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?

ps i keep wanting to make NIMCP into nincompoop

well this nincompoop has ni and would like mc, p!

I had a feeling it was probably the wrong long lost sister, Treacle, and I am feeling a complete nincompoop over this one.

At least I can make wild stabs in the dark on CJ's .

...If only the boat hadn't drifted loose in the storm...

I am totally stuck on everyone's, as per usual... more clues, more clues!

...Now my mother's lost her job - where are we going to get food from? But our guest is getting suspiciously plump...

Still NIMC but your one sounds quite sinister, Treacle.

...Well, I say boat, but strictly speaking it was a sampan. I was looking after the ducklings and the piglet at the time...

treacle, is it wartime and your guest sleeping with the enemy?

others, nincompoop...

Feeling exceedingly nincompoopish this afternoon!

...And my mum's boyfriend doesn't seem to be welcome in the house any more either. I know something terrible happened to my mother when we were younger - the huge scars on her back are testiment to that...

Aaargh, this isn't ringing any bells, Treacle, so I don't think I can have read it.

And, yes, NIMC!

...And it drifted all the way back to our poor, burnt-out village in Japanese-controlled territory. With me, the piglet and the ducklings on board...

moomin, i can't remember the title or author but is it one that the "where the wild things are" man drew the pictures for...if it is that one, it made me cry.....if it's not, i have no idea!

Too lazy to write the nicmp word in full, so - nimcp?

How long until the thread is filled up? I'm afraid to start one that may carry over into another!

Oh, well done indeed, Polly! I hadn't registered it was Maurice Sendak who drew the illustrations before, but you are absolutely correct. And yes, it is heart-rending. I got quite croaky when I was reading aloud the ending to DD.

And to further jog your memory:

...I had to let the ducklings swim away but I've still got Glory of the Republic for company. And he's the best pig in the world...

Llandb, we got the others up to 1001 posts before starting a new one and I'm sure we've carried AIBUs over before...but leave me a post for the end-of-thread list, please!

Treacle, still NIMC ... and pooped!

I am utterly, utterly stumped. You could all be talking a different language, for all I know!

CJ, don't disappear! We need clues for your cosmopolitan new girl!

Oh all right then ...

She just seems so exotic and brave and different. She doesn't have a mother, and she's travelled to all sorts of amazing places. Whereas I live at home in a rather dull existence with my two rather dull parents. I don't think my mother likes her at all!

Sounds like Pippi CJ, or have I missed something back in the thread?

...I don't blame my mother for what she did, she would have done anything rather than go back to slavery. But I'm not sure our visitor sees it that way...

What was yours, Moomin? It rings a bell - I think I've read about it, but I don't think I've actually read it myself.

Umm, Beloved, Treacle? I've never been able to bring myself to read that one but the plot sounds similar.

CJ, is this going to end in tears, murder and a prison sentence?

Nice to see you, Snow, mine was The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert de Jongh.

I don't think so, Moomin ... but I am learning a real appreciation of the Magic Flute (oh, and I'm not Pippi either!)

Erm.. NIMCP!

And here's one that genre-breaks, but which I hope will be solved before the thread fills :

AIBU to live in a shoe?

Well, cheating by Google got me nowhere there!

Are you an Angela Brazil heroine, CJ?

I think your choice of habitat is more eccentric than U, Llandb but beating and starving your offspring is most definitely U.

And this thread is getting very slow to get into so I think it's time for the end-of-thread list.

Time for a new thread!

