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Les Miserables: Valjean Raises Suspicions

Part 2, book 4, chapter 4 - in which we explore the tensions between hiding away and continuing to be the kind and compassionate man Valjean has become
Les Miserables: In Becoming Dirt, She Has Been Turned To Stone

Part one, book five, chapter eleven - numb with despair, Fantine gives up all hope of anything ever changing
Les Miserables: Fantine Hits The Bottom

Part one, book five, chapter ten - A downward spiral with no easy way out
Les Miserables: A Dark Response

Part one, book five, chapter nine - The woman behind Fantine's firing finds hapiness in seeing her suffer.
Les Miserables: Fantine's Demise

Part one, book five, chapter eight - Fantine's single parent identity is uncovered and used against her.
Les Miserables: We Meet Javert

Part one, book five, chapter five - Everyone has a backstory, and Javert's is an important one
Les Miserables: Cosette The Lark

Part one, book four, chapter three - Cosette's early childhood with the Thénardiers
Les Miserables: The Thénardiers

Part one, book four, chapter two - we learn a bit more about what type of people the innkeepers are
Les Miserables: Fantine & Cosette

Part one, book four, chapter one - dire need drives Fantine to a difficult choice
Les Miserables: A Dreadful Surprise

Part one, book three, chapter nine - The boys deliver their surprise and the readers get a surprise of their own from Fantine
Les Miserables: Double Foursome

Part one, book three, chapter two - Eight new characters are introduced, and one of them is brought into focus
Les Miserables: Temptation and Need

Part one, book two, chapter ten - in the wee hours of the morning Valjean contemplates crime
Les Miserables: The Yellow Ticket

Part one, book two, chapter nine - a sentence served does not mean freedom in any real sense
Les Miserables: Progress and Dispensability

Part one, book two, chapter eight - an extended metaphor comparing society to a ship that sheds humans and leaves them abandoned to a dark sea of suffering
Les Miserables: A Grain Of Corn Between Two Millstones

Part one, book two, chapter seven - the dehumanizing force of a destructive and disproportionate punitive justice system
Les Miserables: A Broken Window & A Loaf of Bread

Part one, book two, chapter six - Valjean's tragic history and the reality of carceral systems
Les Miserables: We Meet The Outcast

Part one, book two, chapter one - We are slowly introduced to Jean Valjean, an outcast who can find no welcome in Digne
Les Miserables: The Loneliness of M. Myriel

Part one, book one, chapter twelve - poverty, piety & a deficient definition of success
Les Miserables: Working for the common good

Part one, book one, chapter three - some glimpses of the actual good work Myriel was doing
Les Miserables: A Chapter A Day

My plan to read through Les Miserables slowly this year and write daily responses as I read
How Propaganda Works: Undemocratic Policies & Propaganda in the USA

Thoughts from the introduction of Jason Stanley's book "How Propaganda Works" on examples he provides of undemocratic policies that are pushed forward under the cloak of propaganda.
How Propaganda Works: Inequality, Flawed Ideology, & Propaganda

Thoughts from the introduction of Jason Stanley's book "How Propaganda Works" on how inequalites in a democracy lead to flawed ideologies & those provide a fertile ground for the production and proliferation of propoganda.

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