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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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December 1, 2024

The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig, 2020 The story starts with the worst (and last) day of Nora Seed’s life. She’s 35 years old, living…

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November 11, 2024

Remember

Published in Livina Press Magazine, Issue 10. Available for purchase on Amazon. Author Bio: Danielle Patino is a Master’s student in Manhattan at Hunter…

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October 20, 2024

The Beach At Summerly

The Beach At Summerly, Beatriz Williams, 2023 A poised and literary historical fiction romance. It’s been a while since I’ve had the peace and…

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October 4, 2024

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, 1891 This is one of those novels I didn’t love until I read an analysis on (and,…

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September 29, 2024

Nostalgia [A Gift From the Devil]

I had somehow forgotten that the world was larger than just us. Story (very) loosely inspired by this quote from If He Had Been…

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September 21, 2024

Crown Of Midnight

Crown of Midnight, Sarah J Maas, 2013  Let it first be noted that the reading order for the Throne of Glass series is highly…

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