AIBU Books Game Part Six

[MoominMymbleandMy]

Now, we're on thread number six!

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 think I'm seeing a ghost?

Is she a schoolfriend who's good at making things up, Moomin?

...Still, at least the rest of our gang have helped us out, and hiding in this church isn't too bad. My brothers will worry, though...

...Yes indeed, Pogle, the Indian gentleman next door restored her fortune and they've gone to stay at the seaside, so I can't even see her out of the window any more.

And,yes, Treacle, she was very good at making up stories so life is very dull without her. Lavinia always has her nose in a book, Lottie just gets naughtier and Miss Minchin smells very peculiar and falls asleep at odd times. I think she may have taken to drink. And, of course a lot of pupils were taken away after their families heard about Sara...

No ideas here so MCP again!

Talk about from a famine to a feast ... I can't keep up now!

Moomin, you are scary - how can you possibly remember so much detail?

I can't resist a tease. The new girl's quite pretty but she's quite cocky too and I just want to pull those pigtails ...

Because I am sad and have no life! Actually, it's because Wishing For Tomorrow was an Easter present for DD and I couldn't resist thought I ought to read it too. After all, you can't tell with some of these 'sequels' to old favourites.

Has the new girl got red hair? If so, I think you'll find she's got a temper to match and you are going to be very sorry for a long time, CJ.

Still NIMCP!

Doh! I did read Wishing For Tomorrow,got it out of the library,but it was A Little Princess which I'd never read - now I've read both my brain has obviously filed them as one book!

MCP...

What? There's a sequel to A Little Princess? As in a fakey-wakey 'Pemberley' kind of thing? It's so long since I've read ALP - DD's not old enough yet, so I'm obviously out of the loop. I remember reading it illegally when my light was supposed to be out, getting to the bit about 'the late Captain Crewe', bawling my eyes out and having to go downstairs and find my mum for consolation. She managed not to say 'if you'd only put the light out when I told you to ...'

Yes, I'm the world's most famous redhead, Anne-with-an-e. Sorry, I'm quite enjoying revisiting all the classics!

I must have been a much harder-hearted child than you, CJ, because I don't remember howling over Captain Crewe. DD did though. Buckets!

It's by Hilary McKay (who wrote Saffy's Angel) and DD and I enjoyed it a lot. Whereas the 'sequel' someone wrote to The Secret Garden a few years ago went straight on the Oxfam pile. Thinking back, that was actually too good a fate for it.

Back to stumped mode here. MCP all!

AIBU to be sick of winter?

Did any of you ever read Emma Tennant's Pemberley? God it was dire. Felt very lucky I'd just got it out the library and not spent real money on it [tight Scot emoticon]

Moomin, if we're back in children's classics, has the old Indian been to warn you about the forty-ninth winter?

AIBU to make my children have a playroom at the bottom of the garden so they don't mess up the house?

Moomin, is it never Christmas? Or are you a pioneer? (I always go for the obvious ones ...)

Pol, I couldn't bring myself to read Pemberley. Just couldn't do it. Glad I didn't now!

AWBU to lie to our father?

Pol,that sounds entirely reasonable and I may adopt the idea myself (WIBU to force DH to decamp to the shed at the same time? )

However leaving RL aside,NIMCP all!

Wishing For Tomorrow is good,CJ - I'd recommend it too.The only book that made me cry as a child was the very end of The Once and Future King,and I was a teenager by then - my Mum actually came into my room to find out what on earth was wrong!

Before I take the DCs out:

AIBU to think my family is,well,dysfunctional?

....I'm getting a litle worried about them, TBH, I'm sure they're hiding something and/or someone in there....

Pogle, we have 3 daughters - DH swears he's getting the shed kitted out with an armchair, telly and beer fridge when they hit puberty. He says if he's really lucky, I'll be going through the menopause at the same time.....

Argh - am having trouble catching up with all of these! MCP!

...At least we've got Gone with the Wind to read while we're hiding out. And I've cut all my hair off, which I hated - I don't look like a greaser any more...

Pol, it sounds not only reasonable but delightful. But there's hardly room for a mouse (oops, sorry CJ, sore topic ) in my shed. Pity because we timed our DCs to hit puberty and toddler tantrums at the same time!

Do you think your DCs (the fictional ones) might be concealing an intriguing item of funniture in their shed/playroom?

And, no, I didn't think much of Pemberley either and Emma In Love was a horror!

Sorry, no prairies or magical wardrobes in mine and NIMCP all!

...It's so cold and dark and lonely. And I'm sick of these weird people...

Ooh, in the throng of perplexing AIBUS I spy one that's beginning to sound familar!

Treacle, I'd make the most of your interlude hiding out in the church, because life's going to get a lot more hectic back Outside.

Pol, sorry, furniture, not funniture.

Well done, Moomin! Yes, I did try to take it up to the house, but the naughty little minxes damaged it so much that it was fit for nothing better than the playroom!

Well, it could be the wrong item of furniture, Pol. The one I'm thinking of is a chair and is accompanied by a pixie with a very unfortunate name.

...I miss my family and friends too. There's only one of my old friends around and she's not what you'd call a comforting type...

MCP on the invitation, the dysfunctional family and lying to father!

No, you're absolutely right Moomin. DH and I are having trouble dealing with the pixie's name, though DD1 sees no problem with it, as she has never, of course, heard it before.

I'm lost again - but thoroughly enjoying this flurry of activity on the thread!

We don't want Father to know she's there ...

What, is he still called Chinky, Pol?! Mind you, I suppose if you start PCing Enid Blyton, you might not have a lot of book left.

So who's the "she", CJ? Mother?

And this thread has a wonderful capacity for reviving itself.

...And a lot of the weird people have moved in. They're eating their way through the jam store...

Hmmm.
Have you left your family and friends,Moomin,or have they left you?

MCP!

...It isn't really surprising that we have our problems,we are a very big family - not all full siblings either...

What makes you think your family are odd, Pogle?

Interesting CJ, is someone on the run?

...Well I had to say yes in the end, it was getting awkward what with us working together on this case and all. I just usually prefer my men a bit more...human.

Very intriguing, Elephants. It sounds a bit Discworld-ish but I can't think of a character who fits the bill.

Erm, Ivy Compton-Burnett maybe, Pogle? Heaps of dysfunctional families there.

...No one's left anyone but I can't talk to them. Or rather, I can talk to them but they don't know I'm here. And the weird people are taking the carpets to sleep in...

Well,I wouldn't say we were odd,Elephants.Different certainly.Gifted? Superior? Things are worse now that my Father has vanished...

So your man friend isn't entirely human? Mythical? Undead? (Is that a hint of an accent in your post,by the way?)

MCP,CJ and Moomin!