The teenage view

Part of today's newsround could be summed up under the title 'the teenage view' or something along those lines. You will see:

The Bismarck Tribune embarks on an ode to snail-mail. An ode we wholeheartedly second, but apparently the new generations do not.

My [14-year-old] daughter, however, looks upon my letters as a quaint Paleolithic affectation, a very late and low-tech echo of something you might read in "Little Women" or a novel by Charlotte Bronte. She senses, I think, that I write these letters as much for me as for her. Maybe she is right. (Clay Jenkinson)

The Hudson Valley Daily Freeman carries an article on the group of students behind the High School's annual student-produced magazine Reason & Rhyme.

For example, in addition to core English classes, students have options like science fiction literature.
“‘Jane Eyre’ is a great book,” noted [senior student Addie] Farr. “But maybe Isaac Asimov has written some great books too.” (Kyle Wind)

Some of the staff members from The Herald reminisce about their favourite books when they were children:

How to pick just one book when as a child my world was one of books and more books? Should it be Eliot's tortuous Mill on the Floss; Emily Bronte's dark, impossibly romantic Wuthering Heights? But then what about Jane Eyre? And then I remembered the books that set my heart racing every time the library produced a new, unread volume - the cover showing the five friends I wished were mine. (Fidelma Cook)

But there is also a sports section in today's newsround. Bleacher Report on the Australian Open 2009 final:

Well I was very pissed off about one guy, who was sleeping so soundly as if it was a Jane Eyre broadway in play, in the front row behind Nadal as he was serving in the fifth set. (Dev Ashish)

Funny how we could have exactly reversed that simile.

The Irish Independent on rally races:

There is a strange intimacy to rally people. They gather on heaths that would send Heathcliff back to bed, waiting for hours to catch a glimpse of the frenzied tussle between man and machine. Through the suspense, strangers chat like cousins, the quiet of the countryside wrapping their voices in church-like solemnity. (Vincent Hogan)

That last one certainly gets to carry home the gratuitous Brontë reference of the day prize in our opinion.

The Cape Cod Times is running a competition:

The love stories we watch in movies often have their beginning in romance-drenched books. Think "Jane Eyre" for a classic example or "Twilight" for a contemporary one. So we ask: "What's the most powerful love story you've ever read?" Tell us in 50 words or fewer the title/author and why the book is so romantic, and we'll randomly choose an entry to win a classic valentine box of candy. Send your entry (with name, address and phone number) to Books Contest, 319 Main St., Hyannis, MA 02601 or e-mail it to mlauwers@capecodonline.com. Deadline for entries: today.

And The Telegraph and Argus publishes a press release on the opening of the newly-refurbished Brontë Parsonage Museum. Surely worth a visit?

Wuthering Heights seems to be the blogs' buzzword: Colleen's Reading Corner, Pagina 69 (in Italian), and Book:blog all review it. Upstate Girl posts some of wood engravings Fritz Eichenberg did for the novel. And Los manuscritos del caos (in Spanish) picks its author, Emily Brontë, as writer of the month.

But there is some variety as well: You're History writes about Agnes Grey, Reading List of a Book Pusher: Year Two reviews briefly Ann Dinsdale's The Brontës at Haworth. Caroline en Voyage is going through a Brontë phase. Both Moomin's Book Blog and matejuvtestblog post about Jane Eyre. Name Calling publishes Part I of a fictional story which begins

The film premiere of Jane Eyre in West Hollywood starring Emily Rivens was to be the gold-plated medallion that defined her otherwise mediocre career.

Flickr user Hicksmade shares a picture of several (beautiful) old editions of Jane Eyre and Abigail709b has uploaded her 'Cathy shot'.

Finally, YouTube user Hotplatearts has a video on an 'Artspotting event for Haworth Arts Festival 2006 by Hotplate Arts '.

Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Fiction, Haworth, Illustrations, Jane Eyre, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights