Cats and Twilight

The Wuthering Heights cover à la Twilight affaire is still generating controversy. From the Books on Film Examiner:

What does this marketing tool, however, say about book marketing in these times; about bringing the classics to the attention of more contemporary audiences; about publishers' expectations of readers; and other related issues? (...)
What do you think? Does it bother you that publishers are doing this? Does it matter? By the way, the UK version of the same edition features a white flower instead of the red rose, but the concept is the same. (Connie Ann Kirk)

Robot 6 (Comic Book Resources) reviews Richard Sala's Cat Burglar Black and uses that old good put-a-little-bit-of-Brontë trick:

I occasionally get some grief from my male friends when they find out I like gothic romance. (...)
But I’m so not and it’s a pity that books like The Castle of Otranto, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Northanger Abbey are so easily dismissed. I’m a sucker for any story about a young girl forced to move into a creepy old house with a terrifying owner and at least one locked room she’s not supposed to go into. What’s not awesome about that? (...)
The biggest pleasure of gothic stories though is the atmosphere. Whether it’s a brooding old manor on the moor or a ruined convent in the mountains of Europe, gothic romance surrounds the reader with a dark, spooky world full of secrets and lies. The heroine is the one candle fighting the gloom until the hero is able to arrive and turn on the lights for good. Sala does visually what Brontë and Poe did with words. (Michael May)

Jon Carroll in the San Francisco Chronicle talks about his life with his cat (Pancho) while his wife (Tracy) is in Taiwan:

He thinks he's the second Mrs. de Winter or Jane Eyre or someone - he thinks I've locked Tracy in the attic for her own protection. Or maybe she drowned in the rough waters off the coast of Cornwall. And Pancho sees a chance to move up in status. It's all just a little creepy, but Tracy will be back soon enough, and she'll clear it all up. In the meantime, as I've often said, it's always nice to have a friend in bed.

Cine101 posts about Jane Eyre 1996 (but we cannot disagree more about his opinions), Cozinha das Letras reviews with enthusiasm Wuthering Heights (in Portuguese), Riding with the Top Down gives the floor to Syrie James who talks about her latest book The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë, Ah Random posts about Jane Eyre, Pining for the West and A Son of the Rock post about the Brontë Parsonage and Haworth.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Haworth, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights