Murder, mayhem, mystery

The Kanawha County Public Library's Book Brawl continues with its fourth round and now Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights has a really tough competitor. In the Charleston Gazette:

Readers have until midnight Dec. 20 to vote in the fourth round of Kanawha County Public Library's Book Brawl to determine Kanawha County's favorite book.
New pairings have been posted on KCPL's Web site. Vote online at www.kanawhalibrary.org each week, as books are eliminated. The last book -- the favorite -- will be announced Jan. 4.
The competition closes KCPL's yearlong celebration of its 100th anniversary.
Here are the brackets for the fourth round of competition: (...)
2. "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee, vs. "Wuthering Heights," Emily Brontë. (Rosalie Earle)

The Florida Times-Union reviews P.D. James's Talking About Detective Fiction:

She explains that murder, mayhem, mystery have always been a part of the classic novel. Dickens, Bronte, Austen, Forster, Collins all used these elements in stories. (Lee Scott)

Another reference to the Brontës can be found in this summary of the novel The Servants' Quarters by Lynn Freed:

In this deeply atmospheric novel, Freed blends Dickensian musings on class with a Brontë-like love story, set against the backdrop of South Africa after the Holocaust. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Unreality TV mentions that one of the participants of the TV show So You Think You Can Dance was the young Heathcliff in the original production of the Northern Ballet Theatre's Wuthering Heights and Much Madness is Divinest Sense will enter also in the All About the Brontës Challenge.

Categories: Dance, References, Wuthering_Heights