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Finished Notre-Dame de Paris on Wednesday. It was really could, but compared to the other contemporaneous French literature that I've read it was a little long-winded and I never really bought the melodrama the same way I did with, for instance, Count of Monte Cristo. To much of what people did seemed completely irrational for me to totally lose myself in it.
Read When God Was a Rabbit yesterday. It was a lot better than I expected, particularly after the first thirty pages. I found it quite light and not too heavy on the depressing elements. I really liked Elly as a character, she had a great voice, and she made sense in the context of what happened to her as a child. I was also surprised how well Joe's arc was dealt with, especially towards the end. Decent read.
About 120 pages into Crime and Punishment - I'm enjoying this a great deal more than I expected. It's a lot lighter and less dense than I had thought it would be.
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