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?

Oooh can I have some ice-cream too? I am trying to do a job application and not getting very far, confidence draining fast...

...Well perhaps not tricking exactly, but helping someone else to run off with his stuff...

Erm, it is Villette, Pol!

Although I haven't actually finished it yet, have been a bit sidetracked by Ngaio Marsh...

Elephants, don't you like your DH? Are you planning to leave him?

I want some ice-cream! Is there any mint choc chip?

Woohoo!! Inadvertent identification of Treacle's book!!

Must go reread it as I clearly have got myself all confused about what actually happens and how they are all related to each other

Got any butterscotch?

...He's a big bully, and it's more that I'm planning for him to leave me, in quite a sudden manner.

Hi all!
Is he going to be leaving you,(and perhaps the world?)permanently,Elephants?

Anything else still going?

I believe so, Pogle! Pride comes before a fall, I always say. But first to help this little scamp, I've taken quite a shine to him.

Evening, all!

I have no idea what anyone is talking about

AIBU to wish I wasn't under such pressure? I didn't ask for this job ...

Hello All! Any raspberry ice-cream on this raft?

Cor, what happens when thread fills up if Moomin' isn't back in time to fix it? Who's done it before?

CJ have you just been magically transported?

MCP!

Does your workplace being Unseen add to your problems, CJ?

Dear me, llandb, we're nearly out!

Gasp! At least if the raft plunges into the black hole, we'll get to enjoy our ice-cream veery slooowlllll....

Um, right, who wants honour of starting new thread? Should it be whoever has been here longest and is still here? Who's that, then?

Am pretty rubbish at lists. But if nobody else is desperate for the the job, I'll have a little time to have a crack at it over the weekend. (To eventually be posted in new thread, wot will be started by someone else ). Though I reckon leave off list of books until Moomin gets back as she'll have done it already.

What do you all think?

Oh and MCP!

Good plan, llandb - was wondering about this myself

Who wants to start the new thread? I would but I've never started a thread before and I think I might get it wrong

Elephants, yours is ringing a bell but I just can't think... is this scamp you're planning on helping human?

I'm happy to start a new one (if Moomin hasn't come back by then). Will not, however, be able to produce any lists of Wot Has already Been AIBU'd. That dubious pleasure is all Moomin's

MCP please - and MIC! (More Ice-Cream)

Wow,nearly thread 7!
Aren't you all efficient - the icecream must be having a beneficial effect!

Was going to say MIC,but it is all a bit wet and gloomy again here this morning

The thing about doing the "what has been AIBU'd" list is that you do actually have to recognise them all,don't you! And Moomin does it so well!

Hi all! Must get arse into gear for new thread. Going to make a list of my own of new AIBUs to do so I don't end up casting desperately around and doing the same ones but from a different angle!

There was no magic transport, and I'm not Unseen ... there was a journey, though, and it went a bit wrong. And now I am in charge ...

(I made that ice cream with DD on Tuesday - God, it is good. Death to my diet, though

PS happy to start a new thread but I think - and honestly, this is not copping out - that we should leave the books list to Moomin because I have a feeling she makes notes as she goes along ...

MCP/MICP

Making a list of new AIBUs is a very good idea,CJ,a bit of thinking ahead and perhaps planning the next few months reading with AIBU Books in mind would make life much less stressful!

Alternatively we have been on this thread a tad too long.....no,that can't be right!

Oh,and I was going to ask if anyone thinks we should move out of AIBU??

Yay to whoever starts new thread, as long as it' not me.

When do we know when this one runs out? Think it's a limit of 1000 posts?

So whoever posts the 1000th post HAS to link to the new thread, especially if it moves out of AIBU

Have no opinion as to where it should go as long as there is room for raft of NIMCP and ice-cream.

Hmm, yes, someone non-Moomin might have fun compiling the list: 'so, x, what was yours from post y, in which the meerkats took over the world using cunningly-designed desert rafts and ice-cream?'

Sunnier here this afternoon, so: MIP! Oh and MCP!

Depends where we go - if we move to Chat, the threads will disappear after 90 days, so I think that's a non-starter.

We could go to Adult Fiction, as long as everyone realises you can still do children's books

I was thinking Adult Fiction,it was just a passing thought really ,and I don't feel that strongly about it.
Definitely not Chat...

