#antonia forest

[readingbooksinisrael]

Top 5 Wednesday: Green Books

All Creatures Great and Small/James Herriot (true-ish stories, humor, animals, rural life)

Autumn Term/Antonia Forest (school story, boarding school, girls’ own)

Heartstopper: Volume One/Alice Oseman (comics, gay, school story, available online)

Nory Ryan’s Song/Patricia Reilly Gieff (historical fiction, based on family history, perseverance, potato famine, Irish history)

The Star and the Sword/Pamela Melnikoff (historical fiction, Robin Hood, Prince John era, Jewish history)

[readingbooksinisrael]

Top 5 Wednesday: Books With Autumn Vibes?

Israel only has one week of fall really but I tried.

Autumn Term/Antonia Forrest

Reason: It has ‘autumn’ in the title.

Frog and Toad series/Arnold Lobel

Reason: This is the one that reminds me most of fall. The colouring of the illustrations is done in very autumnal colors.

Blueberries for Sal/Robert McCloskey

Reason: I just remembered this one! Everybody here is getting ready for fall/winter.

Raven’s Gate/Anthony Horowitz

Reason: It has spooky vibes in a forest.

I know this is only four, but that’s all I could think of.

[schwarmerei1]

In case there are any Forest fans out there on Tumblr. It's a small fandom, but it has great writers and source material...and it's definitely femslash friendly.

[clarasteam]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Marlows - Antonia Forest Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Rowan Marlow/Janice Scott Characters: Rowan Marlow Additional Tags: Bathing, Memories, Alcohol, Daydreaming Summary:

Rowan Marlow has a much needed bath and lets her mind wander.

[schwarmerei1]

Blame-shifting

I've been reading Mirandy fic instead of my alloted quota of Antonia Forest for the readthough taking place at Trennels on LiveJournal: http://trennels.livejournal.com (It's awesome, any Forest fans on Tumblr?) This is all the fault of @damelola ETA: swatkat -- enjoy: http://damelola.tumblr.com/tagged/mirandy Telanu's "Truth and Measure" was up there with the best fic I've ever read.

[theodoradove]

"There being no future in standing still, she walked out of the forecourt and along a road which had the down-at-heel look of streets bordering railways anywhere; but as she walked, the road became a bridge spanning grass and willows and water; and not long after she walked by a high wall whose gateway was embellished by an iron falcon. And suddenly, her thoughts swarmed. This was Oxford: not merely the place where Karen had been reading Classics and Rose was lost, but a complex she'd known all her life, half-real, half-imagined -- like the Boat Race, and being Oxford because Giles was and dark blue was the better colour, so Lawrie had to be Cambridge, win or lose; like the home of lost causes and the colleges melting down their plate for the King; like Ridley and Latimer going out to be burned and this day we will light a candle; like college barges and bump suppers; like May Day and the choristers singing at dawn on Magdalen Tower; like Lord Peter Wimsey -- Wimsey of Balliol --"

Antonia Forest, The Ready-Made Family

[rheaitis]

having read-along with the discussions of Antonia Forest's Autumn Term on lj, and without having read the novel itself I keep thinking Ralph Lanyon would approve vastly of Rowan and systematically deflate Giles every chance he got.

[naraht]

Yuletide 2014

Yes yes yes, I know it's May. What's your point exactly? I'll change my mind again six times before then anyway. To nominate: Return to Night - Mary Renault Lesbia Brandon - A.C. Swinburne Sister Anne Resigns - Josephine Elder (?) Purposes of Love - Mary Renault (?) David Blaize - E.F. Benson To request: Return to Night - Mary Renault (Hilary, Julian) The Charioteer - Mary Renault (Alec) Purposes of Love - Mary Renault (Scot-Hallard or Colonna) Marlows series - Antonia Forest (Rowan?) Lesbia Brandon - A.C. Swinburne Sister Anne Resigns - Josephine Elder