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I resonated with this…Time seems to have started to move faster. I need some way to slow it down. #ReadLesMis

#5JoysFriday

1) Baked a Maple Pecan cake yesterday…sometimes you just NEED cake
2) Pippin‘s favorite toy is monkey man which is almost as big as he is
3) I am loving Les Mis chapter a day
4) After surviving reading Lark Rise to Candleford, rewatching the series on BritBox makes it all worthwhile
5) We haven‘t had much snow but I‘ve loved watching it fall.

Share your joys! It helps combat the barrage of daily 💩 we get.

@DebinHawaii

Oh, my heart goes out to Fantine!
Running behind- nursing my sister in KC after cataract surgery, now in Dodge City helping my daughter with her 5th child 🩷 Little Hazel Anne. Will keep reading as I can! I‘ll eventually catch up!

It‘s interesting that the French novels, Les Miserables and The Count of Monte Cristo have several elements in common. #ReadLesMis

Favorite quote so far #readlesmis @TheBookHippie

They‘re turning off the lights.

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@Andrew65 @JenlovesJT47
@MatchlessMarie
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@DrSabrinaMoldenReads
@PageShifter

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
#READLESMIS

#ReadLesMis

Yesterday‘s chapter.

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@Andrew65 @JenlovesJT47
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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

#SundayFunday
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Hoping this one counts 'cuz I know a major uprising is coming! @TheBookHippie
#readlesmis

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?

@Cuilin @lillinblue @dabbe @librarybelle @quietjenn
@TheBookHippie @JenlovesJT47
@MatchlessMarie
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@julieclair @Deblovestoread
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@DrSabrinaMoldenReads

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!

#READLESMIS
@TheBookHippie

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

#READLESMIS
@TheBookHippie

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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#AllergicToChunksters
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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.

@thebookhippie

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:

#READLESMIS

@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...