The Golden Fool | 
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1) This will surprise no one 😄
2) Paper 📚
3) I referred to Storygraph for this! Literary followed by mystery. I'm surprised Sci Fi isn't further up on the list. (I 100% DO NOT read more romance than sci fi 🤣) Expect more Fantasy and Art reads in coming months.
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1) I don't read under the influence, haha 🤣
If I was going to drink I'd want a cocktail - maybe an amaretto sours or espresso martini 🍸🍹
2) The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb 💕💕💕💕
pickThese books have my heart. There's no point in me reviewing them. 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
There is very little on the Earth, outside of my friends and family and pancakes, that I love to this degree.
This book.
I can't cope.
First we had the revelations of Chapter 12.
Now I have to deal with all sorts of emotions in Chapter: Coterie.
And I am now wide awake and need to be up for work in like 5 or so hours.
Damn it, Hobb!
Chapter Twelve 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Can't discuss without spoilers but oh my gosh 😲😲
Head spinning
And I haven't even finished the chapter 😅
pickThe 2nd in the Tawny Man trilogy is definitely a middle book, but it really advances the lore and our main characters gain depth and complexity. Fitz is still insufferable but he does gain some much needed humility and learns some tough lessons. I really love the Realm of the Elderlings world! 5⭐️
#bookspin pick complete!
I'm late with my #bookspinbingo card for April @TheAromaofBooks but I promise I haven't peeped at the numbers or card yet 😋
Will sort out a grid soon!
Although there are some serious books here, I think I'm going to prioritise reading for pleasure over the next few months. I've been ruminating too much on heavy topics and I just want to sneak around a few Victorian or Gothic mansions and solve some murders.
pickBook two of the Tawny Man trilogy. This is largely a place marker where the events of the last book are mostly resolved and the scene for the next is set up. Fitz becomes further entrenched in Farseer plans as he becomes a mentor to the prince. His relationship with his foster son is stressed, but most of all his friendship with the Fool is strained to the breaking point. Great stuff. Hoping to get to the last book this year! 🤞
#SeriesLove2024
pickHugely enjoyable/enjoyably HUGE & always compelling, this middle book of trilogy didn't suffer, as some do, for being the set-up for the big finish. LOVED the connecting of Farseer & Liveship Traders characters - experienced a delicious headspin as the 2 stories merged! Lots of spying, Skilling & political maneuvering. Lots of juicy revelations & character interactions. Oh & Fitz being a total jerk to the Fool! Could slap him at times!!!
First of trilogy done in just over a week (each book of the Liveship Traders trilogy took me over 4 weeks during the first lockdown - my concentration was shot) and now on to the next! I'm loving it so far.
pickBloody brilliant.
I was hesitant to begin this one, as I was (and am) still recovering from Fool‘s Errand. But it‘s just so easy to fall right back into this world and into Fitz‘s life again.
Torrential rain all weekend has allowed me to make some serious headway into this one. So good - I can‘t put it down.
I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 53.
#bookstoread
#tbrpile
#bookstagram
pickYet another immersive and wonderful fantasy from Robin Hobb. There were some twists that shocked me- a really big one I want to go back several books and see if I can see...
I loved the progression of many of the characters. The last scene was touching. I really hope I can squeeze book 3 of this series in to February!
#chunkster
Morning plans 😊. I have under 200 pages left, it feels like the home stretch in this #chunkster! @Mitch , was it you who told me there were big reveals in this one? Oh my gosh, the thing you find out around the middle about Lord Golden floored me! I stayed up 2 hours past my bedtime because I just couldn‘t stop reading! 💛 I will likely go in to book 3 in Feb. after I read my bookclub books.
#cozy #Sietje #petsoflitsy
pickAs with all Robin Hobb books, the characters drive you to keep turning the pages. What might appear mundane and micro details actually build to really nuanced and complex pictures of both characters histories and motivations. She a really gifted story teller and I‘m so grateful to have discovered her writing! This book is solid not spectacular.. it‘s a middle book in the trilogy and it stirs the pot nicely in anticipation for book 3.
