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?

Ooh Burns emoticoms!

...She wants to interview him. I could tell her lots more interesting stuff but it's him she wants, and to have him photographed sitting on her knee...

Shame to waste these, so at failure to get any further on anyone else's AIBU

Morning all!

...I thought I was talented, but the rest of my family seem to be getting all the attention...

PS - Have started Autumn Term and am glued to it - very at having to come to work instead of curling up on the sofa with it!

Morning!
So,Moomin,he's an animal presumably? Or is this interview a bit,well,hmm...

Treacle,MCP,glad you are enjoying Autumn Term - and it gets better! (IMO) All you need to do now is spend every spare moment trawling ebay for affordable copies of the other books....

CJ,please come back and tell me if you are a cowardly wizard having potato fantasies?

Afternoon, all!

Poor Treacle, having to abandon Autumn Term! I'm so glad you're enjoying it.

Are you from a musical family?

...He's a boy! But he doesn't mind soppy stuff like sitting on people's knees. Anyway, he's got to if he wants us to keep his secret...

Have absolutely no idea on anyone's this afternoon - MCP!

...My brother is musical - my sister's never been that good at anything but that seems to be changing...

We all seem to have run out of steam a bit after that flurry of AIBUs last week,don't we,? Just popping in to say bye for now,and I hope to be back at the end of the week!

Hope it goes ok, Pogle!

I just like a spot of butter on my baked potato, that's all. There's a risk I might get caught when I sneak into the house, and dragged off to do something else, and I don't really want to be distracted from this thing ...

Good luck, Pogle! See you soon.

Afternoon all!

Hope all goes well, Pogle, and you're back home very soon for a spell of MN-ing, reading and being pampered. We'll miss you.

Are you all staying in California, Treacle?

...If he gives her that interview and sits on her knee for a photograph, I bet she won't say anything about us flooding the house...

MCP, especially on the mysterious baked potato!

Don't forget to leave me a post for the end of the thread list, please!

Moomin, I have no idea what yours could possibly be but you are very, very clever getting Treacle's - once again I only recognise it once someone else has got there first!

I must say, I thought you and Pogle would get mine straight away

Umm, sorry, CJ, the baked potato has me stumped. MCP, and for Elephants' one too!

And I might not have got the right family for Treacle's.

...I expect it did the floor good to have a wash but grown-ups are funny about these things. And we do need the ten shillings for sweets and arrows and marbles and lots of other stuff...

Well, only posting to mark where I've read to. No idea on anyone's.

Hope Pogle's doing OK.

Yours is sounding familiar, Moomin, but I still can't think what it might be!

No idea on the potato, sorry CJ

And yes, we are in California, well done

AIBU to disapprove of this girl?

Sorry to have disappeared for so long! Not that I am any help now, because despite definite familiar rumblings around Moomin's I've got nothing to offer.

Unless your little brother is named after a baby animal at all, Moomin?

...Well, now my big brother has gone into town, it's market day apparently. God knows why he wants to go there, when my littlest brother went he could hardly get away fast enough!

Ooh, what was yours, Treacle?

You might be BU, is she sloppy with her housework? Or just a bit foul-mouthed?

Hooray, Treacle! But the very brief glow of satisfaction at having got one is rapidly dissipated by a fog of befuddlement on everything else. MCP all!

...And he won't want everyone knowing what he's really like, after all those soppy poems his mother wrote about him. So we'll give him the recording of him having a tantrum at his nurse if he does the interview...

Still NIMCP ...

I'm going to sneak in and get some butter. I just hope the others don't move the story on while I'm gone.

Hmm, you're sounding Jasper Fforde-ish now, CJ, but I have to admit I don't remember anything about a baked potato.

...And if Ginger's aunt gets her interview with soppy old Anthony Martin she'll be so pleased she'll tell Ginger's parents we were really good and we'll get the ten shillings. We do need it, you know...

Aha - some judicious googling and I now know that you are William, Moomin! I must read some more Richmal Crompton.

Elephants, my last one was The Painted Garden by Noel Streatfield.

...I'm worried that my son is interested in her, and I don't think she's good enough for him...

NIMCP!

Well done, Treacle! It was Aunt Arabelle Takes Charge from William the Pirate and inspired by all the AA Milne stuff we seem to have been doing lately.

