Les Miserables has been an on-again-off-again read for almost two years now, and it’s currently on again. 😉 The other day, I read some descriptions of a minor character, Mousieur Mabeuf, that made this booklover smile.
He had, like everybody else, his suffix ist, without which nobody could have lived in those days, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
Though poor, he had succeeded in gathering together, through patience, self-denial, and time, a valuable collection of rare volumes of every genre. He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
(Edited, because on further reflection I decided one of the passages might not be appropriate.)
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I loved Les Mis. I listened to it on audio, though, which makes it hard to get quotes copied out. Sometime I will have to return to the print version.
That is a great description. 🙂
Wonderful! I love the leaving with one and coming home with two 😉
I love it!
Happy to see I'm not the only one who spreads a book out over 2 years.