AIBU Books Game Part 5

[MoominMymbleandMy]

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?

CJ, are you a vampire?

No, not a vampire! I'm a lawyer, but to be honest I don't really do much work. Though meeting this girl has made me take my life a bit more seriously, I must admit. I want to help her - she's supporting her little brother on her own, after her unfortunate father was found drowned in the Thames ...

(I understand the apples confusion now. I was almost there with the 'juicy child' reference but distracted by mention of fruit.)

NIMCP!

Blood-sucking vampire, lawyer, what's the difference?

NIMCP!

Vampires are cheaper, Pol.

It's nigglingly familiar, CJ, which is usually a bad sign for me,

NIMCP everyone!

...I was just so tired this morning that I couldn't drag myself out of bed until the afternoon...

CJ, I have a feeling we are doing the same book! In fact, I believe I am the girl you love, although I don't think it would be right for us to be together. And my ungrateful brother's not helping matters one bit, coming up with his own suitor for me...

Erm, not sure about that, treacle! (Please don't make me go back and reread the entire book ...)

I'm pretty sure I'm not pretending to be dead, although with two men pursuing me I have left London to get a bit of peace. My brother's at school now - that's half the problem, his teacher is one of my 'suitors'.

Er...umm...NIMCP!

...So I let the DD forage for herself. She's a sensible little girl and where's the harm in slobbing about in your nightie for once...

sorry about the horse/apples confusion!

cj are you eugene wrayburn?

moomin, as a one off, nbu but if it is a regular thing dh and gp need to know...especially if you are depressed ....
fish, fish....you sound like a [whispers]rachel cusk sort of character??

Yay, polly, what a star you are! Turned out all right in the end, didn't I?

MCP ...

Oh well, that was not what I was trying to remember, CJ!

...Only there doesn't seem to be any food left in the house now and the shops are shut...

Night, all!

Ah, CJ, did you never want to "come and be dead" on the roof with the doll's dressmaker?

NIMCP!

yay, it's time to dance around in my jeans, jumper and thermals
i would never believed i would get a dickens one...mainly because i've only read great expectations, this one and some of pickwick ps...hurrah! cj, he got a good one in lizzie..

so moomin, are you a rachel cusk character?

Sorry, treacle, that part must have completely passed me by. How weird is that, that we were doing almost the same people?

I do love your celebrations, Polly.

AIBU to feel sorry for my employer?

Oh, for God's sake, I've also just realised that I switched from Eugene Wrayburn to Lizzie Hexam mid-AIBU ... started thinking I was treacle, even as I was telling her she was wrong.

at CJ

Don't worry, I didn't notice that you turned into me either!

AIBU to not want to visit my family?

nor me, i was so excited that i thought i'd recognised it that i didn't read on in case i was disappointed [must get out more]

at CJ and Treacle doing the same book!

That's a Dickens I've never got round to. But I should have guessed it was him with all the long walks across London.

Sorry, Polly, not Rachel Cusk.

...And what does it matter if the DD doesn't have a bath for one day? But I'm afraid the DH might not see it like that, and I'd rather not have a row...

Evening, all!

...So I thought I'd tell him we had an unexpected visitor who polished off the food. But I'm not sure whether he'll fall for it...

It's all right, Moomin, feed him some line about an escaped big cat from the local zoo and you'll be fine - he might even take you out this evening for something to eat!

Do you think so, Pol? I did worry whether telling him all the water in the pipes had been drunk might have stretching the poor man's credulity a bit too far!

AIBU to want to go back East?

Moomin, I'm vaguely casting around here but are you friends with a red-headed girl?

moomin, do you want to be more than good friends with her?

Neither, I'm afraid

MCP on your boss, CJ.

...The house has gone and our niece. It takes the heart out of you, something like that...

Ooooh, Moomin, has her little dog gone, too?

My employer - well, he was hugely successful, you see, and sometimes people don't like that. But I have such respect for him, he's an incredible man.

was thinking about the pesthouse by jim crace (post industrial apocalypse, everyone going east to sail over the enormous lake to a better life. redhead has illness and survives village gas leak by being in pesthouse for isolaton. good book. read the last page this am)

btw am liking the idea of AOD instead of FOD!

nimcp cj