The day Blogger went down

First of all, we are very sorry for any inconvenience the downtime in some Blogger server may have caused / be causing. It is totally out of control for us.

On to the news now.

Apparently the ITV is trying to sabotage Jane Eyre.

There's drama aplenty in the battle for viewers this autumn. ITV chiefs are so desperate to beat their BBC rivals they've brought forward the new Cracker film by more than a month so it goes head-to-head with the Beeb's adaptation of Bronte's Jane Eyre.
"Cracker was initially supposed to be screened in November," whispers our source. "But it's now going out on October 1 - against the second part of Jane Eyre. "It looks a like deliberate act of sabotage by ITV, which will only serve to damage both shows in the ratings." Crikey.

Oh well they might as well try - but don't they know Jane always triumphs in the end?

The Independent reviews Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl:

It is difficult to sum up this almost encyclopaedic novel, with chapters named for great works - Pygmalion, Wuthering Heights, Things Fall Apart - and a "final exam" on characters and themes that no reader will pass. Marisha Pessl's first fiction begins as a comic road story, quickly becomes a Bildungsroman and ends as a mystery.

Reader I Married Him is creating lots of controversy. Today it's The Independent's turn to wonder whether men can write romantic fiction and romantic heroines.

Beyond the peaks scaled by the unique, ground-breaking Brontës lay a vast terrain of upper-crust ChickLit.

Ooh, we don't know about the rest of the article but they most certainly got it right when they said "ground-breaking Brontës" :)

And finally thanks to Sarah from the Brontë List, who has alerted us to the Yorkshire Life magazine where this month there is a couple of Brontë-related articles:

HAWORTH
The Bronte family legend is as strong as ever in this West Yorkshire town but there is much more to celebrate as Gillian Smallwood discovers
BRONTE LATEST
A new book takes a closer look at the Bronte family with pictures by Simon Warner

If you're in the area - go out and buy September's issue!

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