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 ...

Chocolate....splendid,just what I need!

Hmmm.And what did he know too much about? A crime?

By the way,now you've got me into Patrick O'Brian can I tempt you with Dorothy Dunnett?

Well done Moomin - hey you can have the mop AND I'll throw in a ewer because I had no idea what one was when I first read CCF and thought it was some kind of crazy device. :)

Yours sounds so familiar! Is he in danger, this nice chap?

:o at "Pointless is much too young".

You could turn the mop into a kind of lamb doll for company.

'Natch, you can tempt me, Pogle. Tell me a title (in print, hopefully) and I will go hunting in the library/bookshop.

Don't they have ewers in your piratical land of birth then, Elephants?

Liddle mop plus fancily named jug plus oily lamb means bathtime!

...His friend found out what was in the cellar! That's why he had to go. And if the lodger finds out they'll get rid of him too. But he got me a new dress...

Not really, no :o

good luck with bathtime - maybe lay off the Original Source Mint stuff...

Ooh, a mysterious cellar? No clue what's going in but it sounds exciting. Are you a little girl?

AIBU to have fallen in love with a beautiful stranger?

Only if he's some else's husband, Elephants.........

I will have you know that she is a lady, Poledra! I have never really noticed the nice country girls around here, but she is quite different...

Has she any sisters, Elephants?

Sadly no, she is an only child, but her mother has recently remarried. She is very charming, if not terribly interested in natural history, which is a bit of a pity

I rather assumed there was a body in the cellar,but perhaps I am being unduly gloomy...!

And I am wondering if you are expecting your lady-friend to be interested in newts,Elephants?

MCP!

Moomin,The Game of Kings is the first book in the Lymond series. Just don't tell me if you don't like them,I'm not sure that I could bear it

ooh Pogle my dad is always on at me to read those - is that the one in some very old scottish castles?

Mind gone blank WRT newts specifically .

...Anyhow, she seems very friendly and I already know her new step-family very well...

Read them,they are wonderful!
Yes,the series starts in Scotland,then there is more Scotland,and England,and Russia,and France,and Constantinople.And Malta...set in the Tudor period.

Really like the namechange,BTW

I have taken mental note of the title, Pogle, and I'm hoping I shall love it almost as much as Aubrey and Maturin.

Is it that time of year already, Elephants/EvilAnts?! Are we doing spooky AIBUs again?

MCP on the not-newt fancier!

...I'm not little! And there isn't a body in the cellar, just a load of Pictclobbers...

:o at werelamb costume. Not sure how spoooky "baaa" can sound, but maybe with fangs it would? Pointless would look cute petrifying in a cape.

Oh,bless,he'll look sweet as a werelamb...and with fangs!

So despite the fact that you are not little,Moomin,the lodger has been reading to you in bed,and buying you clothes? ok.

I'm really hoping that you will morph into Pogleswooooo :)

Still baffled by your hero who isn't Gussie Fink-Nottle, EvilAnts/Elephants. MCP!

...He didn't buy me the dress. He got a friend to make it for me and it is so naffy! Blue merino! I even washed before putting it on! And 10 isn't little, not round here...

Veeeery nice Moomin & Cat :o

I think you're a cockney sparra but no idea on book/plot etc...

Just looked up Gussie - I'm definitely not him!

...I'm a bit worried that she might prefer my elder brother - he's the one who's good with words. But of course there's no chance of that, with his secret...

It's all gone spookily quiet again here,hasn't it?

Yet another book I haven't read,Moomin - it makes me wonder what I was reading in my youth,given that I was reading all the time!
You are dealing with black hearts in Battersea,aren't you?

Thanks for the name change idea,Ants - I've never namechanged before!

Oh, is it that one? I think that's the one I haven't read, dammit.

While we're here - whatever happened to Bonnie and was it Sylvia, the Willoughby Chase girls?

Love the name change by the way!! Very creepy :o

I can never think of seasonal namechanges, dammit!

Didn't the Willoughby Chase girl's parents come home and adopt the other one, or some such? Can't wait for DD to get to those books.

AIBU to think I'm special?

Do you think you're the son of God, CJ? :o

Nice to see you back!

Think you might be right, have lent the book to someone and can't check.

CJDead?
CJsHead?
CJRottenEgg?
CJSeveredLeg?

How about this one ?

No, I'm not the son of God. But I was born into a very noble house, and I believe God talks to me.

So, you're not the Son of God, you're just a very naughty boy?

Sorry, couldn't resist. MCP!

I don't usually namechange, but feel I really don't have to for halloween - after all, I am a sorceress who is also a wolf and an owl, and I am over 5 thousand years old - what can possibly be more occult than that??