The Brontës's woolly swordsmen

Barnes & Noble begins the promotion of the Jane Eyre 2011 DVD/BluRay (release next August 16, but available for pre-order) in Region 1:

It's easy to get your $5 eGift Card:
1. Add the 'Jane Eyre' DVD or Blu-ray to your cart.
2. Proceed to Checkout.
3. Your $5.00 Barnes&Noble.com eGift Card will be sent to your email address no later than August 23, 2011.

The Onalaska Homen Courier-Life is also waiting for this release:

Every Friday last March and April I waited, watched and longed for the movie theaters to list the newest version of “Jane Eyre,” based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë, one of my favorite books.
You see, I’ve read the book many times, but I’ve never liked any of the movie versions. This one was supposed to be great, but there’s just one problem — we never got it in the theaters here! Oh well, I just contented myself with a re-read of my worn-out copy of this classic love story. But be warned, “Jane Eyre” isn’t your typical love story. This is a gothic love story — dark, a little spooky and with complicated characters who are filled with angst, secrets and intrigue. (...)
While it didn’t make it to theaters here, the new movie version will be released Aug. 16 on DVD. Both the book and movie versions are available for checkout or request through the La Crosse County Library in Bangor, Campbell, Holmen, Onalaska and West Salem or at www.lacrossecountylibrary.org. (Suzanne Pence)

Ha'aretz (Israel) interviews the author Julia Fermentto:

Asked what she does like to read, she says that, at the moment, she has “a crush on Hemingway. Most unexpected.” “Wuthering Heights” is one of her favorite books − “I just love the Brontë sisters.” Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” had a major influence on her, too. (Maya Sela)

The author Joanna Briscoe chooses Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov as her book of a lifetime in The Independent:

When my publishers described my new novel as "'Lolita' meets 'Wuthering Heights'", I was taken aback. Did my influences show that much? But in writing of a 17-year-old schoolgirl and her relationship with her older teacher, the themes of longing and obsession and the power difference created by age come into play. In thinking back to the age I was when I first read Nabokov, perhaps I had absorbed more of its themes than I had thought. 

Techcrunch talks about things that physical books have and ebooks don't:

For authors — and for readers, too, I suspect — another significant pleasure afforded by physical books is the book signing; an opportunity for writers to meet (and thank) the people who let them keep doing the job they love, and for readers to interact with their favourite authors, and complain about the unsatisfactory endings of their best-known books. Yes, Charlotte Brontë, I’m talking to you. (Paul Carr)

Is he talking about Jane Eyre or Villette?

This parent on Gulf Today does not really know what his children are reading:

Parents say that they cannot refuse buying books to their wards as they do spend much time reading as well playing online. “The summer this time being unbearably hot, my children do not enjoy going out. My daughters and son enjoy reading Harry Potter, Enid Blyton series and my third daughter loves Emily Brontë stories like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights,” a parent opined. (Shamila Jamaluddin)

The Oakland Tribune has a summer quiz with a very easy question:

She probably outdid her sister when she wrote a story about her hero, Heathcliff, and the Moors she loved so well: A) Agnes DeMille; B) Edna Best; C) Emily Brontë; D) Meg Alcott. (Joe King)

io9 reviews My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares:

In the end, despite its mystical premise, My Name is Memory is a sweet, charming, unambitious love story. It's not Wuthering Heights and it's not even Twilight, but the kind of book that you breeze through on vacation. You'll close it with a sigh and pass it along to a friend, because it's not one you'll reread. (Kelly Faircloth)

We wholly understand The Independent reviewer of Empires of Food by Evan Fraser and Andrew Rimas when he says:

When the text touches down on the Yorkshire Dales, a reference to "the Brontës's woolly swordsmen" left this reader scratching his head. (Christopher Hirst)

The actual quote is even better:

Here is England at its windblown heigh, the rough country of the Brontës's woolly swordsmen and midnight-eyed heroines, a counterpoint to the thatch and rosebushes of the south.

Torontoist follows the history of the Toronto Public Library and quotes John Hallam, promoter of the Toronto Mechanics' Institute, antecessor of the TPL:

After a brief search for sites, the Mechanics’ Institute agreed to turn over its collection and property. Following renovations, the TPL officially opened its doors at the northeast corner of Church and Adelaide streets on March 6, 1884. Though it quickly became popular, critics felt the collection contained too much mind-corrupting fiction and needed more dry reference works. Hallam noted that he learned far more from the likes of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Sir Walter Scott than nine-tenths of the published sermons that Torontonians considered “good” literature. (Jamie Bradburn)

"The Hobby-Horse" discusses the setting of Wuthering Heights; Pickwick Society Book Club and mormonhermitmom's book habit talk about Jane Eyre; Cinema and Popcorn thinks that Mia Wasikowska's performance in Jane Eyre 2011 is the best ever; Écran de projections reviews Jane Eyre 1944; Native Audio Grrrl reviews several Wuthering Heights adaptations; Kirjamari reviews Wuthering Heights in Finnish.

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