Things that are appropriate while reading October Daye novels: Headaches. Coffee. Cutting your mouth on potato chips so you taste blood.
Tag: reading
To read aloud is to assure oneself that one is reading…
On Tumblr (Re-Reading Les Mis)To read aloud is to assure oneself that one is reading, and there are persons who read very loudly indeed, as though positively proclaiming the fact.
Those who falter…
Javert is so angry at being overruled regarding Fantine that he reports M.Madeleine as being Jean Valjean even though he still has no proof. So when he’s told that the “real” Valjean has been found, he not only feels that he’s been insubordinate, but that he’s done so for the wrong reason, and must be made an example of. He insists on being dismissed — simply resigning isn’t enough, because that would be honorable — because of the one-slip-and-you’re-out philosophy summed up in “Stars.”
This figures years later, when he allows Valjean to go free and feels he’s again in conflict with superior authority. But how can you resign from God?
This is one of those bits that wasn’t in the stage musical, but was added to the movie. I didn’t like it the first time through the film, mainly because of the execution (sorry, Russel Crowe), but after rereading the book, I agree with adding it. Even if it didn’t come off as well as it could have.
On Tumblr (Re-Reading Les Mis)Yes, I do believe there are more pages in front of that bookmark than behind.
Yes, I do believe there are more pages in front of that bookmark than behind. #reading #LesMiserables #books #bookmark
At the halfway point!
At the halfway point! #LesMiserables #CoffeeBean #coffee #books #reading
I just finished the chapter in Les Miserables that focuses on the Battle of Waterloo.
I just finished the chapter in Les Miserables that focuses on the Battle of Waterloo. Thoughts at Waterloo
#books #lesmis #lesmiserables #waterloo #reading #wordswordswords