{"id":6760,"date":"2018-04-02T20:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T03:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2018-04-02T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T03:31:51","slug":"les-miserables-chapter-a-day-read-along-25-percent-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/les-miserables-chapter-a-day-read-along-25-percent-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Mis\u00e9rables Chapter-a-Day Read-along: 25 Percent Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6764\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/javert.jpg?resize=676%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Javert\" width=\"676\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/javert.jpg?w=721&amp;ssl=1 721w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/javert.jpg?resize=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/javert.jpg?resize=676%2C323&amp;ssl=1 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, April 1, besides being Easter Sunday, was also\u00a0the one quarter mark in our\u00a0<em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> Chapter-a-Day Read-along, based on the number of chapters read.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations for making it this far, and thanks for staying with the read-along to this point. Here&#8217;s what it means to have read the first twenty-five percent of <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> together:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ninety-one chapters read, including:\n<ul>\n<li>Fourteen chapters on the Bishop of Digne<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Nineteen chapters on the Battle of Waterloo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Almost one hundred tweets with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23lesmisreadalong&amp;src=savs\">#lesmisreadalong hashtag<\/a>, including:\n<ul>\n<li>Favorite quotes from each chapter<\/li>\n<li>Pictures and images that illustrate the story<\/li>\n<li>Discovering a <a href=\"http:\/\/readlesmis.libsyn.com\/\">companion podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Discussions about translation, background, and the writing of the novel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Meeting well over a dozen significant characters, including\n<ul>\n<li>Monsigneur Bienvenu<\/li>\n<li>Mademoiselle Baptistine<\/li>\n<li>Madame Magloire<\/li>\n<li>Jean Valjean<\/li>\n<li>Petite Gervais<\/li>\n<li>Fantine<\/li>\n<li>F\u00e9lix Tholomy\u00e8s<\/li>\n<li>Cosette<\/li>\n<li>The Thenardiers<\/li>\n<li>Javert<\/li>\n<li>Sister Simplice<\/li>\n<li>Champmathieu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Getting far enough into the story to cover the first 40 minutes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesmis.com\/\">the musical<\/a>, including the following songs:\n<ul>\n<li>Look Down (Prologue)<\/li>\n<li>What Have I Done?<\/li>\n<li>At the End of the Day<\/li>\n<li>I Dreamed a Dream<\/li>\n<li>Who Am I?<\/li>\n<li>The Confrontation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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&#8217;re looking forward to the next ninety-one chapters as much as I am, especially considering we will meet my favorite character.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, April 1, besides being Easter Sunday, was also\u00a0the one quarter mark in our\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables 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&#8217;s what it means to have read the first twenty-five percent of Les Mis\u00e9rables together: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/les-miserables-chapter-a-day-read-along-25-percent-done\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Les Mis\u00e9rables Chapter-a-Day Read-along: 25 Percent Done<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[59,60],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-chapter-a-day-read-along","tag-les-mis-2018-read-along","tag-les-miserables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/javert.jpg?fit=721%2C344&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}