When a Heath bar meets a Clif bar in a Werther House

The Durham Herald-Sun covers the recent Duke University Edible Book Festival. There's a Brontë contribution:

Meghan Lyon, who constructed her "Werthering Heights" house out of -- what else? -- Werther's candies, along with Twizzlers, with Clif bars and Heath bars for lead character Heathcliff standing alongside, said neither thinking of the idea nor construction were all that difficult.
"I just started to think of my favorite books and see if I could fit a pun in," Lyon said. "Then I just took out the glue gun and got to work." (Neil Offen)

Picture Source: DukeUnivLibraries

The Mansfield-Storrs Patch recommends going to the movies, particularly to see Jane Eyre 2011:

Perfect for experiencing our favorite governess’ blush when Rochester toys with her intellect by the fire that first night. Perfect for weeping freely when he appears to be planning a betrothal to another and breaks Jane’s heart. And perfect for believing that the dark, Byronic master of Thornfield could fall for her so thoroughly because she is so good and so frank and so loyal. Ah, there’s hope for plain girls everywhere. (Stephanie Summers)

The Minnesota Public Radio interviews Moira Buffini, writer of Jane Eyre 2011:

Hear the interesting life of a proficient writer raised in a working-class family. (And at the end of the hour, Moira Buffini joins host Kerri Miller to discuss her screenplay for the new film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre.") 

The Weston Forum publishes an article about Cary Fukunaga's Q&A at the Westport Youth Film Festival last March 10:

Weston High School student Catherine Kravchenko said, “Having read the book going into 10th grade, I thought that the movie was a fantastic adaptation. It was able to blend the most important parts of the book and still remain captivating and very enjoyable. It was also awesome to see all the WYFF students run the screening. They did an awesome job, and it was a really great event!” (Matthew Silverman)

A "few" reviews of the film are posted today: Hour of Gold, CinemaRoom, three red balloons, Lifeonthecutoff's Blog, Daughter of Whitman,  It is Purely My Opinion, Alvin's Adventures in Pop Culture, the marginalian, Only Orangery,  Bill's Movie News and Reviews, The Art of the Matter, Commentary Track, Bitchin' Film Reviews, Little Worlds, Wandering Through Moving Pictures, Booktalk and More, Stuff Maeri Likes, VoxTalk and Kaye Dacus.

The Hindustan Times asks author Sheba Karim about her favourite books:

Jane Eyre: I must have read this novel by Charlotte Brontë 20 times (though often skimming the part where Jane leaves Thornfield Hall). At its heart, it’s a story about a young, independent woman making her way in the world, guided
by her own moral compass, and it’s also one of the greatest love stories ever written — what tugs at the heart more than Rochester’s voice calling longingly for Jane across those desolate English moors? (Manali Shah)

The Wisconsin Journal Times reviews HBO's Mildred Pierce:

Actually, though, it's not her inability to resist men that derails Mildred. The insurmountable problem is her daughter Veda (first Morgan Turner, then Evan Rachel Wood). Mildred thinks Veda is special. So does Veda, a little snot who at age 11 flounces around in a silk robe and talks like a character out of an Emily Brontë novel as she orders everyone around. (Gail Pennington)

The Boston Globe presents some new books for young readers:

Phoebe Stone’s “The Romeo and Juliet Code’’ is quite simply the best novel for young readers I’ve read since “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.’’ Not that the two books are much alike. Harry Potter is rooted in fantasy, “The Romeo and Juliet Code’’ in reality and history. Rowling recalls British writers like Charles Dickens and J.R.R. Tolkien. Phoebe Stone brings to mind Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and Frances Hodgson Burnett (author of “The Secret Garden’’ and “A Little Princess,’’ referenced in this novel). (Liz Rosenberg)

The same newspaper recommends The Wayfarers' trips to Brontë country:

Wander through the towns, villages, and heather-filled moors that inspired the Brontë sisters to pen their 19th-century masterpieces. The Wayfarers’ seven-day walking tour along England’s Brontë Trail begins in Haworth, home of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, and ends in Chatsworth in the heart of the Peak District. You will visit North Lees Hall, the private manor that inspired Charlotte Brontë to write “Jane Eyre,’’ take a private guided tour of Haddon Hall, the 12th-century medieval manor house that was cast as Thornfield Hall in the new “Jane Eyre’’ film, and discuss the novel and film with local specialists. (Kari Bodnarchuk)

The controversy about the classics not being much read by UK GCSE pupils reappears in the Yorkshire Times:

“He’s more myself than I am,” says Cathy of her beloved Heathcliff, with words destined to live long in the collective memory.
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
It is impossible not to be stirred by the timeless prose of Emily Brontë, who along with her sister, Charlotte, must surely still rank as the greatest of all Yorkshire writers.
So it is depressing to note that classic English literature has fallen far in the esteem of young people. Of 300,000 children in one recent exam, only 187 chose to write about Wuthering Heights. In a generation obsessed with iPhones and Facebook, there is no doubt teachers face a battle in convincing our children of the enduring relevance of the classics.
But it is one they must win. An appreciation of these treasured works provides an unparalleled understanding of our shared heritage, and shows the remarkable scope of the English language.
More important still, such books can add a richness and a colour to the human experience which YouTube is unlikely to match. For the powerful themes of love and loss in Wuthering Heights are as true today as when they were first penned.

The Spoof! has some ideas for Katy Perry's next video:

Russell Brand has said that he is so proud of Katy and finds her 'incredibly desirable' with her alien ensemble. He revealed that in her next video she is going to recreate Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights' with Snoop Dog rapping as Heathcliff. (dutch)

The Observer has an article about new British actresses which includes Kaya Scodelario, the upcoming Cathy in Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights. This Gather user likes both Jane Eyre novel and film. The Arizona Republic publishes the hectic schedule of an average high school teacher who happens to be teaching Jane Eyre; Short, Easy Words Like "What About Lunch?", Discourse on the Times and Amy Olvas (in Hungarian) review the novel;  Gallery of Art by Alice Flynn confesses her love for the book; Las Vegas Review-Journal talks about the Nintendo DS 100 Classic Books which includes some Brontës; Alita.reads. continues looking for a soundtrack to Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë; Dry Ice Factory reviews I Walked with a Zombie 1943; Andi's Book Reviews and Fire in Mine Ears talk about the Brontës; Icons from Wuthering Heights 2009 can be found here; Petra Rhodin reviews Agnes Grey in Swedish; burgundo45 posts a series of videos about

"Letture intorno al camino", "Cime tempestose" di Emily Brontë. Lettura guidata a cura della Dott.ssa Chiara Case.

Finally you can check the one but not only Mr. Rochester's Blog.

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