Balance is Healthy

Entertainment Wise, Hollywood Life, The Dirt and SugarScape seem to be very excited knowing that Twilight's Edward is named after Jane Eyre's Edward Rochester and Sense and Sensibility's Edward Ferrars as was published some days ago. We thought it was rather obvious... The Cleveland Plain Dealer notices further Brontë references:

The Twilight Saga: There’s really not much reason for me to go on at length about this third (of four) installments in the review-proof Twilight series, given that the diehard fans of the franchise are second only to Harry Potter’s in terms of brand loyalty. The movie is based on the Stephenie Meyer best seller which in turn was ostensibly-inspired by Emily Brontë’s gothic novel “Wuthering Heights.” (Kam Williams)

The connection is also explored on the blog Demon Vampire Horror.

Chowk (Pakistan) describes the life of a young woman in Karachi. We are frankly amused by this fragment:

After my O-level exams, I had no plans for the rest of the summer. At first, I slept for days and when I finally emerged out of my room; my first stop was at the British Council Library to issue a bunch of books. (...) And while on one end were stacks of intellectual literature, on the other end of the backseat lay a stack of rented videos of Bollywood and Hollywood. Balance is healthy, a little bit of Jaaneman for every few pages of Jane Eyre! (Padash)

The Memphis Flyer reviews Brian Dillon's The Hypochondriacs:

What do James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol have to share? Not much. Except they all led tormented lives, lives tormented enough to make them literally sick. Or so they believed. And so writes Brian Dillon, brilliantly, in The Hypochondriacs (Faber and Faber). (Leonard Gill)

More things: A Brontë cow (literally) in Keighley News, a students reading Wuthering Heights in The Lowell Sun, Cuir de Russie reviews the Classical Comics adaptation of Jane Eyre (in French), Public Republic publishes combines pictures and quotes by Emily Brontë. A thousand books with quotes reviews and quotes from Juliet Gael's Romancing Miss Brontë.

Categories: Books, Comics, Fiction, Jane Eyre, References