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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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(1790) Ear-read during a long drive, this is Radcliffe's second novel and packed full of Gothic tropes: an exotic location (Sicily! Land of hot-blooded lovers!); a large sprawling mansion with decaying disused maybe-haunted rooms where mysterious lights appear; secret passages, family scandals, star-crossed love, and lots of fainting and almost-fainting and bursting into tears. It's a lot of muchness, but it was a welcome traveling companion

3⭐️ this book belongs in the category of “ what in the hell did I just read?”. It was graphic and pretty gory and really gross. But it had the affect the author wanted it to have so there you go. #BookSpin #BookSpinBingo

What cracks me up is I started both these books yesterday. Maybe I have the gift 🔮… lol, but for real these are both pretty good so far. #BookSpinBingo #BookSpin #DoubleSpin

Odd and WTF. Loved it.

One of my favorite quotes.

-Morticia Addams said it best.

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

1. I was an office assistant/contact lens technician for my eye doctor. I was 16 and worked there for 2 years. Believe it or not I went back to work for him in 2011 as his office manager for 9 years.

2. No

3. Not with constant/instantaneous communication in your pocket

#WondrousWednesday

"She could feel the vibrations of his voice in the inside of the ocular orbit as she swabbed. There was heat in his skull, such heat that the first time she had done this, she‘d drawn her fingers out as if burned: compared to the coolness of Edward‘s cracking skin, the soft warmth of his sockets was boiling, the brain-like flesh receptive and giving."