light was settling over his life and over his soul. He felt like he was seeing Satan in the light of paradise. #ReadLesMis

Part One: Fantime, Book 2: The Fall, Chapter VIII: The Deep & the Dark

is this chapter a metaphor of
drowning in the sea 🟰 Jean Valjean‘s despair?

#READLESMIS #Sharreadathon #LitsyLove

I guess many of you know there actually is a Digne that Napoleon marched through. #ReadLesMis

“True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as what they do” 🤔 #ReadLesMis

I am surprised at how much was left out of this version and it was not acknowledged as being abridged. Or maybe the new translation is more explanatory. It surely is significantly more understandable and enjoyable. #readLesMis

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Hoping this one counts 'cuz I know a major uprising is coming! @TheBookHippie
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Excited about trying out this translation that I got today. #readlesmis

Made it to the second part of Les Miserables. #ReadLesMis

Pleased we‘ve got to the next part after examining the character of Monseigneur Bienvenu in great detail.

How is everyone else doing?

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This is Chapter IV of Book 5 in my edition. What is yours entitled? #readLesMis

Don‘t count your chickens before they are hatched

Chapter 12 Monsignor Bienvenu‘s Isolation
Pages 49–50
Perrette, the milk maid, and her pot of milk

https://aestheticrealism.net/poems/the-milkmaid-and-the-pot-of-milk-by-jean-de-l...

#READLESMIS

Chapter 8 pg 30.
If I keep going down rabbit holes Googling about Voltaire & Needham and Diderot, I may never catch up! 😀😆😂🤣🤪

And, I‘m too busy reading to take down my Christmas 🎄 decorations!

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The end of Chapter 6 has lovely quotes of Bishop Bienvenue. We could have a charming book of just Bishop Bienvenue- isms!

Clarification:

Part One: Fantine
Book 1: A Good Man
Chapter 6: Under Whose Protection He Placed His House

Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition translated by Christine Donougher

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Here we go! Joining the #readlesmis read-along and finally knocking this one off my TBR.

My book finally came in the mail! Starting this #chunkster for #READLESMIS I‘ve always wanted to read this, and there‘s no better way than with a #buddyread with fellow Littens! Hopefully I will catch up soon!
I‘m loving Monsignor Bienvenue. He is giving, kind, and insightful.

#chunksterchallenge2025 #ColossialChunkster
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#ReadLesMis
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#ReadLesMis

So excited to finally be reading this #Chunkster from my shelves. Thanks so much💖🫂 @Andrew65 for mentioning this group read to me!

@thebookhippie @Cuilin My three versions of Les Mesireables. #ReadLesMis

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Succumbed and on New Year‘s Day decided to join the Buddy Read of Les Miserables. #ReadLesMes. Let‘s hope I don‘t regret joking this year long Buddy Read. 😳

Read the first bit in the early hours so think I‘ve met the first 3 or 4 characters. We possible need a link to the characters as they are introduced, so we can keep them right.

What I find strange is how it says he was Bishop of D______. I wonder why he did it like this.

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And, the year‘s #ReadLesMis begins!

I love my edition, with the red ribbon bookmark (hopefully I can keep it away from my cats). ❤️

#Two4Tuesday
Thanks for the tag, @TheSpineView. 😘

1. My reading goals this year are NOT to have any reading goals. I've been way too angsty these past few years with trying to track, not keeping up, bailing ... whatever. This year, I want to let reading take me on its own journey.
2. I'm looking forward to being able to FINALLY make it through LES MISERABLES after failing at it three times. The Broadway musical doesn't count. 😂

repost for @TheBookHippie:

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@Cuilin reminded me I wanted to reread this for 2025 and I do! It‘s a chapter a day FOR the year! Let me know if you want to join! I‘ll tag ya! I‘ll post the schedule monthly and post a discussion thread monthly.

I can email you my print out from my group in 2020 of the whole year if you want it. social@bookhippie.com

Chunkster reading is my favorite 😂♥️🤷🏻‍♀️🫠

1. Off the top of my head, I'd say my great-grandmother's cast-iron pot. It was a wedding present, and therefore is at least 120 years old. I still use it.
2. Les misérables. There are lengths and digressions, but the core stories still resonate with people today, and I have no doubt that that will also be the case in the next century.

Thank you for the #Two4Tuesday questions, @TheSpineView
Tagging anyone who wants to play...

It‘s the season for summer beach reads, and my TBR pile is sky high, so what did I do… why I bought the thickest chunkster on my bucket list and ignored everything else! (As one does…) I‘m just 30 pages in (out of 1350) … maybe I‘ll be done by summer‘s end?!

I actually finished it! It took a year & a half of reading on & off & several false starts before that, but while I couldn‘t get it to sustain my attention consistently, I really loved this when I was actually reading it! The French history plot line went over my head & I can‘t seem to follow battle scenes, but I loved how suffused this was with progressive philosophy, raw emotion, & beautiful writing. I‘d totally make this a🏝️📖pick. #doublespin

@Rissreads What a generous and thoughtful #missmydad giveaway. This made me immediately think of reading Les Mis in high school with my best friend who passed away recently. After we read it we had to go see the Broadway show about a dozen times. I can‘t see this book without thinking about him. ❤️

#weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday @CBee

adjective FORMAL
adjective: matutinal
of or occurring in the morning

This one is super fun to say! And once I looked it up and found it‘s meaning, and that it was from the Latin, I realized it must be related to matins which I just learned about from Call The Midwife (so I totally defy whoever said TV wasn‘t educational 😆)

One day back into reading Hugo and as usual I need help from my Litsy fam of French speakers or classicists… Google translate says pantoufloche means slipper and white I love the sound of “by the pantoufloche of the pantoufloche” as a swear, the connotation of by the slipper of the slipper is totally lost on me 🤷🏻‍♀️

I bailed on a CAD read of this last spring. I was around 40% which was significantly further than I‘d gotten in any of my previous attempts. You‘d think after 3? tries I‘d just give up, but I‘ve really enjoyed this every time, and right now I‘m actually able to pick up from where I left off instead of starting over, so maybe this is the year I finally finish it?

I‘ve reached the last hundred pages of #LesMisCAD! I‘m excited to check it off my list at the end of the month.

Anyone doing a yearlong read next year? I was considering a series like Throne of Glass or something on those lines.