The tweets keep coming in the Les Misérables Chapter-a-Day Read-along. We’ve finally reached the end of Book 1: A Good Man, and I’ll have a new read-along post up tomorrow to wrap it up and look forward to Book 2. In the meantime, enjoy this post which gathers some of the tweets from the second week. A big Thank You! to everyone who’s sharing their favorite quotes, thoughts on translation, struggles, victories, and all the other other ways Les Misérables is affecting you. You’re making this read-along an interactive adventure, and it’s only just beginning!

If you’re interested in participating on Twitter, we’re using the hashtag #LesMisReadalong. Just add that to any of your tweets about Les Misérables and we’ll be sure to see them. And if you want to follow the Twitter conversation but don’t necessarily want to add your two cents, you can click on #LesMisReadalong each day to see what people are tweeting about the book.

Once again, it is never too late join us in reading Les Misérables this year. A chapter a day is hardly any time commitment at all, and the slow pace is allowing us to really chew on Hugo’s words and appreciate them. We’re only fourteen days into the challenge, which is to say to catch up you only need to read about 60 pages. To join, simply leave a comment or link on the announcement post and subscribe to this blog to get updates throughout the year.

Without further ado, here’s a sampling of tweets from week two:

https://twitter.com/burns_nancy/status/950454470802132994

https://twitter.com/KS_scribbles/status/950482651860774912

https://twitter.com/nerissarain/status/950563651575955456

https://twitter.com/burns_nancy/status/950651542876643328

https://twitter.com/bronasbooks/status/950873798936477696

https://twitter.com/bronasbooks/status/951210294835142656

https://twitter.com/nerissarain/status/951310737791598592

"Now, can one come in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a little of that misery, like the dust of labor?" #lesmisreadalong

— Tom Arceneaux (@TomArceneaux) January 11, 2018

Victor Hugo does some self reflection in describing the Bishop of Digne in Vol 1, Bk 1, Ch. 11 of #LesMis – "he was tolerant and easy-going, more so perhaps than the person who writes these words." #lesmisreadalong pic.twitter.com/Z5PX1ehjdI

— Nick Senger (@nsenger) January 11, 2018

https://twitter.com/bronasbooks/status/951580225237757952

https://twitter.com/burns_nancy/status/951762422997635073

We live in a sad society. Succeed; that is the advice which falls drop by drop, from the overhanging corruption.
We may say, by the way, that success is a hideous thing. Its counterfeit of merit deceives men. V1, B1, C12 #LesMisReadalong

— Rick Barry 📚 (@RickBarry44) January 12, 2018

Oh that my days would be like those of the bishop of Digne "…full to the brim with good thoughts, good words, and good actions."(Les Miserables Part 1, Book1, ch 13) #lesmisreadalong

— Russell B Smith (@possiblehorizon) January 13, 2018

https://twitter.com/burns_nancy/status/952084947094921216

…and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon; a few flowers of the earth, and all the stars in the sky. V1, B1, C13 #LesMisReadalong pic.twitter.com/I5hg4NKbLh

— Rick Barry 📚 (@RickBarry44) January 13, 2018

Something to look forward to watching after our #lesmisreadalong: https://t.co/JLMGZYuxRn

— Denise Gorss (@Denise205) January 14, 2018

"For as drops of water may wear holes in a rock, so it is with character. These grooves are indelible. These formations are indestructible. Les Miserables V1, B1, C13 #lesmisreadalong

— Melisa Milholland (@GrettalAnne) January 14, 2018

https://twitter.com/bronasbooks/status/952518232581156865