The Brontë sisters were particularly thrilling

The Hindustan Times chats to writer Anita Desai, who seems to fall straight into the category of Brontëite.

What do you like to read?
I grew up on the English classics and read English literature at Miranda House, Delhi University. The Brontë sisters were particularly thrilling. My mother, a Berliner, brought German classics with her — Goethe, Schiller and so on — which she would read to us with great passion in the evenings. I wonder what she would have made, though, of modern writers like Günter Grass. Well, I have kept up with my reading, I suppose. These days I am engrossed by Latin American writers.

Wuthering Heights seems to be the perfect sample for e-book readers. A few days ago we mentioned a Sony which included Wuthering Heights. And coincidentally enough today the French newspaper Libération writes about the pros and cons of the French rival of Kindle: Bookeen. Bookeen apparently comes with Hurlevent (Wuthering Heights in its French translation) preloaded.

Appropriately, News Flash: nothing is happening! posts a few pictures of the Haworth moors and Top Withins. And Grrrl Power pauses to consider the much-debated subject of food in the Brontë household. Reading the 1834 diary paper, we learn what the dinner for November 24 was to be:

We are going to have for dinner Dinner Boiled Beef Turnips potato's and applepudding

And thus Grrrl Power explains why the would eat their beef boiled and what an apple pudding could be, providing a recipe that could bring us closer to tasting what they would have eaten that day.

Now for some Jane Eyre. The novel is reviewed by Books on my shelf and Ellens tråd i veven (in Norwegian). And the second part (episodes 3 and 4) of Jane Eyre 2006 is now reviewed at length by Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet. (You can read her thoughts on the first part here). The DVD edition of Jane Eyre 2006 in Danish is reviewed by On-Z.dk.

And don't forget that Jane Eyre 2006 is included - together with the deleted scenes and rest of the extras - in the Brontë Collection that we're giving away!

Categories: Brontëites, Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights