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?

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, me hearties!

Huzzah for delayed aunties!

...We raided a fat ol' merchantman - a goose for the pluckin', it were! But when we got back wi' our booty these young varmits had sneaked aboard our ship in all the rumpus...

no idea!
drop some more clues(n a tot of rum) in the bung hole ya festering bilge rats!

Stumped, I be!

An' beggin' fer clues!

Arrr, don't ee call me a bilge rat, ye scurvy swabs!

...Varmints were on their way to England acos' the West Indies baint a safe place and proper place fer childer. Got that 'un proper wrong...

Are we still talking pirate?

I can't GET ANY OF THEM.

Arrr, I be believin' 'tis 19 Sept in Samoa for another 45 minutes (it bein' 11:15 o' the mornin' BST). So I be intendin' to talk like a pirate until then.

But Auntie wench be here any minute. So, stumped I still be, an off to apprehend Auntie!

Happy rum-swiggin, me hearties!

...But who'd a' thought when we attacked the Clorinda we were takin' on sich a barrelful o' trouble? Mebbe we'd not be sat 'ere waitin' for us necks to be stretched...

moomin, arr bin a googlin' to put thee out of tha' misery ya scurvy wench.....b there high winds from jamaikee?

ps have a virtual g n t darling!

Be not afeared, Moomin - there's at least one scurvy varmint still a-sailin' the high seas with 'ee!

...Aye, and I had read of Miss Hackabout-Jones' exploits in a book of another name. She was a saucy wench, to be sure...

Arr, Treacle, let'n raid that ol' tea clipper together, I'd swing fer a cup o' somethin' 'ot, as a change from the grog.

An' speakin' of 'ot stuff, me ol' mate Google tells me you'm been meddlin' wi' a lass be the name o' Fanny. Rare, rollicking ol' tale that do sound! Do 'ee think us'd enjoy it?

And Polly, my cully, thank 'ee kindly for the G and T, an' knocking off me AIBU. Those were the 'orrible perishers.

AIBU to pretend I know shorthand?

Ay, 'tis a rollicking tale, t'be sure!

Tea, anyone?

Moomin, sounds like the sort of thing one of Jilly Cooper's ditzy heroines would do, but more clues please!

AIBU to fancy the girl next door?

Moomin, you can pretend but it'll get you into trouble later when you're supposed to read a coded letter and everything goes horribly wrong because of your pretence (GOD I hated that book!)

Evening all! Are we all normal again now?

So before heading off to fresh AIBUs and pastures new,who were you ,Treacle??

As normal as we ever are!

Super, super fast, CJ! I thought the U-ness was more on the letter writer's side to trust someone else to be able to transcribe her shorthand. But the whole book was a bit far-fetched.

Treacle, it all depends, more detail, please.

AIBU to give away my daughter's toy?

So it's back to the old cry of "More clues,please!"

Are you trying to teach your daughter not to be selfish,Moomin?

Um. Clues? Please?

So what was yours, Moomin?

Pogle, my book was Fanny by Erica Jong.

...I just wish there was some way of getting to know her, spying on her family just isn't satisfactory, somehow...

Greetings!

Mine was A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes. It's a bit like Lord of the Flies because the children are amoral and corruptible, quite daring for a novel from the 1920s.

Treacle, you wouldn't happen to be a handsome young chap living with your grandfather, would you?

...It will teach her to be unselfish but that wasn't the reason. I was trying to smooth over an awkward situation...

Yep, that's me!

What was the shorthand one, Moomin? And are you a pioneer, by any chance?

And... AIBU to stop my daughter seeing her friend?

Oh dear, too much rum has obviously destroyed brain cells I couldn't afford to lose because you already knew about A High Wind in Jamaica, Treacle!

Sorry, the shorthand one was The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. I suspect she hasn't much experience of shorthand.

And yes, you are bang on the nose, I am a pioneer, albeit rather reluctantly. But at least being dragged from pillar to post is going to give DD2 plenty of writing material!

And guess what arrived today from the US? The copy of Attic Term you spotted for me. And it was an AF and it's a first edition!!!
Thank you so much!

So, DD and best friend, on the face of it you sound a bit U, but no doubt you have your reasons.

AIBU to meddle with the plot of a much-loved classic?

Didn't Kate Morton write that pile of tripe The Forgotten Garden? Is The House at Riverton any better?

Hooray for abebooks! I'm glad it was the real thing, would have been if it turned out to be something completely different.

...Indeed I do have my reasons - this girl is a bad influence!

More clues please...