I don't think Richmal Crompton was very impressed by AA Milne!

MCP again and as this thread is getting very slow to get into, I'll do the end of thread list post and start a new thread.

Beloved Toni Morrison
Tom Brown?s Schooldays Thomas Hughes
Beowulf
Bonjour Tristesse Francoise Sagan
A Certain Age Tama Janowitz
The BFG Roald Dahl
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Dr Seuss
Kim Rudyard Kipling
Beezus and Ramona Beverly Cleary
Ramona the Pest Beverly Cleary
The Big Jump Benjamin Elkin
Emma Jane Austen
The Forgotten Garden Kate Moreton
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
Matilda Roald Dahl
Temples of Delight Barbara Trapido
My Naughty Little Sister series Dorothy Edwards
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Henrietta, Theres No One Better Martine Murray
Miss Marple series Agatha Christie
Don?t, Mr Disraeli Caryl Brahms
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
No Talking After Lights Out Angela Lambert
White Boots Noel Streatfeild
The Iron Bark Chip Henry Lawson
End of Term Antonia Forest
Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
Under the Mountain Maurice Gee
The Art of Detection Laurie R King
The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield
The Princess and the Frog
Archer?s Goon Diana Wynne-Jones
Biggles Breaks the Silence WE Johns
The Warden Anthony Trollope
Flashman and the Dragon George Macdonald Fraser
Stephanie Plum series Janet Evanovich
The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Little Red Riding Hood Roald Dahl
Henry VI William Shakespeare
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Jill Tomlinson
Diana RF Delderfield
Tess of the d?Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
A Room with a View EM Forster
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
Sunshine Robin McKinley
Oliver Moon series Sue Mongredien
Lost Hearts MR James
The Witches Roald Dahl
Carpe Jugulum Terry Pratchett
Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
The Devil Rides Out Dennis Wheatley
The Face EF Benson
The Tower Marghanita Laski
Practical Magic Alice Hoffman
The Little Stranger Sarah Waters
Badjelly the Witch Spike Milligan
The Ghostly Governess Joan Aiken
The Woman in Black Susan Hill
The House of Arden E Nesbit
Oh, Whistle and I?ll Come to You, My Lad MR James
Permanent Rose Hilary McKay
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
The Provincial Lady in Wartime EM Delafield
A Pony in the Luggage Gunnel Linde
The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkein
The Spare Room Helen Garner
The Enormous Crocodile Roald Dahl
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend again!
The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L Frank Baum
The Avenue at War RF Delderfield
Thud Terry Pratchett
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
The Railway Children E Nesbit
Partners in Crime Agatha Christie
Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey
Pawn of Prophecy David Eddings
Katie Morag Delivers the Mail Mairi Hedderwick
Affinity Sarah Waters
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (the Unbeliever) Stephen Donaldson
The High Lord Trudi Canavan
The Bloody Sun Marion Zimmer Bradley
Little O Edith Unnerstad
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
Before Tea AA Milne
The Weather Warden series Rachel Caine
The ?Jill? Pony series Ruby Ferguson
The Herb of Grace Elizabeth Goudge
The Children of Green Knowe Lucy M Boston
The Children of Green Knowe again!
The Night Before Christmas CC Moore
The Box of Delights John Masefield
Five Children and It E Nesbit
King John?s Christmas AA Milne
King John?s Christmas again!
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
The Gingerbread Man
The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffer
More Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Jill Tomlinson
Anne of the Island LM Montgomery
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
The Secret Countess Eva Ibbotson
Unseen Academicals Terry Pratchett
Ghosts Who Went to School Judith Spearing
Peter?s Room Antonia Forest
I Love You, Blue Kangaroo series Emma Chichester Clarke
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
Alone in Berlin Hans Fallada
A Midsummer Night?s Dream William Shakespeare
Run Away Home Antonia Forest
Persuasion Jane Austen
Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
Mortimer?s Tie Joan Aiken
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Vegetable Glue Susan Chandler and Elena Odriozola
The Little Grey Men BB
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Death on the Nile Agatha Christie
Market Square AA Milne
Guards, Guards Terry Pratchett
The Painted Garden Noel Streatfeild
William the Pirate Richmal Crompton

We are here!

How do you DO that, Moomin?! You are amazing ...

Heading over to new thread NOW.