AIBU Books Game Part Seven

[CJCregg]

Hi all, here we are again ...

As always, everyone welcome to pile in with AIBU book synopses, as long as you bring ice cream or something equally tempting for when we're stuck.

To continue mine - I'm in charge but it's terribly difficult to keep control. I don't know how long I can keep their respect. I didn't ask to be in charge ...

Assuming Elephants has got me,it's The Little World of Don Camillo - Don Camillo is an Italian priest,he's in a constant state of argument with the local communist party,and the mayor Peppone - and he has conversations with the Christ on the crucifix in his church.It's set just after WW2.
And now I'm going to have to hunt on Ebay for a copy because I gave mine away and I want to read it now!

You are on a roll here,Elephants!
Night all!

They are wonderful books, Don Camillo is a great big man who loves being a priest, except when it means having to practise what he preaches (literally) and be merciful and forgiving to the people he dislikes. He's more keen to get into a ruck, but Christ often talks him down (although sometimes not before he's thrown a few punches). It's set in a little village in the Po valley in northern Italy.

You've described them much better than I did,Elephants.
I love Don Camillo in the same way that I love Grandfather,from Elizabeth Goudge's Torminster books,and Hilary from her Damerosehay series.

at you for having a copy !

never read those...tell me more! :)

Greetings! Even I can't say "Evening" at this time of night.

Hooray, Elephants, you found your way home again. Well, they say you never forget.

Whenever RL gets in the way of this thread I also find the ones I could have guessed have all been solved, and invariably return to be confronted with a batch that I haven't a chance of cracking.

The Little World of Don Camillo was on the radio recently and I loved it. I must look out for a copy.

You knocked my one on the head pretty smartly, Pogle. Have some Woolton Pie. You'll like it, I'm sure you will.

Oh, and yes, Elephants, I do like Monica Dickens and my favourite Betty MacDonald is Onions in the Stew. I had a 1960s paperback edition which disintegrated from being re-read too many times so I have a sturdy hardback instead now.

Where were we...oh yes, MCP and:

AIBU to take the DCs abroad?

Afternoon, all!

...They'll love Italy, won't they? And we do have to get away...

Aha,dessert!

Its a bit quiet,isn't it?

Elephants,do you know Elizabeth Goudge? She wrote,among many other things,The Little White Horse,mostly in the '40s and 50's I think.
She wrote several books set in a fictional cathedral city - Torminster,and another series about the Eliot family some of whom lived at Damerosehay.These have been aibu'd in earlier threads!
Not at all like Don Camillo,except that Grandfather and Hilary are like him in that they are both priests and genuinely good people.
And the books about the Eliot family,and The City of Bells,are some of my favorite books ever - not sure whether to be ashamed of that or not !

Hi Moomin - I've never read Onions in the Stew - what's that one about? (Or maybe you should AIBU it!)

I've never read any of those, Pogle, but I am reading the Little World of Don Camillo again, it is lovely. Which wouold you recommend?

...well, now he's cottoned on about the new bloke. What was he expecting, me to sneak back in through the fortifications? But now I've afraid he's going to do something desperate...

I want to read Don Camillo! Now!
I knew I should never have got rid of it - what was I thinking! And the library have let me down and don't have it

So are you a hostage,Elephants?(I'm having trouble not visualising this as a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail...not that that fits)
I would read the books about the Eliots - The Bird in the Tree,The Herb of Grace,and The Heart of the Family.(It's hard to recommend favorite books - what if you hate them?!)

Elephaaaaaaants ... I wouldn't worry, not many men - drippy or otherwise - are going to survive Troy. You might go down in history as a bit of a perfidious cow, though!

(Personally I don't blame you - always thought Troilus was a total drip .)

Oh no, do you think so CJ? You mean:
"Allas, of me, un-to the worldes ende,
Shal neither been y-writen nor y-songe
No good word, for thise bokes wol me shende.
O, rolled shal I been on many a tonge;
Through-out the world my belle shal be ronge;
And wommen most wol hate me of alle.
Allas, that swich a cas me sholde falle!"? Well, too late now!

Congratulations! I agree that Troilus is a whiny PITA. You win a prophesy of the future downfall of Troy (used).

Arr, I've just realised it's talk like a pirate day again (well it is in the time zone where me sister be havin' her lair, where they be several hours ahead an' it be her b'day!)

Thankin' ye all for the rations and paddlin' by on the raft with rum 'n' weevily biscuits...

hey,llandb!
I couldn't do talk like a pirate day last year,so I'm not even going to attempt it this year!

Elephants and CJ,are you both just terribly well educated,or is Troilus and Cressida leisure reading??
(I've wondered before whether you are all Eng Lit studying types!)

I'm terribly well-educated :o :o :o

Actually I was forced graciously permitted to study Chaucer, and I think I had to flick through Shakespeare's version as well at some point (was studying Eng Lit though, not that you would know ). It's actually a pretty good read if you get it in the modern English version (NOT so much if you have to spontaneously learn Ye Olde Englishe).

Yo ho, me hearties!

I think that was it Moomin - it was so miserable that you couldn't really laugh even when it was funny. Can you tell me a bit more about the programme?

AIBU to think that I'm unappreciated?

I missed part of it but her friends and family suspected the first husband was a control freak and went in for domestic violence. Which explains why she just left a note and ran off through the woods carrying a toddler and a baby.

Most of the programme was about what a small and passionate band Betty MacDonald readers are. I think we're supposed to give each other knowing smiles when we meet someone clutching a BMacD.

So why are you unappreciated, Elephants? MCP!

...I'm so afraid he might get into the house. We'll be safer in Italy and les enfants will love it...

Well,we appreciate you,Elephants!

MCP,both of you!

:o Pogle

to Moomin.

...well my DH and DC don't appreciate the years of loving care I've given them for a start...

I have a great feeling of doubt that your Italian trip is going to do as well as you think, Moomin, but have no idea who you are...

...no gourds round here, my favourite metaphor is more entomological...

Beetles.Beetles? No,doesn't help..

MCP!

Be careful with the parrot too,Moomin - a parrot on the shoulder can do a lot of damage..

Different kind of insect Pogle. :)

...I really think it's time I started living my own life, perhaps a job would help, something glamorous...

...Nooo! Don't say you're on his side too. He turns everyone against me. Even poor little Jemima doesn't realise what he's really like...

Umm, beetles aren't helping me either. MCP, Elephants!

And thank 'ee kindly for the ice pack an' lil fancies, Elephants.