Reviewing Jane Eyre for 16 hours

A few book reviews mention Jane Eyre today.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Lawrence Block’s A Drop of the Hard Stuff for The Washington Post:

Sometimes, you open up a book, and you just know: You’re in the hands of a master. Different things can signal that a golden read is about to begin: the voice, for sure (Hello, Holden, Huck and Jane Eyre — I’m talking about you!); the atmosphere (see the prologue to “The Turn of the Screw”); or the setting (a day trip to Baskerville Hall or Thomas Mann’s Venice, anyone?).

The New Zealand Herald reviews Natasha Solomons's The Novel In The Viola:

Solomons describes the book as a "story of the sea, of love lost and found, and of a novel hidden inside a viola". Sources of inspiration included such masterpieces as Rebecca, Remains of the Day and novels such as Jane Eyre.
There's even a Jane and Mr Rochester element to the her story, set on the coast of Dorset. "I call him Mr Dorchester," Solomons says. "I wanted to write about the last days of a great country house but seen through the eyes of an outsider - hundreds of years drawing to a close.
"As it should do," she hastens to add, in case anyone should think she is stuck in a time warp. "Those houses need armies of servants, and [are based on] inequalities unacceptable in the modern world." (Frances Grant)

The Guardian reviews the children's book The Exiles in Love by Hilary McKay:

Romance is in the air, when Ruth falls for a bus driver. Yet her heart also yearns for the mysterious Mr Rochester, a character from Jane Eyre.

TGDaily is surprised to find that

there are still a number of classic movies that still aren't on DVD, or have gone out of print, including Orson Welles' Magnificent Ambersons and Chimes at Midnight, Greed, Wuthering Heights, Porgy and Bess, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Viva Zapata, and Kubrick's first film Fear and Desire, just to name a few. (David Konow)

The Telegraph has the blunder of the day in an article about hyperemesis gravidarum:

Charlotte Brontë is thought to have died of it in 1852. . . (Anna Tyzack)

True except for the fact that Charlotte Brontë died in 1855.

TimesRecordNews has an article on an Amtrak passenger who was kicked off an Amtrak train and was charged with disorderly conduct for talking on her cellphone for 16 hours. The columnist says,

I'm guessing by the time her fellow passengers watched Beard escorted off the train by Oregon police, they knew about her cousin's trouble with her boyfriend, her recent visit to her doctor, what she thought of the latest "Jane Eyre" film, and probably had acquired her secret recipe for tater tot casserole. (Lana Sweeten-Shults)

The film is actually reviewed by Vicky's Writings. Both Mis Lecturas Semanales (in Spanish) and Keith's 1001 Books Quest post about Agnes Grey. Word Mistery writes in Portuguese about Wuthering Heights and The Red Curtain Review discusses Cliff Richard's Heathcliff the Musical. Tantos Livros Tão Pouco Tempo (in Portuguese) writes about Wide Sargasso Sea. Świat między półkami reviews Jennifer Vandever's The Brontë Project in Polish.

Finally, the Brussels Brontë Blog has a post on Eric Ruijssenaars's comings and goings in New York.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights