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The Full Monte Readalong | Week Two
Read more: The Full Monte Readalong | Week TwoBonsoir mes amis et bienvenue sur le blog pour la deuxième semaine du ‘Le Comte de Monte Cristo’. Ok, that officially exhausts all my French language knowledge. For those unaware of the reason for my (frankly shoddy) French, I am currently taking part in Laura from Reading In Bed‘s 2018 summer readalong for Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte…
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The Full Monte Readalong | Week One
Read more: The Full Monte Readalong | Week OneIf you’ve been around these parts for some time, you may remember my participation in the War and Peace Newbies Readalong last year. I didn’t actually finish the book (I still haven’t, ok?) but I enjoyed the hell out of myself reading War and Peace and doing weekly summary posts of what had went down in Russia…
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The Full Monte Readalong | Allons-y!
Read more: The Full Monte Readalong | Allons-y!Bonjour, mes amis. ‘What is all this poor French in aid of?’ I hear you ask. Well, mes amis, it’s that time of year again when Laura from Reading In Bed hosts her annual summer readalong. Each year, she picks a daunting classic to tackle over the summer months. Last year, I participated for the…
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War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week Eight
Read more: War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week EightWelcome one, welcome all, to week 8 of my weekly progress reports for War and Peace. If you’re curious about how last week went, then you can pop on over and see my week 7 progress. It’s becoming something’s an amusing fact to me that I seem to constantly be falling behind with this read…
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War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week Seven
Read more: War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week SevenWelcome one, welcome all, to the seventh of my weekly progress reports for War and Peace. If you’re curious about how last week went (terribly), then you can pop on over and see part one or part two of week 6’s progress. I’ve fallen behind with the schedule, to the point that earlier today I read something…
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War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week Six, Part Two
Read more: War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week Six, Part TwoWelcome one, welcome all, to the sixth (and a half) of my weekly progress reports for War and Peace. You may have seen my previous post which was meant to summarise week 6’s progress, but in fact was a post of two halves because I’d fell behind with the weekly schedule. This post is officially part 2…
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War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week Six, Part One
Read more: War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week Six, Part OneWelcome one, welcome all, to the sixth of my weekly progress reports for War and Peace. You may have seen my previous weekly post summarising my week 5 progress, if not please do pop on over to it to see how it went. And for those who have no idea what I’m going on about at all, you may…
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War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week Five
Read more: War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week FiveWelcome one, welcome all, to the fifth of my weekly progress reports for War and Peace. You may have seen my previous weekly post summarising my week 4 progress, if not please do pop on over to it to see how it went. And for those who have no idea what I’m going on about at all, you may…
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War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week Four
Read more: War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week FourWelcome one, welcome all, to the fourth of my weekly progress reports for War and Peace. You may have seen my previous weekly post summarising my week 3 progress, if not please do pop on over to it to see how it went. And for those who have no idea what I’m going on about at all, you may…
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War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week Three
Read more: War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week ThreeWelcome one, welcome all, to the third of my weekly progress reports for War and Peace. I am happy to report that I have officially now read further than I did on my previous attempt to tackle this mammoth of a book – if nothing else, that’s progress, and we can call it a success even if…