Les Misérables Chapter-a-Day Read-along
Twitter: @burns_nancy
01-07 January: weekly summation of my thoughts.
- Nick Senger @ onecatholiclife.com is hosting a year long
- …read-along of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
- I have been reading French for the past 5 years
- I started with the 20 book by Emile Zola
- …the Les Rougon-Marquart series.
- That took me two years to finish.
- Often I try to find a really good book French Book
- … but even Goncourt Prize winners are lacking.
- Now I have decided to return to the classic Victor Hugo.
- I have never read anything about this novel, not seen movie or musical.
- This is a read-along with a writer I expect will not disappoint!
- I will follow the informative posts that Nick will publish
- …downloaded the reading schedule and
- …hope to finish this book by the end of the year!
- I will be reading it in French….nothing lost in translation, 🙂
- #LesMisReadalong
NancyElin 
How fantastic Nancy! And I love that you’re reading it in French!! I’m going to try but it’s a (BIG) stretch for me, and I will predominantly be reading the most recent English translation.
I sampled the first 2 chapters on Kindle to see if the book was ‘doe-able’ in French.
I think I can manage it! Also…thanks for your tweets promoting Nick’s challenge…it finally pushed me to join in!
I am looking into doing this challenge. It does sound like a good way to read a book that seems formidable. If I start today, I will have to get a kindle version, then later I could look for a print version.
Tracy, those were my thoughts exactly…a massive classic but I never get around to reading it!
I finished ch1 today. It was short and feels good to have started this iconic French book!
Delighted to see you;re joining us Nancy. I was hoping you might consider this a good French language challenge 🙂
I’m currently reading the Denny translation – 2 chapters in and so far so good, but I did enjoy Louise’s post about her two translations and the more modern one does sound (& read) in a more appealing way….
You are so right…this is a great chance to read French daily! I discovered I can read 25 FR books and end up shilly-shalling my time with a below average (even though it won a prize!) book. I’d rather read 1 GREAT classic! I think it would be a good idea to read only classic French books in 2018. Then I’m sure to enjoy myself! Ch 1 was fun…and I did enjoy Louise’s post about the different translations. I start ch 2 with my morning cofffee…than the brain is sharp and ready to go! PS: kitchen, floors, bathrooms are clean already…so I can just sit in my reading chair all morning!
OOOOOOO!!!! I soooo wish I could participate. But I just don’t have the time! I could cry! In any case, enjoy it! It is wonderful and one of my favourites! You are soooo lucky to be able to read it in French!
As Terry Parchett said: “So much universe, so little time.” I hope you can follow tweets, posts ( Brona’s Books and A Strong belief in Wicker (twitter: @AStrongBelief) and Nick’s excellent informatie (twitter: @nsenger). I’ve just met the first characters: L’évéquê de Digne, his sister and maid, Mme Baptistine and Mm Magloire. What’s going to happen in ch 2? #NeedCoffee and good French dictionary!