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Gaudy Night
Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers
Back at Oxford for her reunion, Harriet Vane, Lord Peters beloved, finds herself in mortal danger [Description] Since she graduated from Oxfords Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a timely intervention from the debonair Lord Peter Wimsey to save her from the gallows, and since then she has devoted her spare time to resisting his attempts to marry her. Putting aside her lingering shame from the trial, Harriet returns to Oxford for her college reunion with her head held highonly to find that her life is in danger once again. The first poison-pen letter calls her a dirty murderess, and those that follow are no kinder. As the threats become more frightening, she calls on Lord Peter for help. Among the dons of Oxford lurks a killer, but it will take more than a superior education to match Lord Peter and the daring Harriet. Gaudy Night is the 12th book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.
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ImperfectCJ
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I couldn't limit myself to just three favorites! There were a few books in the list I hadn't read, but I'd read others by the authors (I didn't count them, nor did I count movies).

Thanks for the tag, @dabbe ! #TLT #ThreeListThursday

dabbe #woohooyou! The only one I've read of your choices is REBECCA. Got the others now on the TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🖤🎃🖤 3w
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BarbaraJean
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I‘ve heard so many people say that Gaudy Night is the best of the Lord Peter Wimsey books. And now I see why.

When Harriet Vane returns to Oxford for a reunion, she is drawn into a poison-pen mystery at her alma mater. That‘s the essence of the plot, but the mystery and the Oxfordian context ends up serving as a vehicle for Harriet‘s own growth as she confronts her own avoidance of the past. ⬇️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) I LOVED seeing Harriet‘s sleuthing skills, as well as her wit, along with the deep character growth Sayers pulls off here, both for Harriet and Lord Peter. Five stars, and now I‘m nervous to read the last book in the series, because how can it measure up?!? 7mo
BarbaraJean Also: I‘ve never before been so anxious and distraught over a chess set. 7mo
Ruthiella Awesome review! I would love to reread these books. It‘s been so long since I first encountered them. 7mo
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willaful The beautiful beautiful chess set! 😭 7mo
BarbaraJean @willaful As SOON as he bought it for her I started worrying about it 😭😭😭 7mo
BarbaraJean @Ruthiella I‘m already looking forward to rereading them!! 7mo
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BarbaraJean
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I enjoy coming across and learning new-to-me words, especially when they‘re as cozy and tasty as this one. Although I also have to admit: at first I read that it was “made with oatmeal and madness,” which would be a very different kind of dark gingerbread indeed.

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ImperfectCJ
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This novel's several storylines unfold in a very roundabout and mannerly way, which is both satisfying and annoying to me. I like the way Sayers tells a story, and I really like the look at Nazi philosophy from a 1930s British perspective, although it's alarming how much of the philosophy is thriving in the US today. I'd forgotten that a big part of it was a backlash against feminism and women having intellectual lives outside the home.

ImperfectCJ And I also have to say that the love story just about brings me to tears. 12mo
Faranae Less well-known is the backlash against queer freedom, as well! The famous first book burning by Nazis in 1933 was the entire library of the Berlin Institute of Sexology, which researched, treated, and agitated for LGBTQI+ folks. The loss of the thousands of volumes of research set back queer rights and trans medical advances by decades, and those books were not among those included in anti-Nazi restoration efforts. 12mo
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ImperfectCJ
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Not much time for reading during the past several days, but we've dropped the elder kid back off at college and the younger goes back to school tomorrow (but I still have one day off), so I hope to get started on the tagged tonight or tomorrow.

Pic: A ring around the sun on the way home from college drop-off.

CogsOfEncouragement I really enjoyed this series. 12mo
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willaful
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Lol, I missed the “Sweater“ challenge and this has a boring edition that would have been perfect. But I'd rather use it for #NatChessDay anyway. Think of chess and I think of this fantastic mystery and romance, and shed a small tear.

“I loved them, and you gave them to me.“

#AutumnPlease #Scarathlon #PhotoChallenge #TeamMischiefAndMayhem

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Sapphire
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“Placetne, magistra?” “Placet.” The final line is exactly how I feel about this book. The first half was a slog that took me months, but once it got moving I was hooked. Charming, erudite, insightful, human vulnerability explored intimately. #192025

Librarybelle Lovely review! 2y
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Sapphire
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The Bodleian library has appeared in enough of my recent reading to make wish that I could somehow someday visit it. But this cheek made me smile.

