I loved Jacqueline Wilson's Hetty Feather books so much that I wanted to be a victorian orphan 😭 It was heightened by this one book that was the diary of a victorian mill girl, even though she gets severely ill from working there
I also really liked Malory Towers, and wanted to go to boarding school, until my Grannie told me about her time at one (that wasn't very nice, lets say) and it changed my mind ! Still wanted the midnight feasts and jolly-hockey-sticks of it all though. Ultra specific: I really liked the phrase 'lashings of' for food. I wouldn't say it out loud because I knew it was outdated, but I'd write it into my own stories all the time haha
Do you remember anything like that from your childhood reads?
by Rimurururun
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I wanted a daemon (physical manifestation of my human soul appearing as an animal companion) really, really bad as a kid because of The Golden Compass series
I read “A Lua de Joana”, a portuguese book with a main character that has the same name as me. She had a room that was all white with a big moon hanging from the ceiling where she could sit. I wanted a room just like that.