Killing Naked Roses

Confused about that heading? Well, according to this article, it is the more apt title to bring a book into the spotlight. So, you see, there's definitely something in a name after all. They have something to say about 19th century titles as well:

As with a seductive woman, a little mystery goes a long way; figurative titles fared better than the concrete. "This is really a long-term historical trend going back to the 19th century," says Peter Freedman of Lulu.com. "In the 19th century, (titles) were more likely to be literal than they are now." Think Oliver Twist and Wuthering Heights, compared with, say, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Does that make it impossible that Emily's second novel was going to be called Killing Naked Roses then? :P

Wuthering Height - a very apt title if you ask us - is definitely in the spotlight already. It's going to be "starring" in The Days of Our Lives, no less!

She finds a copy of Wuthering Heights - bought it a month ago. She says Stephanie must be a slow reader.

That actually made us laugh.

Pupils in two schools in Kingston, Jamaica, will be receiving a bunch of books sent over from Horndean, England.

They will mostly be classics such as Shakespeare and the Bronte sisters – the sort of staple books that pupils in the UK use for English literature.

Sending Jane Eyre to Kingston is an interesting idea. Perhaps some sort of new Jean Rhys will come out of it. Watch out for her in a few years!

And finally, the main character of Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners by Y. Euny Hong seems to be somewhat bookish:

The secret, it turns out, to surviving in a city full of beauties and brains but few graces is a surfeit of sitcom-ready charm. This, for Jude, comes second nature, if not from her royal ancestors then from the ones she name-drops with far greater frequency—Becky Sharpe, Elizabeth Bennet, and Jane Eyre, and all the rest of those proto-capitalist players. With a flawless ear for hyperliterate one-liners ("Jung's unchecked early years had made her untamed and feral, like a female Heathcliff")...

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