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Sapphire
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A weekly book report: I will probably finish Fresh Water for flowers (audio) this week. 2 paper books, so different from each other but both calling my name from the TBR, gaudy night I have been reading (digital) in bits and starts forever but it‘s good. 4 books, 2 challenges. #auldlangspine #192025

CBee I hope you‘re enjoying 😊 2y
Sapphire @CBee Fresh water for flowers is amazing and I have six hours left but so many thoughts. I have barely started vital phenomena but the Chechnyan war is already interesting. I usually only have 1 book in each format google at a time unless one paper book is for study. 2y
Librarybelle Nice!! 2y
CBee @Sapphire oh, I‘m so glad to hear that! I‘m considering doing a reread of Fresh Water soon actually. And Constellation did seem to start out a little slow but it picks up and I definitely learned a lot about the Chechnyan war - and the characters will stay with you ♥️ 2y
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Sapphire
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if the love of learning for its own sake is a lost cause everywhere else in the world, let us see to it that here at least, it finds its abiding home.

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Sapphire
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If anything came between her and the service of truth, she would walk over it without rancour and without pity—even if it were her own reputation.

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Sapphire
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The fact that one had loved and sinned and suffered and escaped death was of far less ultimate moment than a single footnote in a dim academic journal establishing the priority of a manuscript or restoring a lost iota subscript.

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kwmg40
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I marked off 5 more years in the #192025 challenge in September.

Thanks, @Librarybelle , for hosting this challenge. It‘s certainly adding more variety to my reading!

Librarybelle Yay! And a great span of decades represented in your graphic! 2y
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kwmg40
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During our vacation, we toured the Oxford colleges, including Somerville, Dorothy Sayer‘s alma mater.

That motivated me to read Gaudy Night, which describes really well the experiences of the college women at that time.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#192025 #1935 @Librarybelle

BarbaraBB Such a great trip! 2y
batsy Oh, fun! I love Gaudy Night. 2y
Librarybelle Oh! Sounds like a fantastic trip! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
kwmg40 @BarbaraBB @batsy @Librarybelle @TheAromaofBooks Thank you! Oxford is great for book lovers. There are literary references everywhere. A Thames cruise was even more exciting because the boat was named “Pantalaimon“ (from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials)! 2y
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katasaurus
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A brilliant woman writing about brilliant women at Oxford in the pre-WWII period. I‘m rereading this (via audiobook, anyway) and loving it. I‘d forgotten that the first half (at least) is entirely from Harriet‘s point of view. It‘s a refreshing change - we get a little deeper into her head than we do Wimsey‘s.

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BookmarkTavern
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“It‘s elementary, my dear Watson.” 🔎

1. Gotta go with the classics here, Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot.
2. I like to be surprised. But my absolute favorite is when I guess part of the solution correctly.
3. Never read Sayers before!

#SundayFunday Have a fantastic day and remember to tag me!

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Verity
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I‘ve been awol for a while. It‘s been a bit like that this year hasn‘t it? I‘ve basically spent the last four months listening to Gaudy Night on repeat. With a side order of Amelia Peabody and Inspector Alleyn, but mostly Gaudy Night. I wrote a whole thing about it on my blog, but basically my brain has decided that listening to Peter and Harriet work things out is about all it can cope with right now and I‘m sort of at peace with that.

LiteraryinPA Hey, whatever gets you through the day. 💗 Comfort reads are important. 3y
Verity @LiteraryinLawrence they really are 3y
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AmandaBorchers
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Wow this book was such a treat. It had the feel of a Victorian novel but with a great little mystery. After listening to The Literary Life podcast episode on this book, I realized a lot of the literary references went over my head but the story was still enjoyable. A great comfy cozy October read!

