AIBU Books Game Part 4

[MoominMymbleandMy]

Well, we made it to a fourth thread!

As before, we frame an AIBU from the point of view of a character in a book and everyone tries to guess the book and/or the character.

Everyone welcome to play/time-waste as much or as little as they please.

New thread, new AIBU...

AIBU to refuse to read aloud?

. . . You can't say I'm racist, I have a very ragtag group of 'friends', but you couldn't say the same for some of them . . .

Gosh I've really missed a lot here! No computer at home at the moment so can only come on when in the office...

...we've just moved here and would really like to make some friends, but are having a lot of trouble...

well... nope, still stuck on all of these!

Are you in the south(as in south of the USA)
Star?
And unfriendly locals are a bit like PITA sisters,and eccentric Aunts,lots of them around!

...so,we have made a plan - none of us can afford to get caught,but we're all at home on the hills...

Nope, not in the south! I've traveled all over though, to the ends of the Earth and back. . .

... the shrink couldn't do anything for me, and now that gamekeeper has ideas above his station!

Need to be able to colour-code each person's posts (oh, is this possible but I don't know?) as it's all getting too confusing for me! Oh and an admission of stumpedness.

Evening all! I've been distracted by my nice new copy of Gone With The Wind, you'll be glad to hear, Pogle! I'm not loving Miss Scarlett but the accounts of the war closing in on Atlanta are very gripping and kept me up much, much too late.

And I think I've recognised one! Llandb, are you and the lusty gamekeeper heading for a tryst in Penge?

So that leaves Treacle's, Star's and Pogle's to beg more clues for, please!

At least Miss Scarlett entertains!

And yes, Moomin', I'm Maurice - and I'm still more perplexed than perspex on everyone's.

AIBU to buy a telescope?

Hmm, depends what you're using it for, I'd say...ships good, neighbours undressing bad...

So what is its purpose?

Continued plea for more clues from Pogle, Treacle and Star, because you're all bloomin' baffling!

It's for the night sky! Actually it's for my bf - but our relationship is secret so I have to pretend to be his patroness...

Joining the clue-plea.

'Night, All!

Morning!
Glad you're enjoying GWTW,Moomin - I've just got Tales of The City From the library,have far too many books here at the moment!

Also joining the clue plea!

...We plan to tell the landowners what we will poach,and when,then see if they can stop us!...

... I feigned an interest in his pusuit as an excuse to join him on the tower. But now I have fallen for astronomy, and he has fallen for me! Pity about my terrible husband...

Puzzled as a jigsaw!

Afternoon all!

Llandb, could you be accused of a)slumming it, and b)cradle-snatching, by certain narrow-minded persons?

Pogle, I have no blessed idea at all but I hope you're liking Tales of the City.

AIBU to be sick of chickens?

Clues? (Hopefully)

Yay Moomin, yes, I'm star-crossed Viviette from Two on a Tower!

I want to do pirate-themed things but will hold off until Talk Like a Pirate Day

Oh good!

...Raising chickens is not all it's cracked up to be. They smell, they fight and they drop dead for no reason...

Talk like a Pirate Day??

Chickens?

...we've adopted an alias - poaching not being something we could do as ourselves - (a Tory Cabinet Minister, MP(and ex Attorney General) and Banker)...

...And with no running water, no electricity, and a baby and a toddler to care, for this is certainly not proving to be a rural idyll...

This sounds just like a book my friend has,about a couple who dropped out of city life - in America -to raise chickens,set in the 1950's?? Probably something far more mainstream though,cunningly disguised!

Oh Pogle! I don't do cunning disguises - mine are about as subtle as a sledgehammer!

I was wondering if you were a clever vulpine but I'm back to stumped mode now.

...We are in America but a few decades earlier than the 1950s. And we're living in the middle of nowhere and I've discovered I don't like my DH...

Pogle, I think you're thinking of The Egg by Betty McDonald - where my username comes from (preens!). So Moomin, if it's not that, then I'm doubly intrigued. Can't beat a good book with chickens in!

Ah, I thought you'd recognise that one immediately, MaKettle. I was going to mention the slovenly neighbours for my next clue!

AIBU to not want to eat any more raw onions?

Yes,that was it - all I had was a vague memory of it sitting in her bookshelf,and reading bits of it while we were visiting!(memory of the period way off,I see!)

So should I reveal mine? I'm sure if you'd read it you'd be recognising it by now.
...We are poaching in Scotland,and in the 1920's...

Ah, nice Google-able clues there, Pogle! I've not even heard of it. Should I be looking for it? And I'm sure you'd love to read all of The Egg and I.

...And I'm a bit sick of eating raw eggs too. But it's all part of my apprenticeship...