{"id":6259,"date":"2018-01-06T07:04:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=6259"},"modified":"2024-11-27T18:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T02:22:48","slug":"lesmisreadalong-on-twitter-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/lesmisreadalong-on-twitter-week-1","title":{"rendered":"#LesMisReadalong on Twitter: Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/m_myriel_twitter.jpg\" alt=\"The Bishop of Digne\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/m_myriel_twitter.jpg 800w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/m_myriel_twitter-300x131.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/m_myriel_twitter-768x336.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/m_myriel_twitter-500x219.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve almost finished the first week of the\u00a0<em>Les Mis\u00e9rables <\/em>Chapter-a-Day Read-along, and the Twitter conversation about the opening few chapters has been amazing. Readers are using the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23lesmisreadalong&amp;src=typd\">#LesMisReadalong<\/a> to chronicle their reading experience, share their knowledge, and support each other in their literary journey. But if you don&#8217;t have a Twitter account, not to worry. This post is a sampling of some of the tweets from this past week that caught my attention. And I&#8217;ll have a new read-along post on Monday that will feature that humble, generous clergyman, the Bishop of Digne.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve not signed up for the\u00a0<em>Les Mis\u00e9rables\u00a0<\/em>Chapter-a-Day Read-along, it&#8217;s definitely not too late. We&#8217;re only getting started! You don&#8217;t have to have a Twitter account or a blog, you only need an unabridged copy of\u00a0<em>Les Mis\u00e9rables.\u00a0<\/em>To join, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/announcing-the-les-miserables-chapter-a-day-read-along\">the sign-up page<\/a> and leave a comment (or a link if you have your own blog), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Les-Miserables-Chapter-a-Day-Reading-Schedule-2018.pdf\">download the reading schedule<\/a>, and catch up to us when you can.<\/p>\n<p>And now, a highlight of this week&#8217;s Les Mis tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just decided to do this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LesMisReadAlong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LesMisReadAlong<\/a>. Gearing up for revolution &amp; songs of angry men &amp; epic battles between moral absolutism &amp; moral relativism &amp; class warfare &amp; prostitution\/death\/despair\/hope&#8230;much more fun to get it from a book than the news! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MYNIS6q7C0\">https:\/\/t.co\/MYNIS6q7C0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Katrina Swenson (@KS_scribbles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KS_scribbles\/status\/947945726172123136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well I&#39;ve done it! I&#39;ve &quot;read&quot; Chapter One of Les Mis en fran\u00e7ais. It was exhausting, my brain hurts. And when I say &quot;read&quot; I mean stumbled through reading aloud with my English translation on my knee. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LesMisReadalong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LesMisReadalong<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4652Y5ekui\">pic.twitter.com\/4652Y5ekui<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AStrongBeliefWicker She\/her 5 x VAXX ??\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@AStrongBelief) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AStrongBelief\/status\/948165947960864773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/burns_nancy\/status\/948123145092976641<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/bronasbooks\/status\/948689026701189120<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vol 1, Book 1, Chapter 4: Deeds to Match Words &#8211; I love this humility from the Bishop, whom Magloire liked to call &quot;Your Highness&quot;: &quot;\u2018Madame Magloire,\u2019 he said, \u2018bring me a chair. My Highness falls short of that shelf.\u2019&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LesMisReadalong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LesMisReadalong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Senger (@nsenger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nsenger\/status\/948919646630981632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/bronasbooks\/status\/949178383782457344<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/bronasbooks\/status\/949183435922333697<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Which English translation is best? I chose the old Wilbour version, which was roughly contemporaneous with the French publication. Here&#39;s a helpful comparison with other major versions, courtesy of @bronasbooks. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LesMisReadalong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LesMisReadalong<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A08h787qXz\">pic.twitter.com\/A08h787qXz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rick Barry ? (@RickBarry44) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickBarry44\/status\/949271989549756416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The beautiful is as useful as the useful&#8230; perhaps more so.&quot;  The Bishop of Digne in Victor Hugo&#39;s &quot;Les Miserables <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/amreading?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#amreading<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lesmisreadalong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lesmisreadalong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Russell B Smith (@possiblehorizon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/possiblehorizon\/status\/949418874994417670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m having a major difficulty with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LesMisReadalong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LesMisReadalong<\/a>! I&#39;m really loving it, perhaps a little too much, and so I&#39;m finding it nearly impossible to hold myself to just one chapter a day.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AStrongBeliefWicker She\/her 5 x VAXX ??\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@AStrongBelief) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AStrongBelief\/status\/949600524411617280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve almost finished the first week of the\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables Chapter-a-Day Read-along, and the Twitter conversation about the opening few chapters has been amazing. Readers are using the hashtag #LesMisReadalong to chronicle their reading experience, share their knowledge, and support each other in their literary journey. But if you don&#8217;t have a Twitter account, not to worry. 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