But before we vanish:

Inkheart Cornelia Funke
Scuffy the Tugboat Gertrude Crampton
The Railway Children E Nesbit
The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
My Friend Flicka Mary O?Hara
The Silver Brumby Elyne Mitchell
The Trixie Belden series Julie Campbell Tatham
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris Leon Garfield
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death MC Beaton
The Time of the Ghost Diana Wynne Jones
Le Morte d?Arthur Thomas Malory
The Pea and the Princess Mimi Grey
Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett
Mr Bump Roger Hargreaves
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A Wolf Jon Scieszka
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
Mr Chatterbox Roger Hargreaves
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew Mary Wesley
A Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry
What Katy Did at School Susan Coolidge
The Year of the Griffin Diana Wynne Jones
A Stranger at Green Knowe Lucy M Boston
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L Frank Baum
The Herb of Grace Elizabeth Goudge
The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Flanimals Ricky Gervais
A Little Princess Frances Hodgeson Burnett
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
The Family at One End Street Eve Garnett
Further Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild
Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers
A Blood Red Horse KM Grant
The Full Cupboard of Life Alexander McCall Smith
Impunity Jane Rumer Godden
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
Greenwitch Susan Cooper
Dirk Gently?s Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams
Twilight Stephenie Meyer
The Illustrated Mum Jacqueline Wilson
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine l?Engle
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Alan Garner
Maurice EM Forster
Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy
The Egg and I Betty MacDonald
John MacNab John Buchan
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth and Me EL Konigsburg
Watership Down Richard Adams
The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle
Tender is the Night F Scott Fitzgerald
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier
Changing Places David Lodge
The Tale of Two Bad Mice Beatrix Potter
Dr Dolittle and the Secret Lake Hugh Lofting
Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice
Agnes Grey Anne Bronte
Snow White
The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkein
The Gruffalo?s Child Julia Donaldson
Rebecca?s World Terry Nation
The Thief Lord Cornelia Funke
The Go-Between LP Hartley
Harding?s Luck E Nesbit
Something Rotten Jasper Fforde
Silly Billy Anthony Browne
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkein
The Worst Witch Jill Murphy
The Story of Dr Dolittle Hugh Lofting
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgeson Burnett
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
The Witch?s Children Ursula Jones and Russell Ayto
Tess of the d?Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson
The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean Auel
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Come Back Lucy Pamela Sykes
Witch Week Diana Wynne Jones
Cross Stitch Diana Gabaldon
Tom?s Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce
The Magician?s Nephew CS Lewis
Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban JK Rowling
The Butterfly that Stamped Rudyard Kipling
The Molesworth series Geoffrey Willans
The Inspector Morse mysteries Colin Dexter
The Tree that Sat Down Beverley Nichols
Finn Family Moomintroll Tove Jansson
The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West
Elizabeth and her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim
A Room with a View EM Forster
Metroland Julian Barnes
The Ready Made Family Antonia Forest
The Turn of the Screw Henry James
The Attic Term Antonia Forest
Rivals Jilly Cooper
Mary Poppins Comes Back PL Travers
Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Graham
The Players? Boy Antonia Forest
The Wool Pack Cynthia Harnett
Chocky John Wyndham
Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgeson Burnett
The Pirates of Penzance Gilbert and Sullivan
A Traveller in Time Alison Uttley
Peter Pan JM Barrie
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
The Great House Cynthia Harnett
The Asterix series Goscinny and Uderzo
Captain Pugwash John Ryan
The Story of Dr Dolittle Hugh Lofting
The Pirates? Mixed-Up Voyage Margaret Mahy
The Tale of Custard the Dragon Ogden Nash
The Nutmeg of Consolation Patrick O?Brian
A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes
Fanny Erica Jong
The House at Riverton Kate Moreton
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
On the Banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder
Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
The End of Mr Y Scarlett Thomas
The Three Little Pigs
The Screwtape Letters CS Lewis
Campbell?s Kingdom Hammond Innes
Too Many Daves Dr Seuss
Melisande or Long and Short Division E Nesbit
The Shipping News Annie Proulx
An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott
Erewhon Samuel Butler
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Worrals Carries On WE Johns
Beware of the Storybook Wolves Lauren Child
There?s a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake Hazel Edwards
The Last Battle CS Lewis
Heidi Johanna Spyri
The House of Sixty Fathers Meindert de Jongh

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Oh my good Lord, I didn't get half of those ... my ignorance really is showing now.

See you on the new thread!