Song-inspiring books

The Twilight zonetoday is limited to USA Today:

The books and movies employ the classic romance-novel formula in scores of books from Jane Eyre to Harlequin romances, says Elisabeth Gruner, an English professor at the University of Richmond who has studied the Twilight phenomenon. (Maria Puente)

She may have studied the Twilight phenomenon but not so much Jane Eyre, we think.

Speaking of Jane Eyre, the Wilton Bulletin has related advice for rainy days.

If you want my advice concerning how to get through future rainy days, here it is: On the next nasty weekend, curl up tight, like a cat, on the window seat, like old Jane Eyre, and read a book, perhaps a murder mystery, where the rain has some purpose, at least. (Joanna Ecke)

And there are things that definitely only can happen in New York. Look at this notice from the New Yorker.

BUSHWICK BOOK CLUB
Books inspire many things: movies, plays, religions, and even political platforms. Less frequently, they inspire songs (Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights,” Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”). For the past year, the Bushwick Book Club, which meets monthly, has addressed that deficiency by choosing a bill of songwriters to compose songs prompted by a chosen book, ranging from “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” to “The Origin of Species.” In celebration of its one-year anniversary, the Book Club offers a best-of performance highlighting the year’s most inspired tunes. Songwriters include Dan Costello, Dibson T. Hoffweiler, Phoebe Kreutz, Ben Krieger, Corn Mo, and the club’s founder, Susan Hwang. (Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn. 718-453-6343. Dec. 1 at 8.)

That's surely a club worth belonging to and an event worth going to. And we definitely want more Brontë songs.

And Gapers Block has an article on The Mystery of Irma Vep on stage at Chicago with its Brontë references.

As for blogs, Side Street, Sydney posts about Wuthering Heights. And Days of Reading explains her aversion to Jane Eyre.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Music, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights