My name is Deborah (she/her), and I'm an Italian bookworm and fangirl. I was born in 1996 and raised in the South of this beautiful country, in a small town near the beach.

I've always been the odd girl, the one who dressed strangely and didn't fit in. I've always thought that if I lived in a magical world, I wouldn't be human -- I've always felt more at ease with a pair of wings or pointed ears, and speaking another language.

I'm a warm, nostalgic soul. I was born in July, so I'm a Cancer sun (Taurus ☽, Virgo↑ for the astrology nerds) and you can definitely tell from the amount of tears and the romantic stares, the daydreams, the mom friend moments and the Taylor Swift references. I'm a super awkward and shy INFP-T, an enneagram type 4 and a Highly Sensitive Person.

I've been reading since I was a child. I can't say I'm a fast reader, though. I'm more of a slow but attentive kind of bookworm: always noticing the smallest details about my current read, always overanalyzing things. Growing up, I've developed a sort of affection towards YA literature (especially contemporaries dealing with delicate themes) and I love escaping reality through fantasy books. Like many other late 90s kids, one of my greatest obsessions as a teenager was Twilight. Though I now acknowledge the long list of the series' flaws, I do have to thank my insane love for Jacob Black for consecrating me to the fangirl life (well, I also have to thank Goku and Disney for that, if I gotta be honest).

In 2018 I decided that my enthusiasm for stories was too big to be contained, so I opened this space and “learned” (more “tried and failed until they looked decent”-- and that's what I still do) to take pictures and write reviews, and this sort of changed my life, because now I feel I can't live without it.

Back in 2018, when I had to pick a name for the space I wanted to create, “Debs' Court of Dreams” sparked in my mind and it sounded perfect to me: at that time I was reading ACOWAR, but it has less to do with it than you imagine. I wanted to create a sort of virtual literary salon, where we could gather and share our enthusiasm. I didn't want it to be limited to books, and I've always been a dreamer (+ the alliteration sounds so good!), so I borrowed the expression from an author I loved and made it mine. Today, Debs' Court of Dreams has become so much more.

When I'm not reading, I'm a graduate in Modern Languages & Tourism, pursuing my dreams: I graduated in 2021 with a B.A. in Linguistics on Constructed Languages in Fantasy. Someone would probably say that I'm “a daughter of words”, since I've always been fascinated by how language works, and by the sounds and the connections between different words - they just come natural to me. Plus, I've always felt like germanic languages--especially English--were the ones my soul spoke.
By now I'm fluent in English and French, I'm an intermediate in Spanish and a beginner in German and Norwegian. One of the things I love the most about languages is untranslatable words, and my favorite one is “hygge”: the feeling of coziness you get for example when you're reading by the fire while sipping tea, wrapped in a wool sweater.
I also like travelling and connecting with different cultures.

My dream is to work as a translator or in the publishing industry, and thanks to this platform I've recently discovered my love for social media marketing & communication.

Welcome to my Court, I hope you enjoy your stay! Slide to learn all about what kind of content I post on his account.