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October | Gregory Bastianelli

#OctoberReads

Some books I will continue and some I will attempt in October. No promises. 😏

#BookedInTime #NaturalLitsy #ChildrenClassicReads2025 #ChristieCapers #WhatTheDickens #ReadLesMis #MonthlyNonfiction #WomenWhoRunWithTheWolves

Why do I feel I‘ve forgotten something?

kspenmoll I like your “Hope Core”! 1d

Cuilin @kspenmoll thanks 😊 1d

Gissy Great!📚👏👏👏 18h

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tpixie

Les Miserables: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Victor Hugo

How apropo!
Victor Hugo Market in Toulouse
#ReadLesMis 💙🤍❤️🇫🇷

TheBookHippie

Amiable That looks wonderful! 3d

tpixie @Amiable It was! 3d

Aims42 Omg, the cheese 😍🧀🧡💛 3d

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lil1inblue 😍 😍 😍 3d

TheBookHippie OMG glorious!!! 😍😍😍😍 and cheeeeeese yummmmm🧀 3d

tpixie @Aims42 @lil1inblue @TheBookHippie the bread and cheese have been great!! Taking aspirin for my clogged arteries! 😂 Hopefully walking counterbalances it! Interestingly they don‘t serve butter with their bread, you have to ask for it…. 2d

Aims42 @tpixie Calories don‘t count while on vacation so you enjoy that bread & cheese guilt free! But do keep taking your aspirin 😊 I love seeing your pics, keep posting!! 2d

ferskner 😍😍😍😍😍 2d

tpixie @Aims42 @ferskner 💙🤍❤️🇫🇷 2d

dabbe What @Aims42 said! 🧀🧀🧀 2d

Cuilin I love this. Enjoy. We‘re all living vicariously through you!! 🇫🇷 2d

tpixie @Cuilin @dabbe 😘🧀💙🤍❤️ 🧀😘 (edited) 2d

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tpixie

Les Miserables: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Victor Hugo

This may be my most controversial post.
I prayed to the book gods with the upmost of respect while making my Travel Les Mis book.
I don‘t want to get behind further, & just can‘t carry the full book on vacation.
This book was waiting in the wild to be used & loved.
With an X-Acto blade I cut the cover, several of the pages, & the appendix in the back. Now Les MIs can return to France, but in the beautiful countryside
#ReadLesMis

TheBookHippie

Ruthiella At one point in my life I would have been horrified but now-do what you need to do. 😅 Just recycle ♻️ the pages if you can. (edited) 2w

tpixie @Ruthiella Yes! It was a very difficult decision. I felt like the boy who was taking advantage of the tree in The Giving Tree. I did give the book thanks. I‘ll keep the book & pages until I‘m done reading the book, and then I may do some sort of artwork craft in celebration. 💛📒💛 2w

dabbe It will now be the best-loved-well-worn book. Have a lovely vacay, too! 💙🤍♥️ 2w

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tpixie @dabbe yes! Thx & Thx! 💙🤍❤️ (edited) 2w

Gleefulreader I actually love this as a way to still enjoy the book and then to use it creatively when you are done! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2w

Cuilin Fabulous, bon voyage 🇫🇷 2w

tpixie @dabbe yes! I remember it as a young child an older friend told me that Books love to be marked in and Dog eared because that means they‘re well loved. And then I got older and started feeling bad about Dog earring and quit. So I thought of her today. 2w

tpixie @Gleefulreader it is the only way that I could think to do it so I could still underline and not get too far behind. I‘m trying not to read it on an e-book. 2w

tpixie @Cuilin merci! 2w

dabbe @tpixie 🧡💜💛 2w

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Cuilin

Les Miserables [With Ribbon Marker] | Victor Hugo

#ReadlesMis #wildwomen #WomenWhoRunWiththeWolves #WhenBooksCollide

“You can try all you like you won‘t go in, I‘m not the daughter of a dog, I‘m the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what‘s that to me? You‘re men. Well, I‘m a woman. I‘m not afraid of you, not one bit”. Eponine- Les Miserable.

