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Story Before Slumber

For those who dream of living in stories...
Let's settle on writing about them.

Story Blog

Story Before Slumber

For those who dream of living in stories...
Let's settle on writing about them.

Story Blog
May 12, 2025

Cat’s Eye

Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood, 1972 Cat’s Eye is a book about retrospect. Elaine, a woman in her middle age, returns to her hometown of…

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April 16, 2025

Doubts/Witching Hour

“Doubts” was originally written by my angsty 14 year old self. It is published in Beneath The Mask Literary Magazine Issue 6 April 2025….

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March 23, 2025

Heir of Fire

Heir of Fire, Sarah J Maas, 2014 In Heir of Fire, Celaena becomes Aelin and we finally get her childhood backstory (among other things)!…

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February 21, 2025

Malibu Rising

Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2021 Malibu Rising is a stand-alone novel that is part of what I’ve heard called the Mick Riva universe:…

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February 11, 2025

The Housemaid

The Housemaid, Freida McFadden, 2022 Okay. Let me first preface my negativity by saying I did enjoy this novel! I read it in three…

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February 5, 2025

Lasher

Lasher, Anne Rice, 1993  Anne Rice, queen of dark whimsy. Amazing.  Full Recap: (Spoilers) From where we left off in The Witching Hour (book…

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January 25, 2025

The Assassin’s Blade

The Assassin’s Blade, Sarah J Maas, 2014 Before I get into it! The Throne of Glass series’ reading order is reader’s choice, and the…

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December 30, 2024

Lovelight Farms

Lovelight Farms, B.K. Borison, 2021 So this is the life I’d like to live. I’m 42 pages in, and I’ve smiled no less than…

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December 26, 2024

Hands / If I Wasn’t So Boring I Bet I’d Be Loved

Published in Anti-Heroin Chic Literary Magazine Issue 36 (a publication in this magazine was a long goal of mine) https://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by-danielle-patino Hands On a cold…

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December 20, 2024

Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, 1911 People say this is Edith’s best novel?? Have people read The Age of Innocence? I did [years ago] and…

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  • The HousemaidFebruary 11, 2025

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