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?

Ah, the wonders of Google!

It looks enchanting, Llandb, but I've never heard of it. I'll have to keep an eye out now.

...He says it's because his rich aunt wouldn't approve...

Moomin, does his rich aunt also disapprove of handbags?

...I think she disapproves of everything except him, and she would probably disinherit him if she knew about me. So he says, but I wonder if the secrecy's become a game to him...

Night, CJ!

Ahhh, Ramona the Pest! I knew I knew it, but it was buried so deeply in the recesses of my memoery. Was that the one where she talks about switching on the dawnzer? I had to ask my mum about it as I'd never heard the American national anthem.....

NIMCP on the rest!

moomin are you jane fairfax?

llandb, even i managed to find that on google, it sounds cute.

nimcp on the others

Pol, was it Ramona the Pest or Harriet the Spy who talked about the dawnzer? I have such a clear memory of reading that, but can't remember which book it was!!

CJ, I think it was Ramona, as I don't think I ever read Harriet the Spy way back in the mists of times. As I am very old, I am quite ready to be proved wrong though

Afternoon, all!

Pol, CJ, the 'dawnzer' is from Ramona the Pest. She thought it was a another word for lamp because it gave a 'lee light' - poor thing.

My copy, now DD's, came from Chip Club back in the Dark Ages, and I loved it but had no idea there was a whole series of them until I was buying for DD.

And, well done, Polly. I am engaged to the unsatisfactory Frank Churchill! Somehow, I doubt that wedding ever came off despite the timely death of the monstrous auntie.

CJ, I give up. I'm never going to get this but I'd love to know what it is.

And now, AIBU to give a child a book?

dances around to the tune of hectors house (because i always want to know these things)

now then moomin yanbu unless the book contains drawings of his father and mother in the joy of sex stylee

Ah, Hector's House! That brings back happy memories. It was years and years before I realised it was a French programme because when I was watching it I couldn't read the title.

...It's a book of fairy tales. I don't see how anyone could object but her parents are very angry...

well moomin are they from a religious group that objects to fairy tales?...if there is such a thing, casting around for clues!

ps yabu if you are MIL ...then it doesn't matter what book you give{smile]

I hope that doesn't mean you've got a misbehaving MIL, Polly, lots of sympathy if you have.

...They don't object to fairy tales per se, but they weren't happy about that particular book or that I gave it to her...

Hello everyone!

Moomin, did you write the book yourself?

AIBU to dislike my daughter?

moomin, my

So, pooped, and nincompooped!

am liking the sound of an autumn hedge coloured bag....

Sadly, it's a boring evergreen hedge-coloured bag (actually it's a khaki-coloured hemp thing)

AIBU to propose law reform?

NIMCP

'Night!

Not nearly so good as Jasper Fforde, I'm afraid, Polly, as Treacle will attest, having just rumbled me - well done, Treacle! Actually, the words 'pile of tripe' spring to mind but I thought it would make a good AIBU before I put it back in the Oxfam pile.

Treacle, it sounds a bit U but you may have cause. More detail, please. And from you too, Llandb the athletic!

AIBU to consider marrying a younger son?

Moomin, I definitely agree - am staying well away from her books in future! I'm also actively avoiding Richard & Judy book club choices since all the ones I've read have been appalling.

Law reform? NIMCP llandb!

...She's just such a know-it-all. It's very annoying...

You might have something there, Treacle!

At the moment you sound like Mrs Weasley but I thought she liked Hermione!

...I was just flirting with him at the start. What else is there to do to pass the time in the country...

You're sounding rather Austin-ish, Moomin - have you recently been indulging in some amateur theatricals with your rakish brother?

...Goodness knows, she'll never get a man when she grows up if she carries on like this...

Moomin, what was yours?

I keep trying to meddle, and they keep teling me, "Don't!"

Mine came highly recommended but I'm too ignorant or was too dozey at time of reading to appreciate all the super-clever subtle jokes

Oh, yes, and NIMCP

well have briefly been on the how to unblock a toilet thread, delaying the exquisite pleasure of being on here.....

treacle are you a margaret forster mum?

llandb, wild stab are you Cranmer when henry 8th wanted to marry anne boleyn? or maybe something to do with reform of the slavery laws

moomin ..the playing field is too wild to guess...is he gentle or a roguish male?