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dariazeoli
Les Misrables | Victor Hugo
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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.

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dariazeoli
Les Misrables | Victor Hugo
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I just don‘t know if I‘m ready for this…

#LesMisCAD

dabbe I tried three times and finally bailed. After seeing the Broadway musical 9 times, the book moved way too slowly for me, so I #hailedthebail! 😀 5mo
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dariazeoli
Les Misrables | Victor Hugo
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#LesMisCAD

A little fall of rain, can hardly hurt me now…

Today was the day. (I‘ve been reading forever.)

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IndoorDame
Lady Chatterly's Lover | D H Lawrence
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#BookRepert #WeeklyForecast
Started Fingersmith which has me completely hooked!!
Tore through The Chaperone, a super quick YA feminist dystopia that I found satisfying
Finished our July #SundayBuddyRead, I wasn‘t that invested in seeing how it wrapped but I felt compelled to read to the end anyway…
Am trying to catch up on #LesMisCAD but am still WAY behind!
Really looking forward to starting my reread of the tagged book for Aug #SundayBuddyRead

Cinfhen Creepy cover for 😱 9mo
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IndoorDame
Snail's Pace | Susan McDonough
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I stubbornly remain in my funky little ‘I‘m still reading, but at a snail‘s pace‘ slump… This week I read the last chunk of Outrun The Moon & caught up on #LesMisCAD which I‘d fallen pretty far behind on. No Progress on Wollstonecraft or Dickinson so they‘ll roll over to June w the bulk of my May TBR. Next week I‘m hoping to finish The Lighthouse Witches & The Devil in the White City, but prob won‘t start anything new. #BookReport #WeeklyForecast

Cinfhen As long as you‘re still reading - doesn‘t really matter at what pace 💕💕 11mo
dabbe @Cinfhen #ditto! 🩵🤍🩵 11mo
IndoorDame @dabbe so frustrating! But @Cinfhen is right. As long as we‘re reading, it really doesn‘t matter 💙💙💙 11mo
Cinfhen 😘 11mo
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dariazeoli
Les Misrables | Victor Hugo
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A further small digression, you say? Basically foreign to this book, you say?

Victor, I‘m still trying to get the image of women on their knees licking crosses on the floor out of my head. Ready to rejoin our main characters when you are, sir!

#LesMisCAD

Clare-Dragonfly 😂 11mo
Tamra Funny! 11mo
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IndoorDame
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Why do I have the nagging sense that I‘ve seen a version of this somewhere? Is it quoted frequently? Did one of the Brontë sisters write a similar scene? Am I just crazy and experiencing deja vu…? #LesMisCAD @dariazeoli @MatchlessMarie

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dariazeoli
Les Misrables | Victor Hugo
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Yesterday was my first missed chapter for #LesMisCAD - I‘m impressed that I kept it up for nearly 4 months! It seems like this weekend‘s chapters were meant to be read together, anyway, so no harm done.

Learning about the nuns and their daily life was truly something. Hugo painted a picture by describing their yellow teeth and their penance while kneeling on the stone floor for hours. Sounds miserable to me!

IndoorDame 4 months is an amazing streak!👏👏👏 12mo
Cuilin I didn‘t know there was a buddy read for this. I just started this. Lol 12mo
IndoorDame What chapter did you read for today? I also missed a day this week and this morning got confused thinking maybe I missed 2 days and am still a chapter behind… 12mo
dariazeoli @IndoorDame 6.2 - The Rule of Martin Vega 12mo
IndoorDame @dariazeoli perfect! Thanks!!! 12mo
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IndoorDame
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#LesMisCAD @dariazeoli @MatchlessMarie I‘ve never experienced a chase scene in this fragmented slow motion before. It‘s really odd. I was tempted to just read straight through to the end of this section, but I got worried I‘d lose momentum on our CAD pacing that I‘m actually doing really well with! if I started messing with it. And then I started wondering why the chase is broken up into so many characters in the first place…?

dariazeoli I haven‘t missed a day yet (!) and agree with you; it‘s a little odd to read in bits and pieces. I just had a vision of the “Take on Me” video - Javert at one end of the path, his henchman at the other. Where does Morten Harket, I mean, Jean Valjean, go??? 12mo
IndoorDame @dariazeoli omg, I‘d totally forgotten about that video! Such a perfect image for this sequence!!! 12mo
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IndoorDame
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I couldn‘t find a translation for the little parody included in today‘s chapter online. Are either of you reading an edition that gives the English for this? Or are any Littens fluent in French? #LesMisCAD @dariazeoli @MatchlessMarie

RaeLovesToRead Mr Raven on his perch, held an enforceable seizure in his beak, Mr Fox, by the enticing smell, pretty much told him this story, Hey! Hello! (With some help from Google translate...) (yeah, I must be getting this wrong... 🤔 my French isn't great.) 12mo
RaeLovesToRead Actually I think Mr Raven may be perched on a file... 12mo
IndoorDame @RaeLovesToRead it‘s infinitely better than mine 😂 Thank you!! 12mo
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Ruthiella @RaeLovesToRead I think you have it right, and yes, Mr. Crow is perched on a file. I think there must be a satirical element here. Maybe a child‘s rhyme converted to reflect legal proceedings? @Dilara Do you know? 12mo
Dilara @Ruthiella It's a satirical reworking of the Crow & Fox fable by La Fontaine about a cunning fox who steals a cheese from a crow by flattering it and persuading it to sing. The crow opens its beak and drops the cheese it was holding, and the fox runs away with it. We all learned it at school 😁
Its moral is “Learn that each flatterer
Lives at the cost of those who heed.“
http://lafontaine.mmlc.northwestern.edu/fables/corbeau_renard_en.html
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IndoorDame @Dilara @Ruthiella thank you!! I really appreciate the help ❤️ 12mo
Dilara @Ruthiella In this case, the crow is perched on a file (Rae was right) and is holding a “saisie exécutoire“, which seems (legalese isn't my forte) to be an order allowing the selling of seized assets. 12mo
IndoorDame @Dilara ah, that makes sense 😁 12mo
Dilara @IndoorDame Happy to be of help! 😁 I don't understand why a translation wasn't provided in the version you're reading, though 🙃 12mo
ImperfectCJ Jumping in after lurking to say that I love this thread! I've been studying French (via Duolingo, which I don't quite trust to give me usable language), and was pleased by how many words I could put together, but dismayed by how little meaning I could get out of it. @Dilara 's link and insights were very helpful! 12mo
IndoorDame @Dilara no clue! Frustratingly, the occasional French phrase is defined in my edition, but I‘ve found no pattern to the ones they pick 😣🤷🏻‍♀️ 12mo
IndoorDame @ImperfectCJ parody is always a tough place to try out parsing a new language. You can be practically fluent and still miss puns and cultural cues that the whole joke hinges on. But congrats on successfully studying with Duolingo! I‘ve never gotten further than using it as a refresh (edited) 12mo
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