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I started this thinking that I was going to get an old fashioned mystery, but there is so much more in the pages of this book if you are willing to look for it. I loved it. 📕

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Verity
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As part of my attempt to deal with my Bad Week last week I treated myself to the audiobook of Gaudy Night. It‘s been ages since I read this - I have the radio play which is (obviously) abridged - and I had forgotten how much wonderful character development there is in this. I‘ve ended up listening to it and reading it as well. I‘m about an hour from the end of the audiobook, but I‘ve already finished re-reading.

wanderinglynn I hope this week is going better for you! 💜 3y
Verity @wanderinglynn so far it is an improvement thank you. 🤞🤞 (edited) 3y
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TK-421 As an avid tea drinker, I agree! ✨☕️ 4y
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PickwickPlockPlock
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Gaudy Night is called Sayer's best novel, and I can see why. It feels surprisingly modern and lands unexpected emotional punches. Harriet goes back to Oxford to help her college. It's as much about women's education and their place in society as about Harriet's complicated relationship (or lack thereof) with Peter Wimsey. My edition has a picture of Edward Petherbridge on the back. I found his version on youtube and he's a really great Wimsey.

charl08 The actor is too weedy for me! I do love this book though. 5y
PickwickPlockPlock @charl08 I picture Wimsey looking kind of like Leslie Howard. 5y
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erzascarletbookgasm
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#NamasteNovember
This #purplecover book I have yet to read.

veritysalter Have you listened to the Shedunnit podcast? They discuss all the British Golden Age crime writers, with especial focus on Sayers and Christie. They are an interesting group, who went on to become The Detection Club. 5y
erzascarletbookgasm @veritysalter I did not know about this. I love AC and the Golden Age crime authors, will look it up! Thanks 🤗 5y
batsy Cool edition! 💜 5y
Eggs ❤️💜👏🏻💜❤️ 5y
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Susanita
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Lukewarm pick. Interesting plot but far too much banter, bickering, ruminating, etc. Anyway, it knocks off prompts for a couple reading challenges.

#Booked2019 #nightoriented not just because of the title but also because much of the mischief occurs at night.

#MMD for a book published before I was born. It was probably quite modern at the time...

Cinfhen I love a #DoubleDip 🍦🍦 5y
shanaqui I think Gaudy Night might work significantly better if you've actually read the series leading up to it, or at least Strong Poison and Have His Carcase. It's really not typical of the series in many ways, but relies heavily on the investment in the characters for the emotional part of the plot. 5y
Susanita @shanaqui I was thinking that too as I got further into the book. 5y
shanaqui @Susanita For fans of the series it's the most awesome payoff, but why should you care if you don't know the background, after all! 5y
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Susanita
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All too soon it will be cold and dark when I want to sit outside and enjoy my #favoritereadingspot and a beverage, so I‘m taking advantage of the sunshine now. #selfimprovementsept

CogsOfEncouragement Great read! 5y
OriginalCyn620 Nice! 😊 5y
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Pam.Kokomo
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My copy has seen better days! The more I read Dorothy Sayers, the more I love her. These aren‘t your run-of-the-mill mysteries. Gaudy Night gives you so much to think about that a reread would undoubtedly be worthwhile.

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Emilymdxn
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I might be an idiot for being surprised there wasn‘t a murder in this 😂 other than that, I really enjoyed the oxford nostalgia and Harriet Vane, and I would read more Dorothy Sayers, but I found the pacing a bit slow because there weren‘t any bodies, and the conclusion was quite unsatisfying for me.

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Emilymdxn
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Guys Spain is incredible! The #bookfitnesschallenge hasn‘t been at the front of my mind tbh I haven‘t done loads of reading - I was taken by surprise by an enormous festival involving burning enormous wooden effigies and being sprayed with water by firefighters until 5am but not complaining! I‘ll be less distracted once I‘m back in the uk

How we doing @Trashcanman @TheEllieMo @RachelO @cewilf @cobwebmoth @KathyWheeler @Megabooks @wanderinglynn

Freespirit Oooh I loved Spain too....so much history ,art, architecture ❤️❤️ 5y
cewilf Wonderful! I‘ve never been, but my students took a trip there this past school year. Enjoy yourself!! The week is off to a strong start for me 💪 5y
cobwebmoth Enjoy your trip! 5y
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KathyWheeler Have fun! I‘ve always wanted to go there. 5y
wanderinglynn Have a fabulous time! 5y
Megabooks Enjoy!! I‘ve been doing a lot of walking and reading. 👍🏻 5y
Trashcanman Enjoy your time and day 😊 5y
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Emilymdxn
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Welllll. First minor setback #bookfitnesschallenge is that my flight yesterday was delayed 24 hours and I‘m still in England, will spend most of today travelling unable to do any walking at all 😐 I anticipate spending most of today sat down angrily with a book. Bright sides tho - British airways have paid for my breakfast and at least I have a book! Having a healthy breakfast so I‘ll call that fitness progress even if it isn‘t one of my goals.

rockpools How frustrating! Where are you off to? And yes, extra progress on the reading goals 😉. Hope it‘s all sorted relatively smoothly. Have a good journey. 5y
TheEllieMo Adaptable goals in action right there! 5y
Megabooks There you go! Sorry about the delay, but I‘m glad you‘re able to get in some reading. Told you I stayed up late 😉 it‘s 3:30 am here! 5y
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squirrelbrain Ugh, were you flying out of Manchester then? At least you weren‘t on that Jet2 flight that got turned back to Stansted and was escorted in by fighter jets! 😬 5y
Emilymdxn @squirrelbrain @megabooks @TheEllieMo @RachelO Gatwick 😞 I didn‘t even know anything had happened in Manchester. Off to Spain with my bf‘s family for a few days (hopefully) 5y
KathyWheeler I hate that your flight is delayed but you‘ve got a book, so that‘s good. And having a healthy breakfast is definitely a good thing! 5y
marleed I love a challenge where the goals change to match the day rather than the other way around! Enjoy your trip - and the journey! 5y
wanderinglynn Sorry your flight was delayed. But a free breakfast is good and there is always reading. I hope the rest of your trip is awesome (but uneventful). Adapt your goals as needed to compensate the life happening! 💜 5y
krayoncolorz Sorry to hear about your flight delay! That is frustrating. Enjoy the book and breakfast though! 5y
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BookaholicNatty
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Book #2 in the Must Read mystery blog from Modern Mrs Darcy. This is another Lord Peter Wimsey mystery that takes place at Oxford University. When Harriet Vane, Alma Mater, is incited back to college to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations someone starts to send poison pen letters and performing other malicious acts toward her. She calls in Lord Peter Wimsey to help her figure out what‘s going on. These are also a tv series!

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bookandbedandtea
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First, I half adore this ugly old cover and half want to replace the whole lot with new elegant covers.
Sayers' writing style delights me so I may regret reading this as I now have a powerful urge to reread the whole series- which won't do anything for my TBR pile. I enjoy this book not so much for the mystery as for the location, the dialogue, the social commentary, and the characters.

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Swoon. I can't deny that I have a bit of a #litcrush on Lord Peter.

jillrhudy Who doesn‘t? 6y
bookandbedandtea @jillrhudy Right? Well educated, well dressed, and well monied plus self aware and civic minded with a social conscience? What's not to like? 😉😁 6y
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bookandbedandtea
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Reading has been such a struggle for me these last few months that, rather than fight with myself, I've decided to revisit an old friend. Harriet and Lord Peter are one of my favorite literary couples and, of the books that focus on them, this is the one I like best. (Not sure why some of them show up twice in my kindle library 🤔) #amreading #finally

wanderinglynn I feel your pain. I‘ve been struggling with a major reading slump too. I‘m slowly coming out of it, but now I feel like I‘m way behind on all my reading goals. 😕 6y
bookandbedandtea @wanderinglynn My not-so-new job gives me so little time to read that when I do have some time on the weekends I find myself flailing and dithering. Which REALLY isn't like me when it comes to reading but that's where I find myself right now. It's frustrating! 6y
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cathysaid
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I forget who turned me on to this site...but thank you and I hate you 😬

I‘ve only read three so I‘ve got some reading to do!

