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Alibi.com has an amusing mock (hopefully!) summary of Wuthering Heights:

Will I save about $25 a year in taxes only to find that the library is only stocking book covers and handwritten summations of books because we cut funding to everything?
(Possible example: Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë. I am a gypsy, maybe. You are a girl. I love you. I love you, no I don’t. Heathcliff!! Are we dead? Hey kids, don’t love each other. I hate love. Catherine!! Do I die? I don’t remember the ending.)
The horror. (Erin McCullough)

Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life reports that The Harvard Lampoon will publish Nightlight, a parody novel of Twilight whose cover is fantastic. The comments that follow discuss the merits and demerits of the saga, including a couple of references to Wuthering Heights:

Kelsey
Tue 10/06/09 11:41 PM
Fair enough, but if you’re insinuating that Twilight is destined to become some future generation’s Wuthering Heights, I have to vehemently, although respectfully, disagree. I think it’ll fall off the map as soon as the last film comes out and the kids find the next Big Thing. There are some modern young adult books (Harry Potter, His Dark Materials) that I think have staying power, but not these.

Olivia
Tue 10/06/09 11:47 PM
to Kelsey-
I’m not a fan of Twilight, so I’m not saying that it will be a classic.Although, to play devil’s advocate, at the time of publication, nobody thought that Wuthering Heights would ever be a “classic”.

Miriam Clancy seems to have made quite an impression with her recent version of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. According to a press release published in Scoop,

A recent Auckland album launch show confirmed what we’d all suspected - this girl is a star! Envisioning Miriam on much larger stages was effortless as she steered the band through a set of mostly new songs and a rare cover of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights delivered skillfully much to the audience’s delight. With performances like that, Miriam Clancy with her band could hold any international stage of any capacity.

YourTango picks up the debate from yesterday's article on sexual harassment in the Huffington Post.

Blogs of the day: Click Me Shoot Me shares a few videos of the recent Japanese version of Jane Eyre the musical. Biblio_life writes about Jane Eyre. And Little Apple Bookworm reviews Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Music, Wuthering Heights