Paper Cuts, a New York Times blog, chats with novelist Kate Christensen, who picks PJ Harvey's
To Bring You My Love as one of the songs on her 2009 playlist, says about it:
I once read a description of Polly Jean Harvey as “just a girl who fancies a bit of drama,” which made me laugh, because of course she’s the spiritual kin of Sarah Bernhardt and Catherine of “Wuthering Heights,” this tiny pale girl with a mass of black hair who’s evidently possessed by daemons or faeries. (Gregory Cowles)
The
San Diego Reader Weekly interviews ordinary people about their current reads. Today it's one Jeff Cooke's turn. He's reading
Breaking Dawn, from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga and a couple of questions end up being Wuthering Heights-related:
Compare it to other books you’ve read.
“Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights — two star-crossed lovers, that kind of deal. I love the gothic aspect of Wuthering Heights, how Katherine falls in love with two men and they’re both really bad for her, but both really necessary at certain points in her life. There are two characters in the Twilight series, Edward and Jacob, who are both in love with Bella, and she’s in love with them, but in different ways. She’s really deeply in love with Edward, and then she loves Jacob in a best-friend kind of way. I like Jacob — he’s a good, stand-up guy, and so I’m kind of rooting for her to get with him in the end.”
Who is your favorite character in Wuthering Heights? In Twilight?
“Probably Heathcliff. He’s very brooding, very damaged, very difficult to be around. He kind of reminds me of myself. In Twilight, Bella, because she’s very brooding, very confused, very difficult to be around sometimes.” (Sonia Eliot)
BlogCritics Magazine reviews Jane Eyre, the novel, and finishes with the following recommendation:
I won't spoil it for you. You've just got to get a copy and read it for yourself. Yet, even those who have already read it must do so again --very soon -- before spring comes and ruins the atmosphere! (Marcia Wilwerding)
We sort of agree, but we also must say that Jane Eyre is such a good book that it will bear any season.
The blogs are quite 'wuthering' today:
A Truth Universally Acknowledged and
Chez Emjy (in French) who both discuss Wuthering Heights 2009.
The Egalitarian Bookworm (Chick?) asks readers whether they all 'hate Cathy, or Just Charlotte Riley?'
A Reader's Respite has reread the novel and has several questions as well.
Mind Playground posts her favourite quotes from the novel.
Ananka's Diary has discovered an article on 'the staircase that inspired Jane Eyre' in
the Telegraph archives.
Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Music, Wuthering Heights
OMG! When I read the book, those climatic moments made it hard for me to breathe. I was on the verge of fainting. The book is breathtaking. The characters are well thought out and dramatic, but some just a bit fickle. But with all that aside, it's amazing!
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