"The brutality of Jane's rejection is still shocking"

All Things Foe... publishes Catherine Mayer's (check this previous post) reaction about Jamie Bell's portraying of St. John in Jane Eyre 2011:

Jamie Bell is very good. You want to like the character but can't.
The brutality of Jane's rejection is still shocking.

The Huffington Post talks about Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love (now a film directed by Ryan Murphy with Julia Roberts):

Let's be honest, Elizabeth Gilbert is enviable. Raised on a Connecticut Christmas tree farm, she and her sister got to read and play all the time, like latter-day Brontës, without having their brains turned to blood pudding by cable TV or other pernicious pop influences. (Clay Farris Naff)

Both the Guardian and The Bookseller have articles about Jeanette Winterson's fears for the future of libraries.

Book Chick City interviews author Brenda Novak:

I gained my enthusiasm for reading when I was in the fourth grade and discovered an entire row of classics in the Liberty School library. Previous to this point, I hadn’t liked reading at all. Maybe it was that boring Dick, Jane and Spot stuff, because The Secret Garden, Oliver Twist, Rebecca, Jane Eyre and Gone With the Wind showed me the real possibilities.

Another excellent review for Jude Morgan's The Taste of Sorrow in Royal Reviews (One of the best books I've read this year!); Educators at Home sells a Jane Eyre 1943 edition with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg; Not Enough Books is very disappointed with Wuthering Heights and La Dolce Vita has contradictory feelings about the book; Read with Style compares Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre and has strong feelings about the quality of the former and the ... trivial, banal, and absolutely boring Jane Eyre; Les Brontë à Paris talks about the men in the life of the Brontës (in French); Pensa Outra Coisa posts about Jane Eyre 2006 (in Portuguese) and Fuera de Servicio reviews Jane Eyre 1944 (in Spanish). Finally, Scribbles & Stories posts about Wide Sargasso Sea.

Categories: Fiction, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights