Fat mugs of chai and Brontë sister novels

People has an article on Michelle Williams. Either they haven't heard that she's out of the Brontë film project or they know more than we do.

That she has any leftover time for work seems astounding, given her roster of seven upcoming movies between this fall and the end of next year. They are The Hottest State, with Ethan Hawke; I'm Not There, the Bob Dylan biopic that also stars Ledger (the two share no scenes); The Tourist and Incendiary (both with Ewan McGregor); Where the Wild Things Are; Synedoche and Bronte. (Courtney Rubin)

Things seem to point definitely delayed until next spring, when shooting will supposdly start, so up until then the cast could vary totally from what it is now.

Philadelphia Weekly talks about Dar Williams's latest album. What is Dar Williams perfect for?

... and Dar was for sitting with, marinating with, crocheting wool scarves with over fat mugs of chai and Brontë sister novels. (Caralyn Green)

David Mills's book blog on the Guardian website talks about the fact that

By the middle of next year, libraries in places such as Leeds, Dorset, Somerset, Essex and Bromley, will receive around three million advertising inserts per month. This means that every time you borrow a book from your library, you will also get an insert.
What will this mean for our libraries? Well, apparently they will receive lots of extra revenue from it, which they undoubtedly need. But librarians themselves are less lucky: they will have their work cut out as they have to put the thousands of inserts inside the books by hand.

An example of what this could turn into:

Builders' merchant Travis Perkins might consider promoting their latest concrete deals in Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden; Cathy smashing the window in Wuthering Heights, meanwhile, shows how important double glazing is, which is where home improvement company Everest comes in. And A Clockwork Orange unquestionably highlights the importance of having a home security system, perhaps from ADT.

Trashionista chats with author Sophie King and she reveals who her favourite heroine is.

Your favourite female heroine (if different from above!), and why?
Jane Eyre. I identified with her at the age of 13 when I sat in the window on the top floor at school and discovered another world (more meaningful than the real one).

Jane Eyre is also the object of a review by Somewhere Quiet as well as by Kayıp kedi who writes about the 2006 TV version in Turkish. And the Brontës sisters themselves and their lives are summarised in a couple of languages. Bartolomeo di Monaco writes about them in Italian and Le Monde de James et Samy in French.

Categories: Brontëites, In the News, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Wuthering Heights