Recs if you like La Belle Sauvage...

Name-calling and insults you might hear on the playground and beyond...

Anything can be an insult if you believe it! My kid brother used to get in trouble for calling us "you...you BEAN" with all the spite his little preschool self could manage 🥹

Books that all take place in Oxford

A pick of romanticist fiction, poetry and essays, both 19th century and contemporary with adjacent vibes, from me to you. Expect sentimental, but often dark stories and magical places real and fictional, alternative and mythological.

2013-2026

All of Philip Pullman's novels and short stories written around the His dark materials serie, in chronological order.

Note: The imagination chamber doesn't really take place in one specific moment or place, as it's a collection of scenes happening during the events of many different books.

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