Status Updates From The Neverending Story

i truly cannot imagine what encompasses the second half of this book because it feels like we hit a natural ending and then are just... dragging it out for??? reasons, i guess

such a classic. not my first adult re-read of this but i just realised the human that had visited fantastica a long time ago "shexper" was a reference to shakespeare. huh. i've read this so many times it was unexpected to discover something new...