Yesterday, April 1, besides being Easter Sunday, was also the one quarter mark in our Les Misérables Chapter-a-Day Read-along, based on the number of chapters read.
Congratulations for making it this far, and thanks for staying with the read-along to this point. Here’s what it means to have read the first twenty-five percent of Les Misérables together:
- Ninety-one chapters read, including:
- Fourteen chapters on the Bishop of Digne
- Nineteen chapters on the Battle of Waterloo
- Almost one hundred tweets with the #lesmisreadalong hashtag, including:
- Favorite quotes from each chapter
- Pictures and images that illustrate the story
- Discovering a companion podcast
- Discussions about translation, background, and the writing of the novel
- Meeting well over a dozen significant characters, including
- Monsigneur Bienvenu
- Mademoiselle Baptistine
- Madame Magloire
- Jean Valjean
- Petite Gervais
- Fantine
- Félix Tholomyès
- Cosette
- The Thenardiers
- Javert
- Sister Simplice
- Champmathieu
- Getting far enough into the story to cover the first 40 minutes of the musical, including the following songs:
- Look Down (Prologue)
- What Have I Done?
- At the End of the Day
- I Dreamed a Dream
- Who Am I?
- The Confrontation
As the second quarter of the book begins, we leave Fantine and Waterloo behind and look ahead to the fulfillment of a promise. I hope you’re looking forward to the next ninety-one chapters as much as I am, especially considering we will meet my favorite character.
Speaking of characters, which one from the first ninety-one chapters do you most respond to or connect with? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below.
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Very impressive. You’re doing really well!
Oh who is your favourite character? I’m loving every aspect of the read along. It’s really easy. It’s great to be a quarter of the way through. I’m really looking forward to the next 91 chapters. I’ve even started thinking about the end, and wondered if we can somehow try to schedule a time that works internationally when we can all read the last chapter together? It will be super difficult I know (particularly being NYE) but would be great fun to end the year with a NYE/Chapter 365 party. What do you think?
I’m catching up on Les Mis posts now that Waterloo (& Easter) and behind us. I have lovely runs of managing my chapter a day approach, but then I get busy and suddenly have 3-4 days to catch up on.
I’m going away at the end of the month and have decided not to take Les Mis with me. I wont be able to attend to it properly as my focus will very much be on all things Japan. So I plan to read ahead some, then catch up the rest when I come back.
Like Louise I’m curious to know who your favourite character is and I love the idea of a final chapter facetime/skype readalong.
I am also on pins and needles to find out who your favorite character is! So far, I think I like Jean Valjean best. I don’t want to raise any false hopes, but I am pretty sure he survived that drop in the ocean (hee hee).