Having a lazy breakfast - my swimming instructor showed no mercy this morning so feel I‘ve earned every morsel of this bacon bap!
#hellothursday
1- Fish finger sandwiches and doughnuts are high on the list!
2- Die Hard and anything in period costume from BBC
3- Nordic noir
4- Home spa, with candles and face pack. Equally pizza I‘m front of a good box set
5 - jump in @RatherTooFondofBooks @CuriousCaterpillar
Settling in for 4.5hr train journey up to Scotland. I‘m sure the time will fly by! #startinganewbook
pickI love Robin Hobb‘s Realm of the Elderlings series. Her writing style is so conversational and effortless to read, even while she is putting her characters through the wringer. As always, Fitz doesn‘t heed the counsel of those wiser and creates what may be insurmountable problems, even though he seems to be growing. The Fool and Queen Kettriken are characteristically rational, patient and wonderful! We meet several from Liveship. 4.5/5.0 ⭐️ #2019
As I‘m reading about dragons right now, I feel I need to repost this. 🐉 🐉🐉
1. Chocolate hazelnuts 😍
2. I bought two Robin Hobb trilogies due to Litsy- Go big or go home 🙈
3. So many! Horses, cats, rabbits, rats, mice, dogs, pollen - basically the natural world wants to kill me! 😂
4. Somewhere in between - super organised at work, slightly haphazard at home 🤷♀️
5. Murder on the Orient Express- yes, I loved it 😄 (I don't go to the cinema often, so haven't seen any new films in ages!)
#Humpdaypost @MinDea
I couldn't not go for Fitz and The Fool for this one, from Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings series. Their love exists on so many levels, and their story is both uplifting and heartbreaking. They go through so much together. Therefore, #IShipIt! @hermyknee #YAgiveaway #giveawayspree
(Image from google, don't know the artist!)
Shades of autumn. #fallintobooks
(I just LOVE photo prompts like these! 😍)
How do you deal with the feeling of KNOWING things are about to go horribly horribly wrong, when there's nothing you can do to protect the characters you love? 😖
And onward we go!
Be kind to my heart, pretty. I think I'm all cried out from the last one.
(I say this with full knowledge that Hobb is perfectly capable - and inclined - to wrench my heart out in the first three chapters. Sigh.)
#RobinHobb #TawnyMan #Farseer #RotE #Realmoftheelderlings #fantasy
pickThe second book in The Tawny Man trilogy was as enjoyable as the first!
My only complaint is that the blurb on the back made me believe that there would be more action - which there wasn't. Hobb's fantasy is more slow than many other I have read, which I love, but it always annoys me when a blurb doesn't represent the book very well.
pickI am so glad I took my time reading this.
It was a delight to read and I enjoyed returning to Buckkeep again!
Robin Hobb's character development is just flawless. And, although it is the second book in a triology, it did not seem to have the certain 2. Book feel, like some others do.
I just started this one and I am sure Robin Hobb will take me away into the Six Duchies again. Thankfully, we have books #AllIsNotLost
And the wonderful owl bookmark always makes me smile😊
@Liberty
I got so many #bookishgifts / books for christmas! 11📚!!
And I gave 6 books as presents to my family.
I had a veeery bookish christmas. What about you?
The Fool is my #favouritesidekick. Fitz would be nothing without his loyal friend. The Fool is witty and mysterious, the perfect combination. You never know what he will do next and he speaks in riddles. These books would not be nearly as good without him. #booktober @RealLifeReading
pickI sound like a broken record when I talk about Robin Hobb, but seriously, this lady can do no harm...in my mind she is queen of fantasy fiction. I got to the end of this book and realised to my surprise that not a lot of 'action' had actually happened but this did not matter at all.
Don't let the horrible cover Litsy has on record fool you, this book is amazing so far...Hobb has yet to disappoint me
