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!

Oooh ooh, in light of the rumblings and pitter-patter outside , AIBU to observe that the rain is falling in torrents?

Hello!
Thanks for the info,Moomin,not really up to speed on what you can do on MN...
No,I don't think I'm particularly fond of horses.
And I'm wandering round the house muttering 'battlefields of France,battlefields of France' to myself-
help!!
llandb,is water your natural element?

...I don't think I am BU - Mummy should have told me...

Not at all,llandb - after all, it is falling in torrents..

A very good point, Pogle!

Oh, er, and I've gone and put up AIBUs on two separate things!

Assuming you mean the former (about wanting bigger things and going swimming), yes indeedy, water is my natural element, and there just isn't enough of it in the bath tub!

As for the second one - what was I thinking, posting a parallel water-themed book on a dark and stormy night such as this?

Dark 'n' Stormy 'Night, All ...

Morning all! Not washed away, I trust.

Yes, that was fast, Polly, we are indeed the Grey family, so I hope you're donning your sparkly thong and nipple tassels .

Someone tell me CJ's mobile library one, please.

Pogle, are you masquerading as somebody royal?

llandb, are you stranded in a hotel for your swimmer?

AIBU to change my name because I'm being sent to live with my cousins in a boring provincial town?

as we speak moomin, as we speak.....am also singing the hills are alive whilst whistling thru the air......

cj's is the uncommon reader by alan bennett where she finds a public library in the grounds of buck palace and gradually gets distracted from affairs of state by books.....she's prob on here in disguise!

she is the queen btw

Moomin, only if you're a precocious child star and worried about being recognised ...

You all have me stumped! Not in a hotel, just an ordinary residence - and perhaps 'float' would be more accurate than 'swim'. Oh, look, now I'm floating down a little stream past meadows with sheep and cows and flowers! (Probably - can't quite remember...)

I'm stumped too, llandb! More clues, please.

Very, very fast CJ! I am the famous child star Gemma Bow who is about to be dumped with the Robinsons while my mother swans off to Hollywood.

Oh, and thanks for clearing up the library one, Polly.

Are you a rubber duck, llandb?

Very close, but no, a different bath toy...

Oh dear, the brook is getting bigger. I'm starting to feel nervous, but it's very exciting!

Hello!
I'm not royal (lots of potential for people pretending to be other people out there..)

...It was such a surprise to meet someone who looked just like me...

Are you a toy boat, llandb?

Pogle, were you and your double separated as babies?

... and there are some big boats tooting and waving at me

Cross-post, Moomin - yes! Luckily the man with the polka-dot tie and the little boy have rescued me in the nick of time.

...indeed we were,Moomin,but we didn't know.Now I am in Vienna with Daddy...

Ah, then I think you have to be Lottie, because Daddy kept Lisa and Mummy kept Lottie, and then you met and swapped. At least I think that's the right way round!

llandb, I may have guessed you are a toy boat but I have no idea what the book is?!

Thread's about to run out! Haven't we all done well?

Sorry, Moomin, should have explained the Common Reader. It is fab, and a really quick read.

Yep, very well! Possibly we have also outed ourselves as having homes filled with dusty, tottering piles of books too!

Shall I stick on the up-to-date list and then we can start a brand new thread?

Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff
A Traveller in Time Alison Uttley
Saffy's Angel Hilary MacKay
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
The Miss Silver detective series Patricia Wentworth
Ring Out Bow Bells Cynthia Harnett
Nurse Matilda Christianna Brand
A Connecticut Yankee at the Court Of King Arthur Mark Twain
Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat Ursula Moray-Williams
HMS Surprise Patrick O'Brian
The Camomile Lawn Mary Wesley
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
The Toilers of the Sea Victor Hugo
Humpty Dumpty
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison
The Sixth Seal Mary Wesley
The Ghosts/The Amazing Mr Blunden Antonia Barber
A Swarm in May William Mayne
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader CS Lewis
The Sneetches Dr Seuss
Lizzie Dripping Helen Cresswell
Henrietta's House Elizabeth Goudge
The Thursday Kidnapping Antonia Forest
Saturday Ian MacEwan
The Ogre Downstairs Diana Wynne-Jones
Carrie's War Nina Bawden
The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy
Mog in the Dark Judith Kerr
Pawn of Prophecy David Eddings
Invitation to the Waltz Rosamund Lehmann
Little Red Riding Hood
Peter and the Wolf
The Borrowers Mary Norton
The Haunted Dolls House MR James
A Quiet Belief in Angels RJ Ellory
The Raj Quartet Paul Scott
Green Darkness Anya Seton
The Princess and the Pea
Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne-Jones
Watership Down Richard Adams
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan Aiken
The Poldark series Winston Graham
The Chronicles of Prydain Lloyd Alexander
A Dog So Small Philippa Pearce
Another Me Catherine MacPhail
The Train to Glasgow Wilma Horsbrugh
The Jumblies Edward Lear
The Voyage of QV66 Penelope Lively
The Lark and the Laurel Barbara Willard
Owl Babies Martin Waddell
The Gingerbread Man
The Odyssey
The Wind on the Moon Eric Linklater
Five Dolls in a House Helen Clare
Green Smoke Rosemary Manning
Cue for Treason Geoffrey Trease
Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
The Castafiore Emerald Herge
The Five Find-Outers' Mystery series Enid Blyton
The Otterbury Incident Cecil Day-Lewis
Howard's End EM Forster
The Thuggery Affair Antonia Forest
The House of Arden E Nesbit
The Neon Bible John Kennedy Toole
Harding's Luck E Nesbit
The Children of Green Knowe Lucy M Boston
Carbonel Barbara Sleigh
Mary Plain Gwynedd Rae
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower Rumer Godden
The Mennyms Sylvia Waugh
The Ordinary Princess Mary Margaret Kaye
The Common Cormorant or Shag... Christopher Isherwood
The Peppermint Pig Nina Bawden
Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Graham
Skulduggery Pleasant Derek Landy
The Growing Summer Noel Streatfeild
Noggin the Nog Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin
Miss Rivers and Miss Bridges Geraldine Symon
Claudine in Paris Colette
Emma Jane Austen
The Hamish Macbeth detective series MC Beaton
The Just William series Richmal Crompton
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe Penelope Lively
You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum Andy Stanton
Miss Mapp EF Benson
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm Norman Hunter
Strong Poison Dorothy L Sayers
Kitty and the Midnight Hour Carrie Vaughn
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Importance of Being Earnest (again!) Oscar Wilde
Mog, the Forgetful Cat Judith Kerr
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea Arthur Ransome
The Enchanted Castle E Nesbit
Travels with my Aunt Graham Greene
Starter for Ten David Nicholls
Hamlet William Shakespeare
Regeneration Pat Barker
Hogfather Terry Pratchett
Autumn Term Antonia Forest
Pawn in Frankincense Dorothy Dunnett
The Night Pirates Peter Harris
Black Maria Diana Wynne-Jones
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
Winnie-the-Pooh AA Milne
Venus in Copper Lindsay Davies
A History of the World in 10-and-a-half Chapters Julian Barnes
The Circus is Coming/Circus Shoes Noel Streatfeild
Jane's Adventures Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
The Exiles Hilary MacKay
Smith Leon Garfield
Three Men on the Bummel Jerome K Jerome
Mrs Pooter's Diary Keith Waterhouse
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
The Story of the Treasure Seekers E Nesbit
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse Beatrix Potter
Marianne Dreams Catherine Storr
Mardie's Adventures Astrid Lindgren
Rapunzel
Restless William Boyd
Excellent Women Barbara Pym
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Appointment with Venus Jerrard Tickell
Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor
The Empress of Blandings PG Wodehouse
The Wrong Chalet School Elinor Brent-Dyer
Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
Night Birds on Nantucket Joan Aiken
Persuasion Jane Austen
The Uncommon Reader Alan |Bennett
The Greengage Summer Rumer Godden
Gemma Noel Streatfeild
Lottie and Lisa Erich Kastner

FINIS

OK, that's the lot apart from llandb's boat!
Time to start AIBU 4!

Here we are