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Robyn Ellis is 45% done with Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)

When your TBR list is out of control but you're rereading Theft of Swords anyway... Because I need way more Hadrian Blackwater in my life right now

— May 28, 2016 05:03PM Add a comment

Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)

Robyn Ellis is 41% done with Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

This book is amazing so far! Ross Douthat is ripping through heretics like some sort of modern-day inquisitor- all these burns being purely literary of course.

— Mar 06, 2016 12:24PM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is starting Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

This book is amazing so far! Ross Douthat is ripping through heretics like some sort of modern-day inquisitor- all these burns being purely literary of course.

— Mar 06, 2016 12:23PM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is 3% done with Laudato Si: On care for our common home

"He asks us to replace consumption with sacrifice, greed with generosity, wastefulness with a spirit of sharing, an asceticism which 'entails learning to give, and not simply to give up. It is a way of loving , of moving gradually away from what I want to what God's world needs. It is liberation from fear, greed and compulsion.'"

— Jul 04, 2015 08:49AM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is starting The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

— Nov 04, 2014 11:55PM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is starting The Screwtape Letters

I'm actually (re)listening to the dramatized audio version with Andy Serkis as Screwtape (perfect casting is perfect)

— Oct 12, 2014 09:32PM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is 15% done with Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

Man, Gaiman is just SOOO hit or miss. The first story proper in this collection was almost heartbreakingly beautiful and perfect. The second was pointlessly dark and rather stupid. You just never know which Gaiman you're going to get.

— Sep 24, 2014 07:19PM Add a comment

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

Robyn Ellis is reading The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)

I just love Sherlock Holmes. The stories are never really mind-blowing to me, but I think that's why I like them so much. They are always cozy, and Britty, and fun. You always know what you're getting, and sometimes thats nice.

— Sep 08, 2014 11:11AM Add a comment

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)

Robyn Ellis is on page 386 of 560 of Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

— Sep 08, 2014 09:42AM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is 42% done with Poems

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Robyn Ellis is 40% done with The Cost of Discipleship

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Robyn Ellis is 24% done with Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

— Sep 08, 2014 06:20AM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is on page 135 of 309 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

It's such a wonderful thing when a book is as good as you remember it

— Sep 06, 2014 11:19PM Add a comment

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

Robyn Ellis is 33% done with Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

"But suppose that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stain-glass and Sunday school associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency? Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could." -C.S. Lewis

— Aug 08, 2014 04:28PM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis added a status update

Anybody hear of the Oyster app? It's a $10/month subscription for a selection of over 500,000 e-books... if you are interested you should let me know so I can send you an invite and we can both get $15 off

— Aug 05, 2014 08:35PM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is on page 188 of 560 of Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

— Jul 28, 2014 11:10AM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is on page 75 of 409 of Sense and Sensibility

I don't know if it was the movie or what, but I really couldn't get into Pride and Prejudice and ended up giving up on it. I'm really surprised, then, at how much I'm enjoying this one!

— Jul 28, 2014 11:09AM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is 55% done with Vienna Prelude (Zion Covenant, #1)

Enjoying this one so far. I generally like historical fiction but I'm not usually much into romance. Even so, I'm pretty curious to see how things pan out.

— Jul 28, 2014 11:07AM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis added a status update

Well I still have yet to start to the process to officially change my name, but at least now it's Facebook and Goodreads official!

— Jul 28, 2014 09:32AM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is on page 399 of 512 of Gods and Generals

"But in Virginia there was no system. The cold gave way, a day or two of warm air, and the snow would melt, turning the ground to soft glue, and then without warning it would snow again..."

— Jun 30, 2014 04:33PM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is 35% done with Heir of Novron (The Riyria Revelations, #5-6)

This series is the best thing that's happened to fantasy in a long time

— Jun 23, 2014 01:27PM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is 33% done with Heir of Novron (The Riyria Revelations, #5-6)

This book just... Blew my mind then, made me super happy, then sawed my heart out with a rusty butter knife....

— Jun 17, 2014 09:53PM Add a comment

Robyn Ellis is on page 166 of 294 of Miracles

"Collective hallucinations, hypnotism of unconsenting spectators, widespread instantaneous conspiracy in lying by persons not otherwise known to be liars and not likely to gain by the lie- all these are known to be very improbable events: so improbable that, except for special purpose of excluding a miracle, they are never suggested. But they are preferred to the admission of a miracle." - C.S. Lewis

— Jun 16, 2014 06:25AM Add a comment