AIBU - Books part 2

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as you were ladies.

Hardcore or confirmed timewasters? I think the climate will be a big improvement Mrs D. Are you fond of grapes?

Yes Moomin, it has to be better than these dust storms!

I do like grapes, but I just have a feeling there are great trials ahead of us.

Franctically racking brain for hair sacrificers. The only one I can think of had three sisters, one of whom went off with the gorgeous, wealthy bloke next door, after our heroine was stupid enough to turn him down.

As for my dead DD, how the girl found a tree out there is beyond me.

I could only think of er..small females for the hair sacrifice too.

Stumped at yours Moomin.

Oh dear llandb you may want to rethink the watch chain if you are who I think you are...

Grapes of Wrath?

this thread moves fast!!

Morning(ish) ladies! all n ice a nd busy!

did no one want a pop at mine???sob sob? . Another clue, its not even the whose book, more like the first page. Actually more like the first line, which is one of the best first lines ever.....

Yes Scatter

I'm starting to feel pretty redundant in my job so I'm trying to re-recruit an old workmate. To be honest, I always quite fancied her.

More clues please. I am baffled by all of them.
Now, my dead DD, it wasn't a 'bonzer' day when we got the news.

Clarification on mine...AIBU to resent being interrupted during a rumpy pumpy session with my same sex toy boy by the archbishop?

Salome64, YANBatallU, if you can still enjoy that at 81, no Earthly Powers should be able to stop you.

More clues on the redundnat in my job:

My new boss is an American and we don't really get eachother. He has sent me on holiday and I'm going to catch up with an old colleague.

My last boss had some right-wing sympathies but I try not to notice that sort of thing.
Discretion is part of my job.

Salome whatever yours is, I want to read it!

Gold Star to Best! Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess it is!

Gold Star for Googling, unfortunately, but agree with Scatter that it might make it onto the library list!

And just because I think its one of the best first lines ever here is the original

?It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.?

Swoon with literary jealousy!

I think Googling shows initiative! have done a couple myself when totally stumped! a bit like a get out of jail free card.

Here's another one:

I am engaged to a lovely man. All was going swimmingly till my tart of a cousin turned up with her mysterious-sounding name and shady past.

Now it seems my fiance has taken an interest in her! Surely nothing can come of it as she is DIVORCED and therefore not fit for polite society.

Should I remain silent and hope that he will come round? Or warn the slag off?

AIBU to think the new teacher is a wee bit odd? She swans around telling the girls they are at their peak of intelligence and not to waste it. but then encourages them to hang out with the decidedly pervy art master? Should I tell the head, or trust her professional judgement?

I suppose it depends on how innocent she is? surely til proved guilty?

NIce one Salome!!

Ooh Salome, you can't be too careful. These girls are the creme de la creme.