https://crimereads.com/the-7-creepiest-manor-houses-in-mystery/

#mystery #crime

gradcat Ooh! I‘m in! I hope I won‘t be sorry 😂😂😂 6y
SailorMoon OooMG I wanna read this too!!! 6y
AlaMich This is great! Thanks for sharing! 😊 6y
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cathysaid @AlaMich @gradcat @SailorMoon Right?!?! The website is dangerous for my TBR...and my wallet. 😣 6y
SailorMoon BTW if you love the subject (and you are brave af!!!) you should watch the first season of American Horror Story and The Haunting Of Hill House. Both are tv series that take place in haunted mansions, and they are REALLY good!!! 6y
cathysaid @Sailormoon I do like AHS (what does that say about me?!?) but there are at least two seasons even I couldn‘t stomach. And I had forgotten The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix! I feel a day of binge watching and knitting coming on... 🧶 6y
SailorMoon I also love AHS so... no judgment here LOL 🤣 I couldn't bare the CULT season, I was too scared but managed to finish watching it. I couldn'r finish ROANOKE though, when it got to cannibalism was a little too much for me to handle! The one I loved the most was ASYLUM. OMG it was sooo good! And HOTEL too. We'll end up talking for hours about the subject if you just give me a little rope........... 🤣 6y
SailorMoon Do watch Hill House, it's AMAZING. I couldn't stop watching! I finished it in a day and a half!!! 6y
batsy I try not to look at this site though I love it... My TBR explodes. 6y
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brandymuses
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💗”Placetne, magistra?” “Placet.” 😭😍
2/14 Valentine‘s = new book+treat day in our house
💏 Tazwell (That is for reals his name. My in-laws were weird.)
😊 I can handle sad if it‘s well written, but I don‘t go looking for them.
📚Peter from tagged book, Gen from Queen‘s Thief, Parsons from Earth Bound...I have a Type™️.

#frideas

SailorMoon Thanks for playing!!! 💕🌙 and yes, such peculiar and interesting in-laws 🤣 6y
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saresmoore
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I adored this. It was my first Sayers and I think I read the perfect one because, although it centered on mysterious happenings, it wasn‘t so much about the mystery. Set in a (mostly) fictional women‘s college at Oxford, the story and characters manage to deal with so many important topics (feminism, education, gender roles, love) in unexpected ways. The love story woven throughout was a delight & Sayers‘ writing style is beautiful. Absolute pick!

Lynnsoprano My favorite of Sayers‘ novels. Now you need to read Busman‘s Honeymoon. 6y
saresmoore I‘m counting this for the Female Detective prompt in #Booked2019—Harriet Vane did easily as much detective work as Lord Peter Wimsey in this one! @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage 6y
saresmoore @Lynnsoprano Ooh, will do! 6y
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saresmoore @Moray_Reads I also read this for the #MMDChallenge, “a book recommended by someone with great taste”—that‘s you, Moray! And I‘m reading about fifteen books this year that you‘ve recommended. 😁 You‘ve yet to steer me wrong, my friend! 6y
erzascarletbookgasm I keep thinking I have to read the series in order. I‘ve read the first three and I‘ve heard this is her best in the series! 6y
saresmoore @erzascarletbookgasm I really think it stood alone on its own merits. I felt like I got a good understanding of the history, even though it wasn‘t explicit. 6y
Cinfhen Congrats on another prompt completed 💪🏼🤓 6y
batsy @erzascarletbookgasm I haven't read the Wimsey series in order, and I would like to go back to the beginning and read them all. But it's a real treat to read the Wimsey and Vane books in order; and only four with the two of them 😊 6y
batsy So glad you enjoyed this. It's one of my favourites. 6y
Moray_Reads @saresmoore I'm honoured to be your pick for the prompt but it's the book that deserves the credit really. Glad you liked it. I recommend Murder Must Advertise, it's Peter-based and there's no Harriet but it's very funny. Probably my favourite after this one! 6y
catebutler I just read and loved it!! Sayers is such a clever and fun author! So happy you enjoyed this one!! 6y
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Lynnsoprano
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For any Dorothy L. Sayers fans who don‘t already own this, or for anyone who loves a good mystery, this popped up in my Bookbub email today.

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shanaqui
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This is perhaps the most serious novel of Sayers' output: she was, it's saod, tiring of Wimsey -- but that doesn't show. It's an honest dissertation on the kind vs the heart, with a detective subplot. The important parts are all Harriet's slow understanding (at last!) of Peter and what he offers her. I love it so much.

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Oh, my goodness, this book is a delight! I never know quite what to expect from this quirky cast of Oxford women.

