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Denise S. Robbins

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Denise S. Robbins is from Madison, Wisconsin, the city where she grew up and to which she returned to after sixteen years living and working in climate activism on the East Coast. She lives with her husband in a yellow house circled by oaks and pines and two owls. Her stories have been published in literary journals including Barcelona Review, Gulf Coast Journal, and more. Read her work and get in touch at www.denisesrobbins.com. ...more

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Average rating: 3.26 · 751 ratings · 278 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Unmapping 3.19 avg rating — 697 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vastarien: Vol. 3, Issue 2 by Jon Padgett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Harry O. Morris (Illustrator), Romana Lockwood (Contributor) 4.47 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century by John R. Wennersten, Denise S. Robbins (Goodreads Author) 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mystery Weekly Magazine: March 2020 by Mystery Weekly Magazine, Kerry Carter (Editor), Scott Forbes Crawford (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Denise Robbins has read Medium Rare by A. Natasha Joukovsky (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Denise Robbins and 8 other people liked Bud Smith's review of Medea: "The plays of antiquity, based on older myth, especially the ones I’ve read by Euripides, don’t play with foreshadowing so much as come out swinging in their opening lines to tell us directly what the foul climax of the play will bring. In this case, " Read more of this review »
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Denise Robbins and 2 other people liked Bud Smith's review of The Bacchae: "Completely metal. Dionysus rolls into town and plays the trickster, and gives birth to horror as a genre unto itself 400 BC. "
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Denise Robbins rated a book it was amazing Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by Rüdiger Safranski	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Great book. Thorough without feeling overwhelming or trite. I most enjoyed when the author went into depth on Goethe’s great works and connected them to his life at the time. Goethe was a very interesting dude who butted up against other great thinke ...more
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Put it down halfway through. I don't care about the cringe narrator or the scandal associated with this - the writing is bad ...more
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