tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post4008489616979588350..comments2024-03-27T20:39:56.527+00:00Comments on Clothes In Books: Ringing in the New YearClothes In Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-70544833371645964182016-01-12T13:18:55.069+00:002016-01-12T13:18:55.069+00:00What a lovely memory. Yes, the book is a strange m...What a lovely memory. Yes, the book is a strange mixture of a realistic picture of the countryside, and some rather nasty bits. Still one of my favourites.<br />Happy New Year to you too, and thanks for blog support and keeping on writing.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-6333223345139853492016-01-11T14:45:39.703+00:002016-01-11T14:45:39.703+00:00I love this one too—I was a vicar's daughter a...I love this one too—I was a vicar's daughter and the belfry was a peaceful place to read, in Canada where churches usually only have one bell. But I don't re-read it often, because the tower death is so grim. Happy New Year, Moira, and thanks for your posts. Marina Endicotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00832364315638669498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-85534818468053783452016-01-06T22:02:29.373+00:002016-01-06T22:02:29.373+00:00Thank you so much, what a nice comment! I'm gl...Thank you so much, what a nice comment! I'm glad you are enjoying the blog, and hope you will find more old favourites here. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-4325287735959387782016-01-03T22:11:22.172+00:002016-01-03T22:11:22.172+00:00Happy New Year to you too Kathy! and to unreconstr...Happy New Year to you too Kathy! and to unreconstructed lefties everywhere.<br />Nice to hear about your reading, some good tips for me there and not much I have read.<br />I will do a best of the year list, but it won't be for another week or so - the blog birthday is in January, and saving it till then gives me a bit more time over the New Year to decide!Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-42912071235860723342016-01-03T20:55:09.595+00:002016-01-03T20:55:09.595+00:00I read this book way back in the Middle Ages in hi...I read this book way back in the Middle Ages in high school, but I don't remember it. I have seen a movie of it so I know what happens.<br />Happy New Year to you and your family. As one unreconstructed leftist to another, I'll wish for world peace and just treatment of all migrants, sans bigotry, an end to hunger, human trafficking, and medical care, education, housing and food for all who need it, an end to "austerity" and the meeting of human needs.<br />I have read one Nordi noir after another or Scottish or English. Mina's book "Blood, Salt, Water" is pretty tough, but good. Rowling/Galbraith's third book is OK. Dolan's first two are excellent. Am about to read her third after I finish Grisham's new one.<br />Are you doing a 10 best of ... list? I love those.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-27390053642458056072016-01-02T19:57:39.173+00:002016-01-02T19:57:39.173+00:00Happy New Year to you too Prashant, and let's ...Happy New Year to you too Prashant, and let's hope for a great 2016 for all of us.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-45272671796786753392016-01-02T15:22:55.690+00:002016-01-02T15:22:55.690+00:00Moira, a Happy and Glorious New Year to you! I wis...Moira, a Happy and Glorious New Year to you! I wish you the very best in 2016.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-33937205694150191882016-01-02T09:45:52.989+00:002016-01-02T09:45:52.989+00:00You'd probably like this one somewhat better -...You'd probably like this one somewhat better - I really can't see you getting on with Gaudy Night - but you should probably stick with what you've got. Happy New Year Col.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-40748965078483828242016-01-02T09:45:15.693+00:002016-01-02T09:45:15.693+00:00What a great way to celebrated the New Year. Hope ...What a great way to celebrated the New Year. Hope 2016 is a good one for you and yours.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-48672650099179017422016-01-02T09:44:49.045+00:002016-01-02T09:44:49.045+00:00What a nice thing to say - dig it out and enjoy. A...What a nice thing to say - dig it out and enjoy. A happy new year to you and yours.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-49984413168578212642016-01-02T09:44:20.262+00:002016-01-02T09:44:20.262+00:00That's so nice, thank you for the kind words a...That's so nice, thank you for the kind words and so glad you enjoyed it. Happy New Year to you and yours too....Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-80267024445755103312016-01-02T05:53:57.462+00:002016-01-02T05:53:57.462+00:00Happy New Year Moira. I think I'll stick with ...Happy New Year Moira. I think I'll stick with my copy of Gaudy Night!col2910https://www.blogger.com/profile/06422138069939709043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-15885404103488318252016-01-02T03:52:05.206+00:002016-01-02T03:52:05.206+00:00I started listening to the Ian Carmichael audio of...I started listening to the Ian Carmichael audio of TNT again on New Year's Eve. One of my favourite Sayers novels for the armosphere of the Fens & the characters.lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04509400868331534237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-63742883949444651182016-01-02T03:48:10.300+00:002016-01-02T03:48:10.300+00:00Oh...thanks for this. I so love Dorothy L Sayers. ...Oh...thanks for this. I so love Dorothy L Sayers. And this book which I haven't read in years. Hezekiah Lavender... sigh. Made my day reading this. Now I'm going to go dig out a couple of Sayers' books if I can remember where I've hidden them.Sue Burpeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07282970328494769657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-76411512853975256602016-01-02T03:35:03.521+00:002016-01-02T03:35:03.521+00:00Moira, I read this blogpost last year and it convi...Moira, I read this blogpost last year and it convinced me to read the book, which I had avoided for many years. I loved it!! Thank you so much for bringing the last unread (by me, anyway) Lord Wimsey book into my life!<br /><br />Wishing you a very happy new year!!<br /><br />ElizabethAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07418612871246199865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-71954835504364885092016-01-01T23:05:17.451+00:002016-01-01T23:05:17.451+00:00And just to prove the point, my husband has told m...And just to prove the point, my husband has told me that there is a mistake in the above: you don't start a peal by saying 'Go'.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-46207348408426810742016-01-01T19:23:01.053+00:002016-01-01T19:23:01.053+00:00I think if it caught you in the right moment you w...I think if it caught you in the right moment you would like it Tracy, do give it another chance. It is one of my very favourite detective stories.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-40204680012587289012016-01-01T19:21:55.600+00:002016-01-01T19:21:55.600+00:00I absolutely agree with you Les. As I said above, ...I absolutely agree with you Les. As I said above, my in-laws were keen bell-ringers, and I chose a passage from this book as a reading for my father-in-law's funeral, so it always makes me think of him. (He would have certainly been spotting mistakes in Sayers' descriptions, but he would also have appreciated the thought...)Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-40249936049812599352016-01-01T19:17:37.835+00:002016-01-01T19:17:37.835+00:00It is very intriguing - I married into a family of...It is very intriguing - I married into a family of keen bellringers, although I have never done it myself. It's a lovely ancient tradition. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-32125143261922850592016-01-01T18:38:19.807+00:002016-01-01T18:38:19.807+00:00I must try this book again. I am sure it would be ...I must try this book again. I am sure it would be the 3rd time at least. I think I liked everything by Sayers the first time through. Even after I complained about not liking it on the 2nd read, I bought a nice older edition at the book sale two years ago. So I must have had some desire to have another go at it.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-74688091813245318852016-01-01T18:15:25.602+00:002016-01-01T18:15:25.602+00:00I just discovered your blog while searching for so...I just discovered your blog while searching for something else - what a happy accident! I've perused some of your posts and am thrilled to recognize many of my favorite former reads and your amusing critiques. At my age I no longer remember the plots but a vague recollection is all that's needed to enjoy these posts. Happy New Year! LostRoseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06586462466899344347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-68780912182841534082016-01-01T16:45:41.641+00:002016-01-01T16:45:41.641+00:00The book has always been my favorite Sayers novel,...The book has always been my favorite Sayers novel, and I savor the quoted passages here in particular - I find them beautifully written and quite moving. To the critics of the bell-ringing passages, I would quote from Sayers's foreword to the book: "It seems strange that a generatio which tolerates the uproar of the internal combustion engine and the wailing of the jazz band should be so sensitive to the one loud noise that is made to the glory of God."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-41630784737596581332016-01-01T15:15:31.455+00:002016-01-01T15:15:31.455+00:00I'll have to read this one. We've been fa...I'll have to read this one. We've been fascinated by bell ringing for a long time. When we were in England in August our landlord told us he was a bell ringer and took us to church with him one Sunday----it was fascinating!!!Mac n' Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05732924562630675589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-29890095583132687632016-01-01T14:42:25.469+00:002016-01-01T14:42:25.469+00:00Happy New Year Margot - it just is the best New Ye...Happy New Year Margot - it just is the best New Year book isn't it? I'm glad that's a belief we both share. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-60071315699128423182016-01-01T14:41:38.856+00:002016-01-01T14:41:38.856+00:00Thank you, and happy 2016 to you too. I am not gre...Thank you, and happy 2016 to you too. I am not great at either visualizing or remembering the physical settings of books, but this is the huge exception, and the fens to me always are Fenchurch St Paul. Lucky you to see it all the time!Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.com