There's hope!

Though very remotely Brontë-related (indeed we caught it for the passing, but irrelevant, mention to Charlotte) we were glad to read an article like this. A column written by teenagers where they tell the world about what goes through their minds. Shams Abbas confesses to knowing nothing at all about Jane Austen before the summer - and now having read her way through all her novels. This was what we liked:

After recommending some novels to my friends, I found that many of us are hungry for these tales, but are not encouraged to read them. Instead of promoting better reading habits, the most influential factors in teenagers' lives — media and celebrities — persuade them to spend their free time doing frivolous things, which neither gives teens long-lasting amusement nor enriches their knowledge.

Yay, there's hope after all!

You see, we post about lots of celebrities having grown up reading the Brontës. And how sad it would be for the celebrities of the future to have to say they grew up without them. In fact, Natasha Richardson - actress and wife of also actor Liam Neeson - has recently confessed to it as well:

I fear the poet in Richardson is hopelessly addicted to tragedy. "I'm afraid so. I don't know whether it's because of the books I read as a child - Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre - or the films I watched. Sam Mendes noticed the same instinct when he directed me as Sally Bowles in Cabaret in 1997.

(You will be needing bugmenot.com to read the whole article)

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