A Renaissance football player and other news

Publishers Weekly has an article on BEA 2011 where

[Charlaine] Harris talked about the three most important books that inform her writing today—Edgar Allan Poe’s Collected Stories, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and Alexandre Dumas’s Three Musketeers. (Michael Coffey)

Another Brontëites is a 16-year-old student passionate about Chemistry who, The Hindu reports, also finds the time to read Emily Brontë.

Not sure about applying the adjective 'Brontëite' to him but Sports Grid considers football player Tiki Barber a Renaissance Man because

The Renaissance Man aspect of Barber shone through to Wertheim – he noted that in conversation, Barber “works in references ranging from Tony Soprano to Malcolm Gladwell.” But what also shone through was how some didn’t see his persona as entirely genuine. Said former Giants teammate Roman Oben:
“[W]e’d beat the Cowboys and fly home. Guys are yelling, playing cards and watching movies. Tiki’s sitting there, legs crossed, reading Wuthering Heights or whatever. Come on.” (Glenn Davis)

The North Leeds Life reviews Polly Teale's Brontë:

The set is dark and colourless – the only props being a door, a table and a couple of chairs. This is of no consequence as this is a play about words……. and lots of them. At one point they wonder why it is that they write – the answer was that it made life bearable. We watch as they wrestle both with their stories and their frustrations; their attempts to make some kind of living. (Muireann)

The Collegiate Times is not too thrilled about Jane Eyre 2011 while the columnist at the RoseHillPatch wants to go and see it even if her husband doesn't.

D'Encre et de Rêves writes in French about Jane Eyre and I ♥ reading posts about Wide Sargasso Sea. Flickr user tout_moi has uploaded a set of pictures taken at Haworth and the moors.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Theatre, Wuthering Heights