Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - Cosy reading vlog & review 🕯☕📚

If you need one final push to start reading Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, then I hope this is it! I started recording when I hit the last 100 pages and thought it would be fun to have you join me. Hope you enjoy.
0:00 - Cosy vlog
03:14 - Annotating
03:50 - Cosy vlog
04:21 - Thoughts
04:53 - Cosy vlog
05:17 - The sewers of Paris!
05:43 - Cosy vlog & cat interlude
06:37 - Quote & thoughts
08:35 - Thoughts & tears
09:37 - Music tip!
10:40 - Crying
12:19 - Review
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[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Want to know more about Victor Hugo's life? Watch this one next 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHbbgqOaobWreJI

[@ArthurKain]

I adore books that challenge me to feel uncomfortable, bring me sorrow, joy, rage, and over all force me to be inside the very story itself.

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Those are the best books!

[@jorgenlundin8100]

I know this will sound silly but I'm so happy to have found your youtube-channel, it is so different from most of the channels that I follow, This was a Nice update, I feel honored to have the opportunity to follow how you read the book, how it touches you, even to the point of shedding tears..

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

What a kind comment! This really means a lot. Thank you so much. 🥹

[@jenifermaester8263]

This video did EXACTLY what your description said. It made me want to pick up Les Misérables immediately. I'm so glad I have a physical copy! Thank you for sharing your tears with us! I am working my way through The Crimson Petal and the White and I read out of that book for an hour a day, every day (thanks to your tips for big books) and there is this character in it and I fear that something is going to happen that will not be good and the way that I am reading slowly (your tip again) is making me more attached and more deeply invested in the story than I have been before. So I am afraid that I will cry if something happens to this character. I have never cried at a book before and that speaks volumes because I never fully immersed myself. So thank you for sharing your emotions with us! I really really look forward to starting Les Mis very soon!! (Also bless Toulouse for making biscuits and sensing your need for comfort!! And then promptly sticking his very cute butt in your face. Cats are a gift! Mine does that to me all the time!) ❤

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

I'm beyond happy to hear you will pick it up soon - I hope you will enjoy it just as much as I did. It's great that you can put my tips on reading big books to use, that makes me very happy. And yes haha, I agree, cats are a gift. He's the best reading buddy imaginable. Thanks for this lovely comment, Jenifer. It's always wonderful to hear your thoughts.

[@ManonJos]

That is exactly the kind of motivation I needed to finally read it. Thank you! I love your channel.

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

I'm so excited for you! Enjoy this masterpiece 😍

[@ManonJos]

Thank you

[@PeterDobbing]

Deeply moved by your video and your obvious love for this book. Have started it.myself, 13ish pages a day for the next three months. Will be looking at your other videos. Many thanks.

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

This is such a kind comment. I'm glad you're reading the book and I hope you will have fun with it! Thank you. 🙏

[@apollonia6656]

Chopin 👏👏👏

[@victoriajoy7016]

side note: your room is so beautiful

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Haha thank you!

[@fernandonietoabad7842]

Its like a feelings spoiler, i dont know what happens but know what im gonna be feeling. Now im gonna have to buy and read this. Damn you scoundrels and your youtube videos

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Haha, thank you for making me laugh. Amazing. Happy reading - I hope you will enjoy it just as much!

[@eduardomesquitapasquali2331]

I love this book. Let's select our top 5 characters? (it may change over time, but I'll write down my top 5). I've read this book twice and I want to read more times. 1. Grantaire 2. Javert 3. Eponine 4. Gravoche 5. Mabeuf

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

It's so hard to pick only five and list them! 1. Jean Valjean 2. Marius 3. Javert 4. Cosette 5. M. Myriel

[@lukasweidinger6839]

I love this book

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

It's a masterpiece.

[@dggjr1759]

Which translation would you recommend

[@Yesica1993]

I did enjoy reading the book but his thing of stopping the plot and going into a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong description / history of this and that drove me crazy!

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

It definitely is something typical to Hugo's style. It didn't really bother me, but I can see why it could be annoying to many readers.

[@apollonia6656]

Waterloo and then sewers.....phew ! I did read every page but cannot say much about the sewers ! What made Hugo interested in them me.....reminds me of The Shawshank Redemption 😂

[@apollonia6656]

This brick book is great but here is a problem when asked a question and be cause of it's size you cannot remember or even find the page ! NO SPOILERS Am I imagining that Valjean's hair turns white in one night ? Honestly, tried to find if this is true means I will have to re-read the novel !😂 A simple yes or no will suffice....no need to say why if his hair did turn white in case of spoilers. Yex, I tried to read it in my early teens without success, but twenty years later did read the whole book in 10 days, give it take a few days ! Thanks and Kind Regards from VB. PS: UT are to blame for typos 🙂

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Hello. I'm glad you enjoyed the novel. I can't remember anything about Valjean's hair. I'm so sorry! :)

[@apollonia6656]

Thank you. Btw: Subscribed 👏

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

@@apollonia6656 Thank you SO MUCH! Glad you decided to stick around!

[@persephone_jones]

Beetje random, maar van waar heb je de sjaal/wrap van rond de 2:48? :O Deze video is echt top, trouwens! Ik heb deze al zo lang in mijn boekenkast staan, en nu heb ik echt zin om er in te beginnen!

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Oh, wat spannend! Ik ben blij om te horen dat je er zin in hebt gekregen ;) Mijn sjaal komt uit een souvenirshop, gekocht in Rome. ^-^ Bedankt!

[@madwez]

Rare Beauty i´m in love with you :D

[@DeadNetCord]

When Jean Valjean decided to grow apart from Cosette and began to refer to her as madame, it hit me hard. Since you mention the battle of Waterloo, would you be so nice to give us the corect pronunciation of Waterloo? Like the way it should be pronounced.

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Indeed, that is such a heartbreaking moment... Do you mean the Flemish pronunciation? Because there isn't a French one :)

[@DeadNetCord]

​@@ProseAndPetticoatsYes please give us the Flemish one.

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

@@DeadNetCord Waah-ter-low (without pronouncing the w)

[@DeadNetCord]

@@ProseAndPetticoats I see. Just to make sure - the very first letter "w" is the same as in "win"?

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

@@DeadNetCord Yes!

[@Yesica1993]

It's not "religion." It's the biblical worldview and it's the foundation for the entire story and Valjean's transformation. Everyone believes something. You (apparently, going by your statements here) believe God does not exist. Oh, no, Notre Dame has even more digressions than Les Mis? Thanks for the warning! I do want to read it, but it's good to know that going in. Maybe I will tackle it this coming year.

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

I'm glad you will be reading Notre-Dame. The storyline is amazing, in my opinion. Yes, lots of digressions, so be warned haha.

[@erickus36]

This book is considered to be an historical book as well as a novel because of the description one of the only one in history of the égouts de Paris! Victor Hugo was one of the greatest writer of all time, seems to me like the best writers,music composer etc are all in the past.. Today's culture well is just boring and meaningless...

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Hugo is my favourite 🤎

[@ignamagan]

I am well into the book and I think it is the most over rated shxt I´ve ever come across in my life, it´s not realistic at all, characters have dilemmas that do not look like real life at all, but rather the imaginary world of good and evil of a bourgeoise that is pleased to think they know and understand the lives of the lower classes, it´s stupid morals of good and evil is an absurd pamphlet of good behaviour where guilt is more powerful than kindness, and obedience more important than justice, you come out of that book more stupid than you entered, Im sure Hugo was a prick, and also to torture you over a thousand pages with the stupid cruelty of those destinis, what, am I supossed to think Im wise because I was a witness of all of that? Come on people, open your eyes