Welcome to Litsy!

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I can't believe I waited so long to dive into this series. Robin Hobb is a master at crafting characters. I just finished A Fool's Errand and I am NOT OKAY!! I have enjoyed every step of this journey and though I cried like a baby after finishing A Fool's Errand, I started The Golden Fool immediately after. I can't wait to continue this journey even though I know it's going to be an emotional rollercoaster

My next journey into Robin Hobb‘s amazing world. We are back with Fitz and the Fool as they journey to find a lost Prince. This is action packed and at times both funny and heartbreaking. So much love for this world! 5⭐️ a #Roll100 done! #doublespin done!

Thanks for the tag @jenniferw88 💕

This is my #top23of23

I'm gonna put this one in book jail.

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID, BOOK!

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I'm not ready to talk about it yet 😭

#booketlist

1) The rest of Fitz & The Fool
2) The Secret History
3) A Day of Fallen Night
4) The Chemickal Marriage
5) Sovereign
6) Death on the Nile
7) Babel
8) Pillars of the Earth
9) Moonflower Murders
10) The Mirror & the Light

Ok. Yes. That's it.

Part 1: my #booketlist

I've accepted my own challenge (see prev posts)

1) 1st priority is to see what happens to Fitz & the Fool. My biggest emotional investment!

2) The Secret History

3) A Day of Fallen Night. (I've been a bit obsessed since Priory)

4) Chemickal Marriage - glass books is probs my all time fave book. I will not rest until I've read the sequels. Even if they suck. Which they may.

5) The next Shardlake

6) Death on the Nile

When you open up a Robin Hobb book after reading a different trilogy and you see the map and think I'VE BEEN THERE!!!!!!

Not sure whether I should dive straight in or read a couple of easier fantasy novels first 🤔

Definitely one of my favorites from the books I read in April 2022. I was really pleased with this re-entry into the Realm of the Elderlings and hope definitely to continue in 2023 as part of the #SeriesLove2023.

#12BooksofChristmas

My April Reads 📚 #AprilStats

20 books total, 8,164 pages read, ~272 pages a day

My favorite this month was Fool‘s Errand 🐺💙

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

I‘m using this title for the #Booked2022 category Real or Fictional Royalty.

The Fool isn‘t royal (that I know 🤔) but his partner, Fitz is a royal bastard and the plot centers around their mission to rescue Prince Dutiful from...well, we‘re not sure whom at the start. This is the 1st in the Tawny Man trilogy and it was fantastic. Picks up 15 years after the Farseerer trilogy; pacing was excellent and the adventure melancholy but satisfying. 👍

1. I have only participated in various online group reads which I‘ve really enjoyed. Getting other readers‘ insights is fantastic.

2. I especially like it when a challenge gets me to read books I already own!

3. Current read is tagged. I‘m slowly making my way through the Realm of the Elderlings books by Robin Hobb.

#WondrousWednesday

Thanks for the tag @Eggs 😊

A little evening mood light reading 📖 💡

#BookNerd 💙🤓📚

Ready to dive back in and catch up with my old friends, Fitz and the Fool ❤️

#BookNerd 💙🤓📚

Top class fantasy. Really enjoyed this return to a world I loved. Fitz is such a complex character & spends the first third of this novel being an introspective grump! Then when all the recapping is done (only very slightly boring as the writing is, as always, scintillating) the Fool comes! Twists, turns, revelations, connections, references, all so satisfying. Love Fitz & Fool's relationship. Love the depth & detail of Hobb's world building.

Noticed this. Nearly fainted. I like a big book and all but what the heck?! Then I realised I'd bought this trilogy as an omnibus edition and that's the time left for all 3 volumes! 😂

Been saving the next trilogy in Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings sequence till the time was right.

The time is now right.

What a treat this is going to be!!!!

MAY WRAP UP 🌻

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Fools Errand by Robin Hobb
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Fast and Hard by Kat Ransom

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Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

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 52.
#bookstoread
#tbrpile
#bookstagram

I am not ok 😢 Robin Hobb has broken my heart. But she‘s done it so well 👏

#3books with animals on the cover.

I love stories involving animals, and sometimes an animal on the cover might influence me to buy a book. I‘ve got a TON of animal covers on my shelves.

Having recently finished the most excellent Liveship Traders trilogy I've just bought the Tawny Man trilogy ... is that the right reading order? I've asked this before & I wrote it down but I can't find it now! Any help given is most gratefully received (I'd forget my own head if it wasn't screwed on!!)

#3books that made me cry
Falls the Shadow - just so much and so wonderfully written
Fools Errand - not spoiling it for people that haven‘t got there yet but 😢😢
A Thousand Splendid Suns- makes me tearful thinking about it, such a powerful read.

Slowly getting there, it‘s a fairly conservative goal this year but I‘m determined to smash it. All this time indoors is helping.

