{"id":6901,"date":"2018-07-03T06:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2024-11-28T05:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:57:26","slug":"les-miserables-chapter-a-day-read-along-the-halfway-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/les-miserables-chapter-a-day-read-along-the-halfway-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Mis\u00e9rables Chapter-a-Day Read-along: The Halfway Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheCongratulations to everyone participating in the Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> Chapter-a-Day Read-along<\/a>! You’re halfway done! Yesterday marked chapter 183, just over halfway through the 365 chapters of\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>. If you’re on schedule, then you’re in the middle of Volume 3, Book 5, Virtue in Adversity. This is one of my favorite books in the novel because of the way Marius learns from his poverty, and because I think it embodies the core of Hugo’s message. I think if Hugo were to subtitle the book, then Virtue in Adversity would make a good one: Les Mis\u00e9rables – Virtue in Adversity<\/em>. Actually I think I prefer the older translation here, though maybe it’s not as accurate: Les Mis\u00e9rables – The Excellence of Misfortune<\/em>. In either case, I think it expresses what each of us knows through experience: that life is hard, but our misfortunes and sufferings make us stronger and have eternal implications. As Valjean tells Fantine earlier in the novel, “You see, the hell that is behind you now is the first form of heaven. You had to start there.”<\/p>\n

By this point in the book, Hugo has basically set up the rest of the novel and the plot will continue to build. We are halfway through the book, and yet some of the most iconic and memorable scenes are yet to come.<\/p>\n

I apologize for the lack of posts lately, but I’ve had a significant change to my professional life that, while very exciting, has prevented me from reading and writing about books as much as I would like. After twenty-seven years teaching and working as vice principal at All Saints Catholic School, I was recently appointed principal of St. John Vianney Catholic School<\/a>. It’s a wonderful opportunity, but it has filled many of the hours that I would devote to reading and blogging. Not to worry, though. I am committed to seeing the\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> Chapter-a-Day Read-along to through the end. I’m still on schedule, and I continue to post a quote a day on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>\u00a0using the hashtag #lesmisreadalong. I am not able to write an article a week like I was earlier this year, but I will write about Les Mis when I can. And I will definitely work toward some kind of reading event at the end of the year–maybe a live reading of the final chapter. Thanks for your understanding, and I hope your read-along continues to be fruitful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to everyone participating in the Les Mis\u00e9rables Chapter-a-Day Read-along! You’re halfway done! Yesterday marked chapter 183, just over halfway through the 365 chapters of\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables. If you’re on schedule, then you’re in the middle of Volume 3, Book 5, Virtue in Adversity. This is one of my favorite books in the novel because of … Continue reading Les Mis\u00e9rables Chapter-a-Day Read-along: The Halfway Point<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6907,"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":[5,3,62],"tags":[59,60],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-chapter-a-day-read-along","category-news","tag-les-mis-2018-read-along","tag-les-miserables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/excellence-of-misfortune-banner.jpg?fit=720%2C340&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","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=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9241,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/9241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/readalong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}