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While fleeing Paris, conman La Motte is forced to take under his wing Adeline, on the run from her father, who is trying to force her into becoming a nun.

Although the effects of scenery on people's moods are important all through the book, the author really goes overboard with the travelogue sections of vol. 3, apparently based on travel books of the time. This striving for geographical realism is odd given how unrealistic the people are.

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J.K. Rowling hid her gender so readers would trust the author‘s ability to deliver a magic, adventure and action novel. That is astounding when you read 18 C female authors. Radcliffe wrote novels of castles, chevaliers, and criminals. It‘s breathtaking and one reason that she was the - the — highest paid writer of the 1790s. It was published under her own name. Review: https://www.facebook.com/1082882538/posts/10222230587968628/

This is the Radcliffe mentioned in Emma, but the finding of a manuscript is satirized excellently in Northanger Abbey. The cover on the left (from my Kindle edition) has no relation to the story, but I found the one at right online that gives the mood. Our heroine is subjected to every danger and horror imaginable, but in the end the evil get what they deserve and the virtuous are rewarded. As one expects from this era. #pemberlittens

A little pre-council meeting reading. #pemberlittens

Getting in a bit more reading before Monday morning brings it's craziness. I can always depend on Ann Radcliffe to bring some mystery and suspense with her gothic novels. Seems suitable for October.

Mini book haul today from our favorite indie store @AaronsBooksLititz while dodging the raindrops from sudden quickmoving storm. (Like I need an excuse to dawdle in a bookstore! 😉)

The beginning of Gothic Romance, glad I read it.

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

Did he think a life of mere negative virtue deserved an eternal reward? Mistaken man! reason, had you trusted to its dictates, would have informed you, that the active virtues, the adherence to the golden rule, ‘Do as you would be done unto,‘ could alone deserve the favour of a Deity, whose glory is benevolence.

I also finished this one this weekend. What a ride! I have read several Gothic Novels before, so I knew what to expect. It still was all over the place. Didn‘t find a photo of a forest in my camera roll, so I added another pic of the Baltic Sea. Including a tree!

This one is also a rather slow read. I am enjoying it, but I think I will need to add a fun book this weekend. I have a few audiobooks lined up, but need something for the eyes, too 😋

Starting this while waiting for my daughter at the orthodontist. Looks like it hasn't been a big favorite with those of you who've read it, but I'll give it a try.

While I'm glad I read it, I can't say I enjoyed most of it. I really liked the tense parts involving the abbey, but then it sort of became tedious. When Adeline isn't fainting she's reciting poet & singing...and it basically became a book of sighs.
Gothic horror you have come far. #rotf
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I can't say I was enthralled by this story, the heroine's constant fainting in the face of adversity annoyed me no end. It was ok but I far prefer other gothic authors.

If I hadn't been reading this with others in serial form I'm not sure if I would have pushed through more quickly or just bailed. Some days it was interesting and suspenseful, other days it was just over the top dramatic, and some days it dragged. My favorite parts were probably the descriptions of setting. I'm glad I read it as an example of an early gothic romance, but I'm ready to move on to something else.

#SerialReader #RotF #readalong

I'm trying to catch up and it's not going well because of all the poems and sonnets and songs and I don't even know what else. Does anyone else find them annoying? #ROTF

I'm enjoying a quiet Friday evening catching up on my #SerialReader, and there's an interesting development in issue 45.

#RotF #readalong

Poor Adeline is either fainting or deathly ill. I always thought I talked a lot but Peter might beat me out for that title. I'm trying to catch up, I've been distracted by my #novembertbr. #ROTF

Seriously this girl needs to stop fainting at every hurdle! She is annoying the bejeezus out of me.

Huzzah, I made it through and it sure wasn't always pretty. The basic storyline was good, but the storytelling was just way too dramatic and in the end way too neat of a package. Some classics just don't age very well. #ROTF

Issue 51

Adeline just doesn't get a break. Give the woman a Valium or five. #ROTF

Pairing this story with leftover Halloween monster munch and wine tonight. Issue 35 . . . and here we go again!

#Novemberland #SerialReader #RotF #readalong #ReadandEat

Issue 50 #ROTF

Does anybody else feel like saying here we go again? Maybe this time Adeline will get her hands on a dinner knife. #ROTF

I'm caught up on my #SerialReader for the first time in weeks! I read several issues of The Three Musketeers so delivery of issues is now back on, kept up with a couple more issues of #RotF, and even fit in a Lovecraft story for the Halloween weekend. Wonder how long this will last?

#AllHallowsRead

And the plot thickens...again. Will Adeline find herself in peril once again? Will she finally pick up her dinner knife and stab someone in the eye? Will La Motte continue to be an ass? #ROTF

Caught back up on my #rotf reading....I really wish Adeline would just punch one of these assholes in the throat. 😑

Repeat after me: La Motte is an ass. This is the chant that runs through my head as I read any section with him in it. Adeline needs a knife to stab someone in the eye with because that would solve a lot of problems. #ROTF

Stressful day at work but I have come home to the welcoming arms of my books and all is right with the world again.

Issue 29 - More drama while once again trapped behind a locked door! 🗝

#RotF #readalong #SerialReader

Halfway there 🤓

#ROTF

And now we learn of the nefarious plot! I'm really glad I save up episodes because I want to read until it's done because I need to know what's going to happen next. #ROTF

Almost halfway through. ❤️📕💚📗💙📘

Finally catching up on my #rotf reading. I was behind a few days, and I'm so happy I'm back in it because it's really picked up! We're getting some answers for the tension, and it's building up nicely.

I am also reading The Literature Book right. Here are the elements of a gothic novel: #ROTF ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ 5 out of 5!! 😆

Holy biscuits! Villains cause main characters to flee, check. Gloomy location, check. Trap door, check. Sense of foreboding complete with a warning, check. Waiting forever to find out what the warning is, check. Mysterious manuscript that the contents are being slowly shown to us, check. Questionable Marquis, check. Yup, the suspense is killing me. #ROTF

The story has pulled me in and I wait eagerly for each installment from #SerialReader 📚📖😱

La Motte... dragging the ladies around the dark corners of the abbey again... such a gentleman! #ROTF

Hanging out for the next installment from #SerialReader.

Tons of foreboding going on in issue #18 and it ends with a cliffhanger... Is something happening finally? 😂

#ROTF

Is anybody still awake??? #ROTF

This is not my first serial, but I wonder if for this particular book, the individual issues are too short.

At this point it feels like a slug. I just finished issue 17.

All this secrecy... this better be good once it's revealed!! 🤗 #ROTF