Bertha in Bed

The Scotsman interviews author Fay Weldon who has an interesting opinion on ebooks:

Publishing is in a state of flux but Weldon is surprisingly upbeat about its future and apparently unperturbed by the advance of the e-book. She's very modern for a woman approaching 80. It takes two years to write a book, she says, and two to get it on the shelves, so books are already four years old when the public reads them. "Nowadays books are written for a society that has moved on from when the writer conceived of them. It's not relevant, loses its impact. Jane Eyre arrived in a brown paper parcel at her publishers in her handwriting and was in the shops in six weeks. If people are now going to bung books on a Kindle then good for them."

Playbill announces auditions for singers and dancers for a Fullerton Civic Light Opera production of Jane Eyre next October:

Singers When: 8/22/2010 2-6pm Sign-in at 1pm Sunday, August 22nd • EPA Rules are in effect. • A monitor will be provided. Where: Fullerton Civic Light Opera 218 W. Commonwealth Fullerton, CA 92832

Dancers: When: 8/22/2010 Males 7 pm Sign-in at 6:30 pm Females 7:30 pm Sign-in at 7 pm Sunday, August 22nd • EPA Rules are in effect. • A monitor will be provided.

More information about the roles here.

Cafemom recommends names to avoid for your second child:

2. Obvious Literary Siblings. Jack and Jill. Ramona and Beatrice. Your kids don't need to hear books and nursery rhymes quoted at them ad infinitum.
If You Liked This Idea: Go for less obvious links or investigate the lives of your favorite author. Holden Caulfield's sister was Viola. The Brontë sisters are Emily, Charlotte, and Anne. (Jeanne Sager)

The Yorkshire Post confirms that all rangers of parks are not Heathcliff wannabes:

Simon [Bassindale]'s patch covers about a third of the [North York Moors National P]ark, and while the romantic image of a ranger is of some Heathcliff-like character roaming around the countryside the reality is, of course, somewhat different. (Chris Bond)

One of the bloggers of Forever YA confesses to a Brontë past (historical fiction...erm?) in The Huffington Post. Readligion reviews April Lindner's forthcoming Jane:

Given that it would be a very subjective topic, I will not address whether classics should be retold or whether this a good retelling. I am just going to share my thoughts about the book on its own. I LOVED IT! I could not put this one down, which was so welcome after reading a string of mediocre titles.

Another good review, in this case of Juliet Gael's Romancing Miss Brontë, comes from Wordplay - Writing & Life; Serggio D. Oros - Libros posts an original writing about Emili (sic) Brontë (in Spanish); An Opinioned Synopsis has also one about Jane Eyre; Beth and John's Movie Odyssey posts about Wuthering Heights 1939 (or rather about the difficulties to find a copy in the US); Les Brontë à Paris translates into French a fragment of Charlotte's Stancliffe's Hotel. And we cannot but end with this comment posted on a Croatian online dating website as compiled by Mačka U Martama:

Bit ću Jane u kućanstvu, ali Bertha u krevetu. (I will be Jane in the household, but Bertha in bed.)

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