So the dog is gonna die, right? I feel like the dog is about to die. I'm a little afraid to keep reading.
8leagueboot As soon as it brought up Naomi Price's dog I was like, "Nooooo a dooooog" 7y
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So the dog is gonna die, right? I feel like the dog is about to die. I'm a little afraid to keep reading.
pickMaybe not quite as funny as it thinks it is, but a lot of fun nonetheless.
pickFantine, Gavroche: Wonderful, unexpected complexity
Valjean, Javert: As remembered from the musical
Cosette: Possibly the most over-idealized "innocent virgin bride" in all of literature? Eww.
Marius: Tragically boring and predictable
About 120 pp behind where I should be to finish on time, but I have two days off and will prevail! Gleefully skimming the religious and political philosophy, while happily devouring adventure. p. 960 #NaNoReadMo #LesMiserables
I broke the spine. Shoot me. #NaNoReadMo #LesMiserables p. 346
Nothing like a classic novel to remind you how shaky your grasp of world history actually is. #NaNoReadMo #LesMiserables
Fantine is such a great character! The musical composers should be throttled for turning her into such a simp. p. 201. #NaNoReadMo #LesMiserables
Trying to get a jump on reading Les Miserables during November. (Is #NaNoREADMo a thing? Shouldn't it be?) Usually when I've read 100 pp, it's at least a quarter of the book, if not 1/3. Digging it so far. Feels doable.
so-soI like to be fooled. All the "deep, dark secrets" in this one were painfully obvious.
This book feels so familiar: A group of unfriendly friends stuck in an isolated cabin, an accidental death that might not be an accident, an emotionally damaged heroine who holds the key to the mystery. This evening it hit me. Ruth Ware almost certainly read a few mid-80s Christopher Pike novels as a teenager.
A new favorite writer?
pickI was nervous about reading F451, having recently tried to reread 1984 and not being able to get through it. I was afraid this would be more of the same, so I was happy to find that Bradbury seems to genuinely love language. Whereas Orwell uses words in service of an ideology, Bradbury chooses his words at least as much for their beauty as their utility.
"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." #BigReadWichita2016