And nursery rhymes and fairy tales and musicals and pomes and and and....

Oh dear,that was a totally pointless pair of posts,wasn't it!(mine,I mean!) Sadly I am the world's worst at "what would you like to do?" "don't mind,what would you like to do?" "well,whatever you prefer.." "no,no - I'm not bothered - if you'd rather do X" type conversations !

Now I'm thinking a bit more I quite like us being an disguised thread,like a mole,hidden in the turbulant waters of AIBU (a drowning mole,obviously ).

and cook dinner,and cook dinner...

Have started a new thread HERE.

We were almost out of posting space so I thought I'd just do it. Have put it in AIBU again in case Moomin has trouble finding us - though I'm sure the smell of the coffee and ice cream will lure her our way pretty quickly

And finally - THE LIST!

This Little Piggy Went to Market
Peter?s Room Antonia Forest
Tom?s Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell
The Yiddish Policeman?s Union Michael Chabon
Why I Live at the Post Office Eudora Welty
Tennis Shoes Noel Streatfeild
Nation Terry Pratchett
Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?
Like Ali Smith
Busman?s Honeyman Dorothy L Sayers
The House on the Strand Daphne du Maurier
Aubrey/Maturin series Patrick O?Brian
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
Friday?s Child Georgette heyer
The Morning Gift Eva Ibbotson
The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham
The Wouldbegoods E Nesbit
The Secret World of Polly Flint Helen Cresswell
The Crimson Petal and the White Michel Faber
The Bird in the Tree Elizabeth Goudge
Slinky Malinki, Open the Door Lynley Dodd
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
Six Dinner Sid Inga Moore
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
The Children?s Book AS Byatt
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman
Midnight is a Place Joan Aiken
Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild
Harry Potter series JK Rowling
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day Winifred Watson
Tales of the 1001 Nights
The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkein
Macbeth William Shakespeare
The Great Hamster Massacre Katie Davies
The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Bianco
Bedknob and Broomstick Mary Norton
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
The Diplomat?s Wife Pam Jenoff
A History of the World in 9 ½ Chapters Julian Barnes
Rapunzel
A Company of Swans Eva Ibbotson
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
On The Beach Nevil Shute
Stalky and Co Rudyard Kipling
The Southern Vampire Mysteries Series Charlotte Harris
Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
Coming Home Rosamunde Pilcher
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare
The Rector?s Wife Joanna Trollope
The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory
The Aunt and the Sluggard PG Wodehouse
The House of Many Ways Diana Wynne Jones
The Flight of the Heron DK Broster
Midnight is a Place Joan Aiken
The Dean?s Watch Elizabeth Goudge
High Fidelity Nick Hornby
One Day David Nicholls
A Twist of Gold Michael Morpurgo
The Little Friend Donna Tartt
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
I Am Legend Richard Mathieson
Frog Went A-Courting
The Borrowers Mary Norton
The Help Kathryn Stockett
Adrian Mole series Sue Townsend
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
101 Dalmatians Dodie Smith
Persuasion Jane Austen
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban JK Rowling
Wishing for Tomorrow Hilary McKay
Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
The Outsiders SE Hinton
Adventures of the Wishing Chair Enid Blyton
The Fourth Bear Jasper Fforde
Seven Little Australians Ethel Turner
Moominland Midwinter Tove Jansson
Sredni Vashtar Saki
The Chronicles of Amber Roger Zelazny
Josephine Maria Gripe
Charmed Life, or The Princess and the Lift-Man E Nesbit
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Dogsbody Diana Wynne-Jones
Caddy Ever After Hilary McKay
The Horse and his Boy CS Lewis
The Fallen Idol/The Basement Room Graham Greene
Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters
Addition Toni Jordan
The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield
The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher Beatrix Potter
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
The Other Queen Philippa Gregory
Miss Buncle?s Book DE Stevenson
Historium Regum Britanniae Geoffrey of Monmouth
Something Rotten Jasper Fforde
Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
Das Boot Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkein
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
If The Dead Rise Not Philip Kerr
Lords and Ladies Terry Pratchett
Falconer?s Lure Antonia Forest
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
The Loving Spirit Daphne du Maurier
Peter Pan JM Barrie
The Better Mousetrap Tom Holt
Danny, Champion of the World Roald Dahl
A Hatful of Sky Terry Pratchett
Villette Charlotte Bronte