AIBU Books Game Part 5

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Now we've made it to a fifth 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 set all my sights on getting a rich husband?

NIMCP... am totally stuck

And welcome Vampireslayer! Which reminds me - I think we should get started on our scary themes now, it is nearly Halloween, after all...

ooOOOOOOoooooo

...he's been learning all sorts of new things, and I'm sure it's affecting his appetite - his father and I are worn out trying to get enough food for him!

Morning all!

Oh, lummee, I've just been checking and mine was on TV 25 years ago! I really am an Aged Parent.

NIMCP completely on everyone else's.

...I should have realised I wasn't going to have a happy ending. I did marry my true love and set up home in our beloved Sennacharib but I was so badly wounded by the Germans that I'm not long for this world...

NIMCP...

Moomin, have tried googling yours but no luck

...I just hope his flying improves soon, he was mistaken for a Catherine Wheel the other day...

Are you an owlet who's afraid of the dark, Treacle?

...It was a bit of an ill-starred life. You couldn't call me a Queen of Hearts, more of a mighty huntress...

I'm the owlet's mother - thank goodness he's now realised that dark is kind and dark is exciting!

And you are Diana, I take it? Have never ever heard of this author before, is it worth looking him up?

So, to start the halloween theme...

AIBU to refuse to leave?

The owlet's mother, yes, of course, sloppy Moomin .

Diana is definitely one of his weaker books but The Dreaming Suburb and its sequel The Avenue at War are well worth reading, as is To Serve Them All My Days (I bet you've heard of that one). He's a good, old-fashioned storyteller with likeable characters, a decent plot and no too clever by half annoying trickery.

More details please, Treacle, and more clues on everyone else's, please!

Scary theme coming up...

AIBU to wonder why my uncle keeps asking me my age?

ah,another one to add to the must-read list(Diana - I have read The Owl one!)

AIBU to not tell them about the vampires?

Ooh, Pogle, it really all depends on who "them" are... your parents? The local friendly werewolf pack? The travellers heading up to the spooky castle on the hill? Three old women on broomsticks with a mangy cat?

Any of those?

...I don't seem to be a welcome guest, but I suppose my conversation is rather limited...

Magrat is not old, Treacle! Just geeky.

And is your conversation limited to banging on about Fate and forgotten bones?

...He's really a distant cousin but much older than me. I'd never met him before but he asked me my age twice in the first couple of minutes...

...well,anyone,really...

Treacle, 'Eek'! Are you doing a halloween animal theme?

(Have been on children's health thread discovering that DD isn't about to come down with the pox or transmit it to the preggers category of the world after all - if things change I shall ask y'all to go there and give advice!)

Hello vampire! It's probably obvious to everyone but me, but may I ask who or what lwfh is? I'm guessing, 'Ludwig the Forward Half'. (LLANDB is lemon, lime and bitters because someone else had taken gin and tonic)

Well, you lot, MCP! And we'd better finish mine so I can do a spooky one... or perhaps I can make it spooky!

... perhaps now her family have hit even harder times, I can win her back (now that she's inadvertently persuaded me away from preaching so I don't mind a bit of temptation)...

llandb,yours is driving me to distraction here,MCP! (so,re:your comments on Cuthbert,are you preaching in the North?)

...the problem is that if I do tell them,they'll make assumptions about me. I can't tell them about him either..

cj will she have a room with a view?

treacle, does your baby like avocados?

am about as good on halloween as i was on pirates

desperation...llandb, is the woman rain?

spooky oooooooooooooooooooooh!!

Hmm, polly, who is this rain woman then?

Pogle, sorry, not sure what i said (have done something to browser again, probably opened some dodgey tabs and it is slooooow so going back pages is painful )

...but I'm actually doing my wandering open-air preaching in the SW of England.

... I helped her one night on the family allotment and bought toys for her little siblings and gave her finery to wear - you'd think she'd be grateful. But, no! (insert spooky) - she's coming at me with a knife!

Very very puzzled - MCP!

Rain...desperate attempt at googling (last refuge of a scoundrel!)

have absolutely no idea...

That's another one for the must-read list then,Polly...

Well,I thought you might be a Poldark type person,llandb - but having read your last,I guess not.(Hardy??) MCP,and quickly! (pretty please!)

..I just want to forget it all,and get back to making cinnamon rolls...

Chandelier time for you, Pogle (in a spooky cosutme) - perhaps my father shouldn't have bought the d'Urberville title after all!

I wouldn't mind a cinnamon roll but NIMCP - and a spooky goodnight to all!

Gosh, polly, please do that rain book and then AIBU it

(Oh dear, ignorant on Poldark )

and did tess for a level as well...

llandb....not if that means i'd have to read it

Oooh,can I wear skin tight lycra(and a witches hat,perhaps) - even though that was pure fluke and no book title was mentioned??

(actually,won't need to read some of these books at all after seeing them AIBU'd here!)

Night all!

Polly, you are clever - I believe her companion will indeed be ensuring a good view of Firenze ...

I am completely and utterly stumped on everybody's. Can't think of any spooky ideas.

Enjoy your frivolity in Norfolk,CJ!
And if you've read the Booker shortlist,you'll be a finer and better person for it (etc, etc),even if it's no help at all here!

Is your lover likely to die,or are you just being neurotic?

...I mean - what normal human has a friend who is a vampire...

Wow, I missed out on a lot here - bit confused now.

MCP on yours please Pogle... are you Bella? And MCP to everyone else too!

Thanks for the info on your name, llandb, I had always wondered about that.

Yes, I am another animal, and my conversation's even more limited than fate and forgotten bones...