Weekend Blog Hops - 25 March 2017

How do you handle negative comments left on your blog?

I've been pretty lucky in that I've never had any really negative comments left on my posts. I get the odd bit of spam, but I simply delete those.

 

Opening sentence:
"When once sordid interest seizes on the heart, it freezes up the source of every warm and liberal feeling; it is an enemy alike to virtue and to taste--this it perverts, and that it annihilates."

From page 56:
He was anxious that his family should not perceive the skeleton; an object, which would, probably, excite a degree of horror not to be overcome during their stay.

 

My Current Read

The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

 
Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt. They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past - a skeleton, a manuscript, and a rusty dagger - are discovered in concealed rooms. Adeline finds herself at the mercy of the abbey's proprietor, a libidinous Marquis whose attentions finally force her to contemplate escape to distant regions.

Rich in allusions to aesthetic theory and to travel literature, The Romance of the Forest is also concerned with current philosophical debate and examines systems of thought central to the intellectual life of late eighteenth-century Europe.

My thoughts so far....

I've read several other Radcliffe novels and, while I liked them all, I believe this is my favourite. I am down to the last couple of chapters and keen to see how it will end. I'll be sharing a review over the weekend.