Still haven‘t found anything new to take my fancy. I feel like I‘ve read every #EpicFantasy out there 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Add me on #goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28100116-derf-h

The following words are only applicable to the portion of the book that follows the FIRST TEN HOURS of this audiobook: clever, witty, interesting, enjoyable, and entertaining. The first ten hours, though, were literally just back story. Useful? Yes. Could it have been achieved in 2-3 hours? Again, yes. I‘d read another Robin Hobb book absolutely, but I‘d make sure I had plenty of patience before I started it.

My birthday present that I ordered for myself finally arrived today. I could just stare at these covers all day! 😍

#poormisguidedfool #redroseseptember
Sometimes The Fool can be misguided.

#lovefool #lilithjuly
Everyone loves The Fool 💜

It‘s hard to even express how much I loved this book. Robin Hobb is a true master of Fantasy chunksters. I adore the characters, the world, and the depth of history and politics she creates. My heart is going to stay with this book for a while, even as I am reading the next thing.

If you haven‘t tried Robin Hobb yet, what are you waiting for? (Start with Assassin‘s Apprentice.)

#Chunkster #Fantasy

It‘s nice to spend the evening reading with a soundtrack of rain outside. #Froedrick would rather nap. He‘s annoyed I called him several times until he opened his eyes. 😸

I‘m glad to be back with Fitz, it‘s been a few months! And while he‘s not having adventures yet, I‘m sure something is brewing for him on the horizon!
Happy Thursday from Froedrick, too!
#PetsOfLitsy

Last night I did a thing that felt a little crazy- I gathered all my TBR books that I need to read to finish my 2019 reading challenges. There are a few more in my kindle or on my audiobook list. It feels like a lot, but really this is only a couple months reading for me (if I don‘t get distracted!)
#LitsyAtoZ (once for titles AND once for authors), #LittenLoveBingo
Tagged book up next!
(Bookclub books and ARC pictured too)

It‘s been a lean reading month and it seems a Blue themed one too (total accident!). 50% were 5🌟, so not a bad month. I super enjoyed the comfort of getting back with Fitz, although tears were shed. The film (with Chloe Sevigny) was a fab pairing with Robertson‘s book. They worked well together. I discovered I love fantasy lands 80% based on real places ( thank you @DGRachel ) and I don‘t like re imagined fairy stories. #marchinbooks

#whatafoolbelieves #marchintothe70s
One of the Robin Hobb trilogies 💜

The Golden Fool is up next for me... but I‘m sensing I should ration myself, - perhaps one Hobb for every 5 other books I read! It might make the experience last longer! #bookishproblems

15 yrs have passed since we last saw Fitz, yet Hobb skilfully, across the opening chapters of the book, takes us back to revisit the world and gets us cleverly connected back into the story. It's a different pace than the Liveship Trilogy finale, giving us time to reminisce, wallow in nostalgia & feel comforted by the familiarity of characters. It was fun to see threads coming together from previous books & lay the foundations for adventures ahead

Since posting this I‘ve started a new series and got another new one in the wings! I was supposed to be finishing not starting - oh well. 🤣
Tell me what series you need to finish for a chance to win the books you need to complete the series! Last few days to enter. Closing Wednesday, open internationally.

Please let this train journey last another 300 pages... I don‘t want to stop!

So, I know I‘m supposed to be finishing series not starting them, but I just had to! 100+ pages in and I can feel Hobb preparing us for heartbreak... I‘m not sure being prepared is going to help..think this one is going to make me cry ....

Congrats @Mitch on reaching the 100k milestone! 🎉🙌🏻🎊🥂

I have several #completetheseries but I really enjoy Robin Hobb‘s books. And while not a true series, the trilogies are connected, and my next one to read is The Tawny Man trilogy, which starts with the tagged book.

So good, but so sad, but so good, but so sad! 😅 Can someone now please hand me the next book in this series? 😍

Good to be back with Fitz and the Fool again. The Fool needs Fitz to save the world again-this time by finding Prince Dutiful who is missing from Buckkeep Castle. Fitz seems to be more mature and making somewhat better decisions this time out. 4.5/5.0 #2019

#QuotsyJan19 #Today

Day 2 of our drive to British Columbia. (We are currently somewhere in Idaho.)
Dave and I are listening to this while the kids are all plugged into their devices.

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To give a detailed review I'd have to make the whole review a spoiler. It broke my heart. Read it.

Feels like this book is pointing to a harsh goodbye...
I can only hope not... I'm not ready!

I would rate this between a pick and so-so if I could, though it pains me. I love Robin Hobb but this book was just tedious. Sooo much of it took place inside Fitz‘s head, and a lot of that started getting repetitive. It picked up during the last quarter of the book, however. I can tell I‘m going to like Dutiful! #robinhobb

I would rate this between a pick and so-so if I could, though it pains me. I love Robin Hobb but this book was just tedious. Sooo much of it took place inside Fitz‘s head, and a lot of that started getting repetitive. It picked up during the last quarter of the book, however. I can tell I‘m going to like Dutiful!

Cold brew and book!
The gift of a warm morning in mid-October in Chicago. I mean, I know it‘s climate change but still...

“You love me best. You know you do. Pick me up!”

Robin Hobb, channeling the thoughts of Every Cat That Ever Lived. #catsrule