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ironymaiden) wrote2020-01-15 10:13 pm
ironymaiden) wrote2020-01-15 10:13 pm
15/366 Wednesday is anticipating reading
i got myself a copy of Les Misérables with a holiday gift card, it arrived today.
i've bounced off it a few times but i want to have read it. after wussing out on reading it en français (it's not the difficulty so much as the size of the project) i pursued the Christine Donougher translation. getting a specific translation of a public domain book is a pain in the ass. my libraries didn't seem to have it and amazon blends all the listings together in a frustrating way. i really would have preferred to have an ebook (it's over 1200 pages, which is hard on my hands) but i couldn't be confident that i would get the desired edition. i'm not even sure there is an ebook of this translation.
it looks pretty. i'm excited.
i've bounced off it a few times but i want to have read it. after wussing out on reading it en français (it's not the difficulty so much as the size of the project) i pursued the Christine Donougher translation. getting a specific translation of a public domain book is a pain in the ass. my libraries didn't seem to have it and amazon blends all the listings together in a frustrating way. i really would have preferred to have an ebook (it's over 1200 pages, which is hard on my hands) but i couldn't be confident that i would get the desired edition. i'm not even sure there is an ebook of this translation.
it looks pretty. i'm excited.