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!

Morning all,

Think my brain has given up here - no ideas on either(well,CJ's is ringing bells,but that doesn't necessarily mean anything!)

Will try The Otterbury Incident on DS,CJ - I'm always on the lookout for new books he might enjoy,as he loves books,but isn't a great reader IYSWIM.

Have a good day,everyone,back later,hopefully with some inspiration!

Pogle, just be aware that the Otterbury Incident was written in the fifties so the language is a bit dated! But it's lovely, funny and all about boys fighting and then banding together in a rather endearing, post-war, life-was-somehow-a-lot-more-wholesome-then sort of way. I'm waiting for DS to be old enough (he's just six) but unfortunately he's still too into Horrid bloody Henry ...

Re the Beethoven, I know some people like to follow the score but personally I don't, I just like to listen.

llandb, I can't believe you're inflicting another auntie on us!

Moomin, I'm just drifting further and further into a cloud of befuddlement ...

Morning all!

Well, the cloud of befuddlement has engulfed me as far as the Beethoven fancier is concerned, so any chance of another clue, CJ?

And I'm equally baffled about your tarty auntie, llandb

...I know the victim was a yob and a drug smuggler but it was so sudden. I'm glad I gave him my rosary...

Moonin' - no, she's an aunt who shares a name with a Hollywood Star of yesteryear...

CJ, were you so enraptured by Beethoven that you went off with the gentleman's umbrella?

Ok,home again - hooray! and to cheer me up further I think that you,Moomin,are Patrick Merrick......(Say you are,please!!)

... I suppose you're not Patrick too,are you CJ??!...

However still no idea on llandb's aunt..

Also,AIBU to break into a castle?

Razor sharp, Pogle, you slicklet chicklet! Do you think anyone really spoke like the Thuggery? Or did AF make most of it up?

And did you find Sleeping Beauty when you broke in?

llandb, I think all Hollywood stars of yester year have auntie-type names, so another clue would be much appreciated!

AIBU to run away with a man I've never met before? Not that I can run, as such...

I find the way the Thuggery talk really irritating! I thought AF was supposed to have made it up to avoid getting teen slang slightly wrong,or it dating - I think the book would've worked better without it,though.

No,I didn't find Sleeping Beauty,I found a small animal...(well,not straight away..)

More clues please everyone!

Bloody hell. Patrick Merrick, well I'll be damned. Thuggery Affair is one of the few I haven't read, and now I want to slit my wrists as I've been outed as 'not a real' AF fan. This thread doesn't half show up your ignorance sometimes - how embarrassing! I shan't give up, though.

Moomin, you are of course spot on again. I did take the poor man's umbrella, and really ought to have listened to my sister's advice about not mixing with the lower classes, however thrilling they might seem ...

AF made it up! Ah, that explains a lot. I thought I'd never come across slang like it.

Now, was the animal you found a mole, Pogle?

...I don't think I am BU. He might be a stranger but he's a lot nicer than my aunt was. And a tramp's life is good fun...

Now my ignorance is being shown up! Umbrellas? the Lower classes? Beethoven? Please put me out of my misery,one of you!

That was quick,Moomin! Yes,it was a mole - and I am the unfortunate possessor of one of the most awful christian names in children's fiction..

CJ, Hooray!

I've only just got hold of The Thuggery Affair as the AFs I read when I was young were borrowed from the library, which leaves huge and expensive gaps to fill.

But it's such a memorable one. Jukie dominates it so much I remembered him perfectly. And Lawrie, surprise, surprise, makes a complete twit of herself.

Just poppin' by to keep this on my Threads I'm On. Y'all have been busy, but I've no idea who any of you are....

Well, it might not be the right mole, Are you Edred or Elfrida, Pogle?

Hi Poledra! Doesn't this thread leave you feeling you haven't read enough? Clue after clue,all baffling..!

Yes,it is the right mole! I am Edred,I quite like Elfrida as a name - but Edred?? But I love the book,it was my favorite E.E.Nesbit..

Ha! I remember that book! The Elfrida one, I mean ... can't remember what it's called, or anything clever like that, but at least I'm on the same page, for once.

Moomin, you are frighteningly quick off the mark, I just don't know how you do it. I also read a lot of AF from the library, which I think is why I have gaps - some of the books just weren't there. (Ooh, just remembered, must check on my ebay 5 Dolls, runs out tomorrow.)

Pogle, I was being bonkers Helen Schlegel from Howards End, whose passion for Beethoven was symbolic of her general lack of restraint!

I'll come up with a new one in a minute ...

Oh god yes, Pogles - it's really battered down my smuggery about how well read I am (or thought I was, rather). I mean, I read Peter's Room loads of times when I was in my early teens (wanted to be Ginty, would have settled for Nicola but suspected I was actually Lawrie ), but I don't think I ever clicked that it was part of a series. Want to read the rest now

Poledra! Come back! We need your help with an auntie, and you're really good at aunties.

Edred was such a brat. I far preferred Elfrida. But I don't think either name would meet with much approval on the baby name threads.

And I wasn't being a bit clever. It was just the only one with a small animal and a castle that popped into my head.

What I find scary is that I'm remembering stuff read donkeys years ago much better than something I've read fairly recently. It is age gallloping creeping up on me!

Good luck with 5D in a H, CJ!

What I find scary is how much of what I've read seems to have gone in one ear and out the other,leaving only vague traces behind!

Pogle, me too - probably something to do with galloping through the books to find out what happened, skipping huge chunks of descriptive prose and generally not paying enough attention. But it's true, I find the ones I read when I was younger have stuck for far longer ...

AIBU to disrupt the play mid-performance?

...I'm having such a strange dream now. All the people wear funny clothes and the way they talk is odd too...

Night all!

Are you disrupting this play because you haven't realised that it is Not Real?

Will ponder more overnight - night all!