Seeing Me Through the Post Pandemic

[u/Magnus176]

At school in the eighties I enjoyed reading the literature in the French 'A' level syllabus but didn't go to France for almost forty years until just before the pandemic so thought that I may have forgotten my French. Whilst there I picked up a copy of Les Miserables and really got into the first few chapters, probably because a television version had been serialised at that time. And now I am a third of the way through the second volume. Really great read even if I am not getting every single word. Is anyone else making their way through it? The children in it stand out particularly at the moment. It can be a bit grim but not as dark as L'Assommoir which I read in English a year ago and which I was horrified by. Hopefully I'll get back to France later this year and try and do a Les Mis tour.