Lynnsoprano One of my favorites! 6y
saresmoore @Lynnsoprano I can see why! Sayers is brilliant! 6y
Lynnsoprano @saresmoore Once you finish this, Busman‘s Honeymoon is a must. Probably my favorite Sayers. 6y
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Leftcoastzen Need to read ! Found a copy recently. 6y
saresmoore @Lynnsoprano Ooh, great! I look forward to it! 6y
saresmoore @Leftcoastzen It‘s a refreshing read, hope you enjoy it, too! 6y
Moray_Reads @Lynnsoprano I plan to read Busman's Honeymoon over Christmas. I'm devastated that it's the last Wimsey-proper book. Have you read any of the books completed/written after Sayers' death? 6y
Lynnsoprano @Moray_Reads No, I haven‘t. I just can‘t bring myself to. 6y
Moray_Reads @Lynnsoprano that's how I feel too 🙁 6y
batsy This is one of my favourites 💜 6y
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saresmoore
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This is from the Author‘s Note—I like it already! I‘m getting a jump start on next year‘s reading challenge because this just came available from my library. Looking forward to it after it was highly regarded by @Moray_Reads

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Sayers had some razor-sharp observations on women's education, and the attitudes towards it, in Gaudy Night (Geoffrey sounds like a prat) #schoolinlife
@cinfhen @Billypar

charl08 Cited this book in my thesis! 6y
gradcat I absolutely loved 6y
Moray_Reads @gradcat me too, Gaudy Night for thinking and Murder Must Advertise for fun! 6y
Moray_Reads @charl08 very cool. What was your thesis? 6y
batsy @gradcat Me three! 💜 6y
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Moray_Reads
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Loved this one. The mystery isn't particularly central nor the perpetrator difficult to identify but it's a wonderful insight into Oxford life, good and bad, and there some fascinating discussions of women's roles and responsibilities. It's obviously a very personal story for Sayers. Picture is of the front quad of Lord Peter's college (Balliol) from my recent trip to Oxford

JazzFeathers Sounds like one l need to read. I've been meaning to read her for a while now 6y
Moray_Reads @JazzFeathers definitely one of my favourites. I'd read Strong Poison and Have His Carcase first as Harriet Vane is introduced and developed in these and is the main character in Gaudy Night 6y
Kalalalatja Great photo! I love Oxford 👌 6y
batsy Yes! I love this book for those reasons. Although I did find the odd goings-on a bit unnerving at times, too 😆 6y
Moray_Reads @batsy yes, lots of heightened passions! I loved the relationships between all the different women. They felt very genuine and showed so many opinions and compromises. I liked seeing Lord Saint George too 6y
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MaureenMc
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This mystery just didn‘t land for me. Too many characters, too many superfluous scenes, and too many archaic and otherwise references to Oxford and England that I just didn‘t get.

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Suelizbeth
Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers
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An extremely involved, beautifully complicated mystery, with gorgeous descriptions of university life and environs. The story has a distinct feminist bent and so I‘m not satisfied with the ending between Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey. It feels like a cop out, but more true to the times, perhaps? Otherwise, I loved it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Readathon #24B4Monday @TheReadingMermaid I‘m at 16 1/2 hours and hope to make it to 24.

Leftcoastzen I found a copy not long ago, sounds like I need to move it up mountain TBR!😀 6y
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Suelizbeth
Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers
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I am loving this book! It‘s the Modern Mrs Darcy book club September selection that has taken me until now to read. I overbooked myself in September, pun intended. The book flight is Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl, which I probably won‘t be able to finish this month. #Readathon #24B4Monday @TheReadingMermaid

BeansPage You're still killing it with the time! 👍🏻 6y
Suelizbeth @TheReadingMermaid Thanks! 📚❤️ 6y
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RebeccaRoo7
Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers
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I haven't committed to annotating any of my books since graduating from college. I forgot how fun and consuming it can be! #havefun #alwaysannotate #noslackinghere #dorothysayers #modernmrsdarcy #bookclub #mystery #detectives

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suvata
Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers
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My first Dorothy Sayers. Guaranteed it won‘t be my last!

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Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers
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Starting today: #MMD Book Club September 2018 pick

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Leniverse
Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers
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📚 Gaudy Night (but also Geek Love and The Graveyard Book)
✏️ Neil Gaiman
📺 Gilmore Girls
🍽️ Gnocchi

#ManicMonday
#LetterG
@JoScho

julesG Gnocchi! ❤️ 6y
JoScho Yeah gnocchi is a good one! 6y
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