TheBookHippie, Chrissyreadit

TheBookHippie Eponine is my FAVORITE of the whole book. 2w

Cuilin @TheBookHippie I love the name Eponine 🩷 Her and Gavroche are my favorites so far. 2w

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie She was always my favorite in the musical - I adore her in the book. ❤ 2w

dabbe 💙🤍♥️ 2w

Chrissyreadit I love Les Mis and Eponine. 💛 2w

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tpixie

Les Miserables: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Victor Hugo

Plugging along!
July 23 pg 671
The title of the book appears.
“les misérables - the wretched“
That always jumps out at me when I read!
#ReadLesMis

TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie I love it when it happens!!! 3w

tpixie @TheBookHippie 💙🤍❤️ 3w

dabbe 💙🤍♥️ 3w

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lil1inblue

Les Miserables: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Victor Hugo

All the discussion of slang in today's chapter reminded me of this article from 2019. It's not necessarily related to the book, but I found it interesting. My brain goes down weird rabbit holes sometimes. 🙃

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47790128

#readlesmis @thebookhippie

TheBookHippie I‘m a rabbit hole queen! We were just talking about the French language at school with the teachers. 3w

Cuilin Interesting. (It reminded me of Cockney rhyming slang.) I love disappearing down a rabbit hole and starting a new fixation. 🤦‍♀️ 3w

lil1inblue @cuilin @thebookhippie I'm fascinated by the evolution and blending of languages, so anything that even borders on that will send me down the rabbit hole. 🙃 Slang origins can be particularly intriguing. 🤓 3w

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TheBookHippie @lil1inblue 💙💙💙💙 3w

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue Yiddish is like that a bit. 3w

tpixie @lil1inblue Interesting! I think you have found your rabbit hole family! 🐰 🕳️ 3w

lil1inblue @tpixie And that's why I adore litsy. 😍 3w

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tpixie

Les Miserables: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Victor Hugo

Interesting- in the same day I came upon the same French phrase!
“Entre chien et loup “ - literally between dog and wolf- it means evening.
I‘m reading the Languedoc Trilogy in advance to my trip to SE France ?? (Toulouse, Figeac, & Béduer) since the books are based in that area & Carcassonne.
This phrase is in Book 2- Sepulchre
I‘m lucky to travel, but these travels will make me even further behind on #ReadLesMis

TheBookHippie

tpixie I insist on reading the book itself & cannot imagine lugging this heavy book on the plane. Dare I buy a second book, tear out some pages, and take with me? Then copy over my notes? 😂 I guess I could actually do that with my ebook, just not as easily… 3w

Cuilin 2009 I got to see the fireworks on Bastille day over the castle in Carcassone. It is a beautiful fully walled city. I hope you get to see it!! oh, I like the idea of using a secondhand book!! 3w

dabbe I thought the same when going to Canada. I just couldn't lug the 5+ pound tome on the plane ... and then I got behind and just got caught back up. 😂 3w

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TheBookHippie Oh I‘d get a used copy and take it apart then put it back 🤣🤣🤣🙌🏼👀🫣 3w

Lcsmcat There‘s a novel by that name, by Irene Némirovsky , but I don‘t know if it‘s been translated into English. It‘s not in the Litsy data base. 3w

charl08 I've scanned pages from a travel guide before when I was only going to one area (and the book was a brick). Not sure if reading a photocopy would be worse than an e book though? 3w

tpixie @Cuilin oh! What a unique experience! I bet that was magical 💙🤍❤️ 3w

tpixie @dabbe yes! I‘m so behind!! 3w

tpixie @Lcsmcat Oh! I‘ve read her Suite Française. Her personal story is fascinating.

Suite Francaise

tpixie @charl08 ohh that‘s an idea! I could copy it at work for free…. @TheBookHippie I did find one for 9.50 on Amazon. I‘m tempted… 3w

Lcsmcat @tpixie Yes! That was my introduction to her. I then read everything I could find. My old library had a huge foreign language section so even works that hadn‘t yet been translated were available to me. 3w

tpixie @Lcsmcat amazing! You really are fluent!! What a great library! 3w

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Cuilin

Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation | Victor Hugo

#ReadLesMis #FavouriteCharacter

“Monsieur complains?”
“About you!” said the pedestrian.
“The bureau is closed,” said Gavroche. “I‘m receiving no more complaints.”

I think I‘m a chapter behind, but this chapter 1 of book 6 is fabulous !!! ❤️Gavroche

Cuilin @TheBookHippie @lillinblue @dabbe @librarybelle @quietjenn
@Andrew65 @JenlovesJT47
@MatchlessMarie
@Dieareader @tpixie
@Deblovestoread
@Gleefulreader @DRachel
@Pageshifter
@DrSabrinaMoldenReads 4w

TheBookHippie From now til the end of the book- last time I adored. It‘s so much fun to reread and catch more! 4w

dabbe I adore him, too! 💙🤍♥️ 3w

tpixie Yes! I adore him!!! 🩵🩵🩵 3w

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