Here we at the end of Week 6 of the Les Misérables Chapter-a-Day Read-along, and the story is really beginning to move. We’ve read forty-two chapters so far–about 170 pages–and this past week we were introduced to some of the most important characters in the book.  It’s still not too late to join in the fun, simply download the reading schedule and do what you can to catch up. Speaking of joining in, we welcome Laura Roberts who jumped in this past week, as you can see below in the highlights from last week’s Twitter conversation at #LesMisReadalong:

Welcome, Laura. This is a timely reminder that it is NOT too late to join host @nsenger’s merry band in the #LesMisReadalong! https://t.co/116otARBwQ

— Rick Barry 📚 (@RickBarry44) February 4, 2018

"Sometimes the simplest is the wisest. That's how it is." Les Miserables (Pt1, Bk3, Ch3) – Taking this Sunday to catch up after having fallen behind on the #lesmisreadalong

— Russell B Smith (@possiblehorizon) February 5, 2018

Favourite:
"Soon loved, soon gone. That is the story." [Wilbour]
"No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an adventure, indeed." [Hapgood]
"So soon as he has left me I am beginning to grow fond of him; the old story." [Wraxall]
V1 B3 C9 #LesMisReadalong pic.twitter.com/zn5r52IyRy

— Rick Barry 📚 (@RickBarry44) February 5, 2018

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"…had she stood upright [she] might perhaps have scared the traveller from the outset, undermined her trustfulness and forestalled what we have to relate. Someone sitting instead of standing–destinies hang on this." V1, B4, C1 #LesMisReadalong pic.twitter.com/sJ8xxnOd7u

— Nick Senger (@nsenger) February 6, 2018

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"To trust is sometimes to surrender" This title from Les Miserables (Pt 1, bk 4) is wise and multi layered in meaning – both ominous and hopeful. #lesmisreadalong

— Russell B Smith (@possiblehorizon) February 7, 2018

#LesMisReadalong My thoughts on V1B3 In the Year 1817/En l'année 1817https://t.co/aSy2kuD0RM

— AStrongBeliefWicker She/her 5 x VAXX 📚🤷‍♀️ (@AStrongBelief) February 7, 2018

What were the Thénardiers?
V1 B4 C2 #LesMisReadalong

"WHAT were…?" LOL pic.twitter.com/HHPBwosRgP

— Rick Barry 📚 (@RickBarry44) February 7, 2018

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"It was a heart-breaking thing to see in winter, this poor child, not yet six years old, shivering in her tattered old rags of coarse cloth, sweeping the street before daylight with an enormous broom in her tiny red hands and a teardrop in those big eyes." V1B4C3 #lesmisreadalong pic.twitter.com/K3VuugDZL0

— Nick Senger (@nsenger) February 8, 2018

In the place she was called the Lark. People like figurative names and were pleased thus to name this little being, not larger than a bird, trembling, frightened, and shivering….
Only the poor Lark never sang.
V1 B4 C3 #LesMisReadalong

— Rick Barry 📚 (@RickBarry44) February 8, 2018

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