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?

Crikey! So much for my plan to pick a vaguely low-key hair-sacrificer.

(No telly, purely due to apathy - will have to scour You-Tube)

llandb are you releasing something into the ether?

treacle, does your friend prefer women to men?

...No, she's just too young to be interested in that sort of thing. Not that she's much younger than me, but she was brought up very differently! She's really made our house a more pleasant place with her visit though, even my brother's behaviour has improved...

Oops, treacle, I misread your post and thought 'ooh goodie, they've made a filum of Melisande'
but no, the one before that
But 4 music had Britney, so we still had ourselves hair-sacrificer in there

Stuck as traffic in jam...

So, AIBU to suspect that my wife is a bit uncaring?

Evening all! Still completely mystified by your one, Treacle.

Does she not brush your hat, Llandb?

...The telephone rang and my mother rushed to answer it. And she forgot to take the book...

...Well, ten years later, and she's come back to town to be a music teacher! I wish she'd come to parties with me but she feels embarrassed by her lack of party dresses. Despite this, I'm worried she might be stealing the heart of my beloved Mr Sydney...

More clues, please!

am thinking of requesting a no idea, more clues smiley...maybe a hmm face with a switched off lightbulb and a magnifying glass would work....

...It's more that she's constantly hanging around bars with her boyfriends while I'm at home with the kids. Oh, but wait, now I'm a widower!

(Insert more clues smiley)

llandb, are you in summerland watching your wife?

llandb, are you thinking of moving north now? Perhaps somewhere by the sea?

Nope - but the DDs and I are about to up sticks and move to the sticks with my long-lost auntie...

Cross- posted, treacle!

Yay, Treacle, chandelier time for you! - sure hope I enjoy my new reporting job.

To Newfoundland, perhaps?

...She's broken it off with Mr Sydney for my sake, but now we've lost all our money, I wonder if he'll still be interested? At least my brother's broken off his engagement with that awful Trix...

X-posted again!

Treacle, it's all sounding rather Old-Fashioned ... (oops, googled emoticon)

Bingo, CJ! Now I must get on with some needlework...

Oh, I loved The Shipping News, especially the very subjective reporting - man dies horribly, but he did a stretch for molesting his daughters way back so "guess they're not crying"!

Treacle, when you tear yourself away from your needlework , what was your one?

...I can hear a rumbling noise and there's a really nasty smell...

Clues?
Pretty please?

AIBU to run off with the stranger who stumbled into our lost world?

what was yours treacle?

llandb was he from the brave new world?

moomin does the book contain a contract with the devil?

... He is from the outside world - where morals are topsy-turvy! And he frowns on my friend's dispomania!...

Greetings!

Llandb, if your friend is your mother I can't think of anything but Brave New World either! Another clue or two, please?

...No, no devils, but there are two of them, and they want to eat me...

... and he thinks our hallowed banking system is peculiar!...

Hmm... bit lost on everyone else's. More clues please!

Mine was An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa Alcott. Much espousing of traditional values - there's a very funny scene where the brother finds out that his affianced wears rouge

AIBU to go to London without permission?

PS - Read my first Jasper Fforde yesterday - amazing! Just went to the library and took out everything else they had by him...