AIBU Books Game Part 4

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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?

Pretty Ponies, I think you are being a bit U but not nearly as U as your creator if it's true that she tied her charges to a table leg to write in peace! The Brontes weren't really cut out for the governess business.

Polly, I live in the country, not Oxford, but yes, I am destined for weird and wonderful adventures!

Pol, I know exactly what you mean about anything being better than revising for Finals. Anything's more attractive than revision notes!

OK - well, it depends how old you are. If you were, say, 19, I would put it down to youthful ignorance.

yes merrylegs, I am 19 (I think), well done moomin, 'twas Agnes Grey...I've always loved that bit, she seems so indignant that anyone could possibly mind their kids grinding eggshells into the carpet.

I think Anne Bronte was a bit perplexed anyone could object to having their little darlings tied to a table leg .

Polly, any chance of another clue, please?

...So I looked through the telescope at a star, and there was a funny whirling, and I found myself in a strange room with a very cross little man. He says I've ruined his experiment...

morning all!
my stepmother is quite murderous towards me ....i have had to go into hiding with a group of men who kindly took me in...i work as their housekeeper now...

moomin, i really have no idea!

Polly, is your murderous stepmother in the habit of talking to mirrors??

Ooooh I've missed loads I shall have to think of another one quickly. Damn BT...

Afternoon all!

I'm thinking poisoned apples too for your one, Polly.

Hi, Star, are you carrying on with your old one? It baffled me completely but what's new about that!

...I'm in another world and I don't know how I'm going to get home. It's very foggy but I've met a kind man who claims he has the most painful feet in the universe...

I shall reveal the old one...it was Lord of the Rings. Was trying to be super-obscure as you clever sods get them so quickly.

...I love L.A...I hate L.A...I love L.A...I hate L.A...can you tell I'm British?...

Well, that sailed right over my head, Star!

More clues to your indecisive ex-pat, please?

...A siren's sounded. My friend says we have to get to shelter. They've slammed the doors in my face! And I can hear a slithering noise getting nearer...

got me pol and moomin!

star, are you irish and in la la land to try get an acting part

Polly certainly not! These actor types - they're far too stuffy for me...although I secretly adore them...

same author, different book....are you maggie, gone to hollywood after the breakdown of your marriage?

Nope - I'm not of the female variety - mind you this doesn't help my luck with them at all...perhaps I'm just wallowing in self-pity...oh wait...

Evening everyone, just popping in to say hello and sorry I haven't been around - RL taking over again, but in a good way this time!

Moomin - so long ago you've probably forgotten but yes, I was Hilary Swallow, long-suffering wife of rather seedy Philip.

I can't get any of the others!

AIBU to want a midnight feast?

Hi CJ, I hope you're not planning on sardines pressed in gingerbread - no wonder they were always ill the next day!

Star, I have absolutely no idea at all!

...They're GHOSTS, my friend says. Luckily, a rather odd but very welcome superhero arrived to save me in the nick of time...

No, I just fancy a snack after my long walk in the snow ...

Moomin, I have no idea what yours is but once it's been guessed I am going straight out to buy it.

Afternoon all!

CJ, you should have listened to your daddy. You know perfectly well that no Gruffalo should ever set foot in the deep dark wood!

...The GHOSTS are terrifying! I suppose I should be glad I'm a character in a children's book and not in the famous TV series for which my author created the most famous baddies of all...

Moomin, you ARE the cleverest person on the planet!

And - thanks for the clues - are you Rebecca?

Aww, CJ, if I was I would know how to print that out and preserve it as the nicest accolade I've ever had. I'd also have known not to use "famous" twice in the same sentence!

Anyway, yes indeed, I am Rebecca and I was created by the same clever man who thought up the Daleks. It's a great story, a sort of modern "Wizard of Oz" - in so far as anything first published in 1975 can be considered modern now.

And now AWBU to run away from our aunt?

i think i only know one fictional rebecca and that doesn't sound like her , what's the book moomin?

ps found this site which has readings from classic and modern novels by famous actors....fictional highlights set in context.....quite nice with your cuppa (I am suggestible,an ad-man's dream)

www.cartenoire.co.uk/index.php