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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: 3.23 · 971 ratings · 320 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Unmapping 3.18 avg rating — 917 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 and 97 other people liked JD's review of Shackleton's Whisky: The Extraordinary Story of an Heroic Explorer and Twenty-five Cases of Unique MacKinlay's Old Scotch: "This book has two great storylines in it, first it is the epic saga of Ernest Shakleton's 1907 British Antarctic Expedition which reached the point furthest south by man at the time, and of the whisky he took on the expedition, 3 cases of which were " Read more of this review »
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Denise Robbins liked Sebastian Ehlke's review of Double Bird: "Pretty good. The stories are all pretty memorable but tbh i should've read them while reading something else because it was sort of tiring reading through a million billion short stories by the same author. They tend to have a similar cadence, but I " Read more of this review »
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Denise Robbins and 4 other people liked Philip Reari's review of Transcription: "Some brilliant passages and probing ideas on our evolving relationship with technology, especially for parents of young children. But failed to cohere after the first section into a satisfying overall experience. I had the sense that I was missing so" Read more of this review »
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Denise Robbins and 1 other person liked Marly Beck's review of Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1): "This was fun despite the video game parts, haha. I am not a video game girl, so I found the initial description dump of the HUB system and game elements a little boring. The characters pulled me through my initial hesitation, and I'll continue readin" Read more of this review »
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Denise Robbins made a comment on Marly Beck’s review of Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) " I loved this book! Hated book 2 though as a warning! I couldn’t get through it "
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Denise Robbins rated a book really liked it The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck by Jessica Riskin	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
This was a great book, covering Lamarck and the science of his day, as well as how his legacy shaped science during a time of turmoil. Lamarck believed that animals are in charge of their own evolution: a giraffe sticking out its neck will make giraf ...more
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Denise Robbins rated a book it was amazing On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle	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 rated a book it was amazing Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing	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
This book, and the story it tells, is incredible. Literally it defies belief and right away I looked up: how much was fibbed? According to the internet, almost none of it. The author changed the age of the eldest crew mate from 40 to 56 for some reas ...more
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