"We didn’t change the story at all, but I still feel it’s different"

Mia Wasikowska, Jane in Cary Fukunaga's upcoming version of Jane Eyre, talks to the Chicago Sun-Times about her role:

Tell us about your upcoming projects.
I just finished “Jane Eyre” two weeks ago and it’s such a great character. We didn’t change the story at all, but I still feel it’s different from your typical period film. Plus, I worked with Judi Dench and Jamie Bell. Judi is the coolest woman in the world. She completely caught me off guard because she was so friendly and a lot of fun. (Cindy Pearlman)

The Wall Street Journal also publishes an interview with the actress:

“The funny thing is I read the book last year and I was five chapters in and I emailed my agent—this would be really cool, is there a script around? And like a month later it came up,” Wasikowska says.
So does she plan to start reading some other classics, like “Pride and Prejudice,” to see if that somehow spurs other literary adaptions to come her way?
“That would be nice, wouldn’t it?” Wasikowska says, smiling. (Christopher John Farley)

We don't know if you know the new (Penguin Classics)^REDTM collection. If you don't we suggest you take a look at the covers and the humanitarian project associated with it. Penguin Classics had asked their readers to choose the next (RED)^TM book to be published next Christmas:

We are delighted to announce that the winner is... Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë... as voted by you! Look out for the edition that will be published 1st December 2010.

No preview yet, though.

The Guardian talks about the wonders of reading aloud:

To promote this programme, the Reader Organisation is about to launch an anthology of prose and poetry, A Little, Aloud, for reading out in one of the hundreds of "read aloud" groups that have been springing up across the UK. It's an eclectic volume, with well-chosen gobbets from Tennyson, Dickens, Saki and Yeats as well as Elizabeth Jennings, Anna Sewell, the Brontes, Louisa M Alcott and Joanne Harris. (Robert McCrum)

The book will appear on September 30.

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon is reviewed by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

She knew Latin, loved George Eliot and the Brontës, and at 16 entered what is now Mount Holyoke College. (Sherri Hallgren)

The Island Packet reviews A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick:

It would be unfair to describe any more of the plot beyond saying that the reader will not be able to relax any more than the sex-obsessed characters. The novel, which has been compared to "Wuthering Heights" and "Rebecca," has been called "suspenseful and erotic" and "a dream of betrayal and eroticism whose impact remains after the fever has passed." It is certainly all of that. (Don McKinney)

The Modesto Bee interviews local writer and poet, Claudia Newcorn:

Favorite Authors: Rudyard Kipling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Vonda McIntyre, Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sara Gruen, Richard Adams, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Longfellow, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and dozens more. I'm a confessed bookaholic. Plus, I love a good movie with intricate plot -- if it's predictable, I yawn!

Twilight zone today:

In The Twilight Saga: Eclipse we get down to the nub of things. Bella Swan (Stewart) is deeply attracted to two men. There's Edward Cullen (Pattinson), a brooding, tortured soul, part Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, and part Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, and he has fallen in love with Bella and wants to marry her. (The Times, Zimbabwe)

Yet “Eclipse” also brings something for the gents, aside from this story with clear Heathcliff-y touches. (Elena Gorgan in Softpedia)

Life in the Thumb gives her opinion about Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre, Books in the Fridge reviews Shirley in German, Classic Literature Podcast continues posting podcasts of a Jane Eyre read by Elizabeth Klett. Blogs discussing Wuthering Heights: Onkar Sharma scribbles..., Preethi Anand, Look at the Stars (in Portuguese) and Réka blogja (in Hungarian).

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