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Robin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Robin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Robin Hobb
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I Can't Friend You. Sorry
Well, this is silly, but it's their site and their rules.
I've been trying for over a week now to add over 700 people as friends. (When I started, the number was not that high.)
Well, Goodreads says I can't add them. Because I have 5000 friends and that's the limit.
I don't understand this at all, but it's their site and I can't change that.
I just don't want anyone to think I deliberately didn't 'fr Read more of this blog post »
I've been trying for over a week now to add over 700 people as friends. (When I started, the number was not that high.)
Well, Goodreads says I can't add them. Because I have 5000 friends and that's the limit.
I don't understand this at all, but it's their site and I can't change that.
I just don't want anyone to think I deliberately didn't 'fr Read more of this blog post »
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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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1995
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196 editions
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Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
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1996
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149 editions
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Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)
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1997
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10 editions
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Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)
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2001
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86 editions
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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
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1998
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97 editions
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Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2)
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2002
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92 editions
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Fool's Fate (Tawny Man, #3)
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2003
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75 editions
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Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)
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2000
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86 editions
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The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2)
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1999
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85 editions
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Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)
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2014
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49 editions
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A caveat! Mark Lawrence is a friend. I received this free advance reading copy from the publisher. I do not think either of these things affect my rating of the book. A couple or three more things. I really like crows. I am fascinated with memory and ...more |
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The usual caveat. Maybe. Peter V Brett and I have been friends for a long time. And I got a free copy of this book from Grim Oak Press, because, uh, I filched it off the shelf at Shawn Speakman's warehouse. Yes. Book theft. But on to the review! This ...more |
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What happened to my review? Did I type it out and never post it? Well. Anyway. If you haven't read this yet, I think it's perfect for a winter read. It's cozy, warm-hearted and ultimately kind. Does that mean there are no high-tension moments? Well, o ...more |
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“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
― Fool's Fate
― Fool's Fate
“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
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“Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia...
...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death.”
― The League of Frightened Men
...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death.”
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Hi Robin! Thank you for accepting my friend request!
Hi Robin, Thank you for adding me as a friend. I read your books in the Farseer Trilogy. It was so mesmerising with the depths of emotions you evoked with your characters that I am finding myself at a loss which other next best fantasy book to pick up and enjoy as much as I did yours :)
Hello Robin, many thanks for your friendship, much appreciated. Iain‘Hope is a place best not forgotten’ —Iain Cameron Williams 🇺🇦
Thanks so much for adding me as your friend! I love your books so much. It was after reading them that I became an avid fantasy reader.
Hello RobinI wanted to tell you that I love your books, I read your latest books first. After I had read them, it makes me want to read the next one. So then have started reading all your other earlier books, they all capture my imagination and transport me to somewhere else. My favorite characters are Fitz and the Fool. Thank you so much for writing your books, and creating them, and in so doing, delighting our souls. Best wishes to you.
I got the Farseer-triology, from my older brother, for christmas and was instantly hooked. I spent all spring reading all of your books, which are flawless and wonderful. I love all of your characters, but Fitz and the Soldier's son really has touched me. Keep up your good work!Ps. Can Fools Quest be released already? :D
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Thank you for your friendship and your wonderful books!
Thanks for becoming my friend on this site. I love your books. Keep up the good work.
Hi, good day, Robin!It's an honor to befriend an author of such high regard, thank you so much for accepting.:)
Happy New Year Robin! Hope it is filled with good times and happy memories!
Happy New Year Robin! Hope it is filled with good times and happy memories!
Thank you for accepting! I look forward to reading your reviews, and I can't wait to start reading the Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince :)
Also! Sorry for flooding - I am not a stalker, honestly!))) I want to tell about my jornalist friend who has finished the Tawny man trilogy long before me. I was begging her for a review (she is russian), for she is marvellous with picking words and digging for the essence and also writs poems, but she said - God, I can`t even closely imagine WHAT the author had to go through in the end!! Writing the Fool with such Love and almost giving him the happiness he craved but never even secretely hoped for - that Fitz would finally understand that he is full and complete only with him, and then taking it all away from both of them... Now I understand her.
I guess we are masochists))) for we love you even after that))))))
So I sending her Hellos to the Creator of the Fool also, thank you, excuse us for intruding and have a good day!!!
English is not my native, so I was afraid to write smth to the author whose narration is always like music to me. But then thought - o.k, at least I am gonna try!))) For your books are REALLY important to me, and after I finished the last, Fools Fate, and couldn`t find a place anywhere, I felt like I was gonna burst with the emotions in me - desperately needed someone th talk to, the one who Understands!... And then thought - no)) First I ll try to send you my Love and Gratitude for a Beautiful story which rocked my world. I have many questions and would like to ask you some of them, but also get that they probably would be the same ones you get each day for so many years!)))) So... once again, the main thing - Thank you!
Thanks for the friendship. I hope you have a wonderful day. :)
Meagan wrote: "I am thrilled to see you here! xxx" Thank you so much. I'm finding I really enjoy sharing the books that shaped my life.
- Tanya from Ukraine