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!

Typical - came rushing into the room to answer Snow's, only to find Pogle's beaten me to it - bah!

Anyway, AIBU to think that my mother could have told me that Grandmere wasn't in fact my grandmere but my great-aunt before I reached my late thirties?

Back to the drawing board on your travellers - I was mentally somewhere in the Caribbean.

The poker only workth on monsters, Pogle

Sorry Poledra!

Evening all!

Well, I know Snow's but so does everyone else! Pogle, Poledra, more help please!

...The more I see of my Great-Aunt the more I am convinced she is a selfish, evil, old witch...

Evening all - hope you've had lovely weekends and have suitably nurtured and pampered the fathers of your beloved DCs.

Could I have some clues please? I'm completely stumped.

I'm still on the ship with these girls, by the way. They're very tomboyish, and seem to be preparing for a fight. I wonder what's going to happen when we get to the island? It's night-time so I can't see much ...

PS Moomin, hope the eye's better!

(Read chapter 1 of 5 Dolls and the Duke tonight, thrills all round ... )

Hi CJ! I don't know whether your one is porn or a children's picture book!

Glad you're enjoying the Duke. I am now a covert to cycle helmets for grown-ups, especially nitwits who haven't ridden a bike in over two decades! I was only on the damn thing for five minutes!

...And this town is so weird. The men are like zombies and the women just cluster round my Great-Aunt...

Convert, that should be, but I do have only one working eye at the moment, so bear with me!

Evening! Can I second the request for more clues? Though yours is beginning to sound vaguely familiar,CJ - though I wonder if that's just thinking about the clues too much!

...I haven't gone to Algiers with my friend,I'm on an island,but now I'm in quarantine,and someone has chickenpox...

Oh dear,Moomin,that sounds a bit disastrous,have you ended up with a black eye?

Mine is so easy, I'm quite embarrassed that it's still hanging around. Definitely not porn, Moomin!

Haven't a clue on the others, though. Not even the sniff of a lead. I'm feeling very thick.

Umm CJ, Little Tim?

Pogle, yes, I have got a bee-yoo-tiful shiner!

I did wonder if you were in Where Angels Fear to Tread territory but each clue gets further and further away. Are you concealing an auntie in it?

...She really is evil. She's turned my brother into a wolf because he wrecked one of her horrible tea parties...

I don't know what yours is CJ, but I want to read it!
Can't figure out Pogle's or Moomin's either.
I am clearly rubbish at this.

OK, AIBU to stop the train?

Afternoon all!

Was it to pick up your fabulous Swiss Army knife, Lady G? If so, YABU, but we can't expect old heads on young shoulders.

CJ, Pogle, more clues, please!

...Now she's organised the men into a shooting party to hunt my brother down! And she's done something to my mother's memory so she doesn't even realise he's missing...

Quick, aren't you.
Gnashes teeth.

Grandfather was, at least, my grandfather. But I never knew him - he died young, as so many of those who survived the Great War did........

Just flying in to have an AF moment ... A Knife with Sixteen Blades ...

More later, got to go out!

Oh, Poledra, I'm so not with it at the moment that I forgot you had one running.

Not that I'm recognising your one either!

Evening, all - I am hopelessly stuck and in need of clues.

The ship is about to reach the island. I can see some figures on the beach. Most of them are asleep but one seems to have noticed us ...

Oh dear,are we really all baffled? Time for a bit of googling perhaps??

...I have found the baby -they are taking him to the seraglio in Stamboul...

AIBU to think I must get my friend a birthday present immediately? (new AIBU nothing to do with wandering abroad)

More clues?
(and not at all relevant,but I was desparate for a knife with sixteen blades when I was a child..)

Pogle, is your name Philippa? Travelling with a chap name of Francis?

(Shameless google, I'm afraid, but had tried same earlier to no avail, so the new clue was worth it!) Never heard of these books - any good? Having just watched the Supersizers, I'm quite in the mood for a bit of Medieval lore ...

Well done ,CJ,I am Philippa Somerville!I think they are brilliant,very convoluted plot though.The clues were to Pawn in Frankincense,which contains one of the saddest scenes I've ever read.(I'm surprised if no-one else has read them though! )

CJ,have done bit of hunting myself - is your name Tom?

Poledra,your Grandfather,was he british?

Well done, Pogle! At last I am rid of this embarrassing AIBU ... yes, I am Tom, almost kidnapped by the Night Pirates.

Down, down, down the dark, dark street they came, quiet as mice, stealthy as shadows ...

I love that book!

Still need more clues on the rest, though.

It sounds good,CJ. From the publication date we must've missed it as my DCs are a bit older.
Must go to bed now (I've been sucked into Mumsnet again,despite my good intentions!)
Goodnight!