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Blessed be, my witchy friends. How goes the spell-work? Messed with any thanes lately? Yeah, me neither. There just aren’t as many power-hungry Scottish nobles willing to commit a little regicide these days, are there? Anyway. ENOUGH CHIT-CHAT. I have news. Ready? Guys. GUYS. I saw The Witch on Sunday and I. Am. Freaking. Out. FREAKING OUT.…
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HELLO THERE. Long time no see. Did you guys know it was 2016? Yeah, me neither. Anyway, I hope this capricious new year is treating you right a month and a fortnight in. Me? Oh, the flimsy foundations of my life are crumbling to dust around me as I type this, faithful internet friends, but…
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(The subtitle of this post is “Why is this so good, I don’t know why I like this so much, I probably shouldn’t like this so much but oh my god this is amazing.”) Christ, poppets, I forget all about you and this silly blog. I’m living it up on this FUNemployment vacation – some…
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Hello, my delicious, chewy, chocolate-chip cookies! Gather round the toadstool, won’t you, while I force you to bear witness to my great and terrible nostalgia. I was a Brownie for about three glorious months when I was a wee girl. And I was a BOSS. The whole shebang was right up my alley: fairy-tale influenced origin…
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Salve, Citizen! Only the most basic of civilities today, hope you’re well, what fine weather, etc., etc. Onward! So last week I read a book I didn’t expect to like, mostly because – brace yourselves, cupcakes – I can be a bit of a genre snob. And smack my face and call me Sally, didn’t…
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SCENE: A barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash, and dus–no, wait, that’s Mordor. Ahem. Picture a dark, dusty, cluttered library, not unlike Bernard’s shop in Black Books… (CAMERA PANS SLOWLY TO ROBYN’S SERIOUS FACE, WHICH LOOKS ALARMINGLY SIMILAR TO HER RAGE FACE) Hello, my tasty little ice cream sandwiches. Welcome to a very special episode of the…
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I lied to you, party people. LIED. (Surprise, surprise.) This week we will not be Tolkien about Tolkien (lol nerd) because I did not, in fact, indulge in a Ringer re-read. DON’T BE SAD, BOWIE. IT WILL HAPPEN SOON. But, as Aragorn son of Arathorn, Isildur’s Heir, would say, it is not this day. No,…
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Howdy, guys and dolls. Happy solstice! Now let’s all go gather herbs and dance around a fire. But seriously. It’s been a while, because despite what T.S. thinks, June is actually the cruelest month. So. How ARE you? Nothing new on Planet Robyn. Just a boat against the current. A very lugubrious boat. With a dragon head. (Can you tell…
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Ruh-oh. I just realized that amidst all the excitement of my fan-girling gif party ‘book review’ of Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane (my last post), I forgot to, er, finish the actual review. My bad. Any excuse for a Vikings gif, am I right? Anyway. I shall do it now! Verdict: READ IT. Duh. Didn’t you…
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So I’ve been a little down lately. Life and all that. And the worst part was that I had this wretched book ennui. So much to read, as always, but nothing I was quite in the mood for. You know what I’m talking about, right? Terrible dilemma. So I picked up a book I’d tried…
The Reading Robyn 