{"id":7516,"date":"2019-12-31T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2024-11-27T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T02:21:13","slug":"2019-chapter-a-day-read-along-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/2019-chapter-a-day-read-along-wrap-up","title":{"rendered":"2019 Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Chapter-a-Day Read-along, whether you read all four books or limited yourself to one, two or three of them. In this post I’ll share a few of my reflections on the year, and I would love to know your thoughts about the experience. I invite you to leave a comment on this post to share what reading a chapter a day was like for you.<\/p>\n

First of all, while I still love Don Quixote<\/em>, I am not sure that reading a chapter a day is the best way to experience it. The exploits of the Don and his squire Sancho Panza may be better read at a quicker pace in order for the humor and the episodic nature of the story to work more effectively.<\/p>\n

On the other hand,\u00a0The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em> was a great pleasure to read in a chapter a day. The deliberate pace allowed me to really appreciate the complexity of the plot and the relationships between the characters. For me, reading The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em> was the most enjoyable chapter-a-day experience of the year.<\/p>\n

Reading\u00a0Lilith<\/em> was a challenge. It was much more “out there” than I expected it to be, even for someone like me who has read a lot of fantasy. If I had the year to do over, I would change this book to something else.<\/p>\n

Finally, the year ended with\u00a0The Old Curiosity Shop<\/em> by Charles Dickens. This was a very different book than I was expecting. For a book with “curiosity shop” in the title, there wasn’t very much of the curiosity shop in the plot. I also felt the book had too many coincidences and the ending was extremely unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n

As you hopefully know already, next year’s chapter-a-day read-along starts tomorrow and is one long book, War and Peace\u00a0<\/em>by Leo Tolstoy. See the announcement post to sign up<\/a>, and get ready for another chapter-a-day literary journey.<\/p>\n

Thanks again for participating, and please leave your comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Chapter-a-Day Read-along, whether you read all four books or limited yourself to one, two or three of them. In this post I’ll share a few of my reflections on the year, and I would love to know your thoughts about the experience. I invite you to leave a comment on this post to share what reading a chapter a day was like for you. First of all, while I still love Don Quixote, I am not sure that reading...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"2019 Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap Up #curiosityshopreadalong #donquixotereadalong #montecristoreadalong #lilithreadalong","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,1219],"tags":[1095,161,1092,1090,1091],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-chapter-a-day-read-along","tag-2019-chapter-a-day-readalong","tag-don-quixote","tag-lilith","tag-the-count-of-monte-cristo","tag-the-old-curiosity-shop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2019_readalong_complete_banner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1Xe","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}