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Malory Towers
Nov. 5th, 2017 10:04 amA trip to a charity shop yesterday triggered another fit of nostalgia when I picked up a copy of First Term At Malory Towers. It's good to be a good 25-30 years since I've read those books but when I saw it there I just knew I had to re-read it.
I was a huge Enid Blyton fan as a child - she was my first favourite author and I devoured her books. I loved Brer Rabbit, The Faraway Tree, The Famous Five, The Five Find-Outers, The 'Adventure' series,
Malory Towers is the series that made me want to go to boarding school - even though I know it would be nothing like in the books, I always wanted that experience. I never got it, and I wonder if that's what high school/college AUs are some of my favourite AU fics. But I digress.
It was interesting how much I did and didn't remember of the book. I still love (and kind of want to be) Darrell. I still highly disliked Gwendoline and desperately wanted to befriend Sally and Mary Lou. I had completely forgotten about Sally getting appendicitis though, yet remembered some of the little things like Alicia pretending to be deaf in French class.
The books are so dated now. Hell they were dated when I was reading them the first time around in the mid-late 80s. I mean they were written in the 1950s and I get why they're not exactly popular anymore, they're unrelatable to the kids of today.
I thoroughly enjoyed the trip down memory lane though, which is what's important. I also picked up copies of Five On A Treasure Island, The Mystery Of The Burnt Cottage ad The Secret Seven so I'm looking forward to further trips to my childhood in the coming weeks.
I was a huge Enid Blyton fan as a child - she was my first favourite author and I devoured her books. I loved Brer Rabbit, The Faraway Tree, The Famous Five, The Five Find-Outers, The 'Adventure' series,
Malory Towers is the series that made me want to go to boarding school - even though I know it would be nothing like in the books, I always wanted that experience. I never got it, and I wonder if that's what high school/college AUs are some of my favourite AU fics. But I digress.
It was interesting how much I did and didn't remember of the book. I still love (and kind of want to be) Darrell. I still highly disliked Gwendoline and desperately wanted to befriend Sally and Mary Lou. I had completely forgotten about Sally getting appendicitis though, yet remembered some of the little things like Alicia pretending to be deaf in French class.
The books are so dated now. Hell they were dated when I was reading them the first time around in the mid-late 80s. I mean they were written in the 1950s and I get why they're not exactly popular anymore, they're unrelatable to the kids of today.
I thoroughly enjoyed the trip down memory lane though, which is what's important. I also picked up copies of Five On A Treasure Island, The Mystery Of The Burnt Cottage ad The Secret Seven so I'm looking forward to further trips to my childhood in the coming weeks.
