AIBU - Books part 2

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as you were ladies.

And the vicar wouldn't let him be buried in the churchyard.

what, moi?

landlord is beyond the pale, only good for cheating of his rent, really

the idea of asking a gentleman for money!!! Mordieu!!!

getting back to the lady, do you think I should check out the condition of her skin first?

Starlight,

Abba-themed musical & Lord of the Rings?

AIBU (swoon) to not marry the rich but borish man, my family have selected for me? I've got a handsome (fans herself in a virtuous way) friend who will help me but I'm not sure I trust him. I have a horrible feeling this might all go wrong for me, but I will maintain my morals throughout!

Defo. Never know where she's been. Are you Rastignac btw?

could we have a bit more info about those morals, Maria?

Zut alors! I suspect that maman et grandmere are grooming moi for a career as a grande horizontale avec un vieux roue.

Should I go along with their plans and hope that he will fall in love with me and marry me after all? Or concentrate on my GSCEs?

Someon said we needed a list so here's (most, I think) of what's been done so far (can you tell I'm not madly keen on marking some of the tripe science work handed in by my year 8s?)

General Fiction

Brideshead Revisited
Northanger Abbey
The DaVinci Code
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Handmaid's Tale
The Iliad
Catcher in The Rye
An Inspector Calls
Ballet Shoes
Changing Places
Last King of Scotland
Box of Delights
Sherlock Holmes
Little House on the Prairie
A Suitable Boy
1984
Sense and Sensibility
Room with a View
Waiting for Godot
The Time Traveller's Wife
I Capture the Castle
Kes
Emma
Lord of the Flies
The Darling Buds of May
Silas Marner
John Le Carre's Smiley novels
Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series
The Thornbirds
Midnight's Children
Molesworth Tetralogy
Cold Comfort Farm
Precious Bane
The No1 Ladies Detective Agency
Frenchmen's Creek
Mayor of Casterbridge
The Turn of The Screw
Day of the Triffids
Midwitch Cuckoos
Howards End
The Odyssey
The Secret History
Goldfinger
Hotel du Lac
The TripodsTales of the City
Animal Farm
Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake novels
Carrie
The Wicker Man
The Canterbury Tales
Incendiary
Jamaica Inn
Strong Poison
Brave New World
Dracula
Miss Marple series
Tipping the Velvet
Castle of Otranto
Song of Ice and Fire
Mrs Dalloway
The Great Gatsby
Equus
Death of a Salesman
An Inspector Calls
Oliver Twist
Madam Bovary
Edward II
The Battle for Christabel
Middlemarch
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Lolita

Shakespeare
Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth
Winter's Tale
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Titus Andronicus

Children's Lit
The GruffaloTom's Midnight Garden
Mary Poppins
Snow White
The Chalet School
The Wizard of Oz
St Clare's
Holes
The Snowman
Peter Pan
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
The Borrowers
Wolves of Willoughby Chase
101 Dalmations
Peace at Last
Hansel and Gretel
Skellig
Five Children and It
Where the Wild Things Are
Little Red Riding Hood
Harry Potter
The Railway Children
What Katy Did
Heidi
Finn Family Moomintroll
The Secret Garden

Nursery Rhymes/Poetry/Other

To His Coy Mistress
The Lost Child
The Owl and The Pussycat
Jack Spratt

There are a few I still can't get I'm afraid.

MrsF, could you always go on the stage?

AIBU to try and trap my rich lover into marriage by getting knocked up? Will his family and friends welcome me do yo think, or will I be marginalised? I do have loads of other admires btw.

'un vieux roue' an old wheel?

Splutter! Best, that is truly selfless!

we use roue in english too, but should have an accent egule on the e. damn MN for being so parochial!

Roue. philanderer.

MrsD, there should be an accent over the last "e" in roue, but I can't work out how to do it on DH's American keyboard!

I mean accent acute dont I? much good that French degree did me then!

A dear friend of mine has for a long time been trying to improve himself by ridding himself of evil thoughts and desires.

He says he hopes that his research will enable the whole human race to free itself from its baser side.

He has been working very long hours, and I am becoming increasingly concerned that he is suffering from overwork.

He seems to have become a different person.

Do you think he might be on drugs?

Did I just blame MN unfairly? Oops!

Maria - your name isn't Pamela, by any chance, is it?

If it is you should run a mile. Your dashing friend has some very dishonourable intentions.

MM

Wow - what a fab list!

A few additions - King Lear for Shakespeare.

Classics - Oepdipus Trilogy by Sophocles

Love in a Cold Climate

Frankenstein

Bleak House

Any others?

Is he a medical man by profession Balloon? Possibly a distant relation of Gertrude?

well, this is it!!! I have absolutely had it up to here with my wife's sloppy housekeeping

came back to the flat after a long weary day in the office to find:

no food in the saucepans
no milk in the fridge
no tea in the teapot

and (you won't believe this)
NO WATER IN THE TAPS

instead of admitting that she's burnt the casserole and forgotten to pay the water rates, she comes up with a story about some weird animal having rung on the door (oh yes! as if!) and eaten and drunk everything there was (including, apparently, every single drop of water in the reservoire)

I have no idea what is going on here but suspect she spends too much time listening for the milkman to pay attention to her proper duties.

AIBU to take supper at my mother's? Alone!

or is there another solution?

I have a friend in high places who says he will get my brother off a murder rap if I sleep with him. AIBU not to tell the Mother Abbess about it?

MM

No-one having a go at mine? Shall I let these three children wander through a stepford-esque town on their way to Great Peril?

Cory, sounds like she needs a break. Take her and dd out to tea at a cafe (already done, btw, but love the spin!)

Yes, I missed off poor old Dogger as well!