AIBU Books - Part 3

[MoominMymbleandMy]

I can't get into the old thread so I think we filled it up! I hope everyone finds the new one.

So nice, shiny new thread, nice shiny new AIBU.

AIBU to be jealous of my DH's correspondence with a stranger?

Pogle, I feel I ought to know yours but I'm not getting anywhere.

Maria, this isn't ringing bells at all now. Doh!

Oh dear - should I give up? Wasn't sure on how to go for these anyway! (We are in India,and I am a sergeant in the WAC.We were televised in lots of episodes years ago.. No dead bees though...)

Wild stab in the dark coming up - The Jewel in the Crown???

,thank you Moomin! (I think I may have been traumatised by the dead bee scenario....)

Though I suppose strictly speaking it's the Raj Quartet,I couldn't manage The Jewel in the Crown specifically!

No, thank you Pogle! It was the only one around the right period in India I could think of.

That has worn me out.

So, ...well, I couldn't scrap it, not after what it cost me, but if I'd known it was going to treat us to a penny dreadful every night...

Night all!

Moomin, I have no idea but I just wanted to thank you for reintroducing the phrase 'penny dreadful' to my life. Am going to use it as much as possible over the next few days!

Meanwhile, AIBU to have more than a bit of a crush on a monk?

Came on for a quick look and am now wondering in what circumstances you'll be able to use 'penny dreadful',CJ!

Going away now to do housework and brood on these clues..

moomin yanbu if he is also a monk, yabu if he is much older than you

cj are old books your thing?

pogle, it is worth a read but part of what made it good was the sense of this chap gradually building himself up after every disaster only to come crashing down again and you now know that that will happen....give it a few years

I am wondering that too, Pogle!

CJ, is the object of your romantic interest doomed to a mysterious death?

...It is a lesson to me. I shan't buy no more kiddies' toys, no matter how old and valuable they are...

Yes,CJ,I was wondering if your monk was significantly older.I think the one I'm thinking of is a ex-monk though(however if you are a monk as well I'm completely lost!)

Moomin,I am baffled...

CJ, or, if your beloved is not doomed to a mysterious death, then perhaps he might be doomed to enforced celibacy.

...And, as for this business of poisonin' grandpa...

I'm not a monk, I'm a girl. He's not significantly older, but he is doomed to a horrible death - as am I, but I just can't help myself ...

CJ, should you be very wary of bricks and mortar?

moomin, sre you a puppeteer?

No Polly, just a humble antique dealer.

Moomin, you are very clever! But we knew that ... Thought I'd probably given too much away but couldn't resist it. What a horrible way to go ...

Still can't get your antiques dealer and the penny dreadfuls

CJ,your beloved - was he a monk when you first developed feelings for him?

CJ, thank you again, but really I just read much too much. It was a really nasty end, but did you think the re-incarnation plot sat a bit uneasily with it?

...and as for grandpa returning from the grave to take his revenge on the kiddies...well...

Bother! and Moomin's response doesn't help me at all! who are you then, CJ? (Please?)

Oh hang on- is Green relevant at all here?
(You can tell I'm desparate to know!)And it will soon be school run time and then who knows when I'll be able to get back to the computer..

I am poor, innocent Celia de Bohun, who loved not wisely at all, and was punished for shagging the local monk and getting pregnant by being walled up alive. Green Darkness, Anya Seton.

Moomin, I quite liked the reincarnation bit but then I read a long time ago at a very impressionable age, and I liked the idea of it all sorting itself out generations later. Know what you mean, though - it was all a bit convenient, them being in the same place at the same time, and her husband was shitty to her, wasn't he, then suddenly changed? Must read again ...

Still no closer on the penny dreadfuls. Is this piece of furniture a dolls house?

Cross post, Pogle, yes, well done!

Thanks CJ,now I can go to school happy!(the walled up body at Ightham Mote,which I think was the basis for the book,scared me rigid as a child..)

Oh clever, clever CJ, you are very warm indeed! I don't think Kezia or the washerwoman's children would have fancied this one at all. But it would make an ideal setting for Marchpane!