thereadingrobyn
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This highly readable debut from author Melanie Golding is a clever and creepy reinterpretation of classic folk- and fairy-tales. An elegant melding of crime fiction, fantasy, and horror, it tells the story of a young, isolated mother convinced that her newborn twin baby boys have been switched with “changelings” by a malevolent fairy creature. She…
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Hello hello you gorgeous gleaming diamond-encrusted Fabergé eggs. Yes, it’s that time of year again, god help us. Another list. I’m sure you’re as sick of these wrap-ups and rankings as I am, but hey, sometimes you have to do stuff you don’t want to, like decide on a wedding reception playlist with your antagonistic…
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Good evening, my scrumptious lebkuchens. How are your delicious lives? I for one am glad that November is about to end. It’s been a hell of a month (but isn’t it always?). I completed my probationary period at November, you ruthless son a bitch, I will be glad to see the back of you. Between…
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Hey hey, book-dragons, how’s life? I am currently at my wit’s end (where else), and the cause is, unsurprisingly, the entire wedding industry (and also the Catholic Church but let’s not get into that). I won’t bore you with the details, but a gentle word of advice to my as-yet-unmarried readers… FUCKING ELOPE FOR FUCK’S…
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I’m in a foul mood, crumpets. No spirit for a preamble. Time to savage a book. Today, it’s Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility – which is yet another of my library’s book club picks. Cover Talk We haven’t even opened the book and already I feel like I’m in West Egg. Or is it East…
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Guten Abend meine leckeren kandierten Nüsse. (Yes, I just called you my delicious candied nuts because I LOVE YOU that’s why). How goes it? All well and good in your cozy den of iniquity? Today, I will share with you a brief anecdote that just goes to show you that even your most hardened prejudices,…
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Hey hey, welcome to another edition of Less Than Sober Blogging. Tonight’s drink is the tears of my enemies on ice… jk, it’s vodka coolers cuz I’m a basic bish and A LOT OF THEM. I guess I should tell you why I’m Less Than Sober, right? I mean, the actual reason, not the vodka…
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A very spoooooooky hello to you, my perfect little pumpkin pies. How has the month of Halloween been treating you so far? I hope you wake up and blast this festive carol every morning to get you in the spirit of the season: Today I bring you yet another fun-size review (find the other three…
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Ignore that title, you are all perfect. How is life, mes petits mignons? Is that correct? I have no idea, my French lessons are a nightmare, the teacher is an absolute turnip (I am teaching myself). Life is good and God is great and every moment is a blessing, and I hope all things are…
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…his and mine are the same. – xo, R (& G)
The Reading Robyn 