The moors as described by Emily Brontë

The Wall Street Journal has an article on 'the decline of description':

Forty years ago, the writer and critic Mary McCarthy was already lamenting the decline of description in fiction. "We have come a long way from the time when the skill of an author was felt to be demonstrated by his descriptive prowess," she wrote. "Dickens' fogs, Fenimore Cooper's waterfalls, forest, prairie, Emily Brontë's moors, Hardy's heath and milky vales, Melville's Pacific." (Cynthia Crossen)

And speaking of said moors, The Huffington Post also celebrated Yorkshire Day yesterday:

If you're looking for literary talent - look no further than the Brontë sisters, Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, Joanne Harris. (Lianne Marie Binks)

Author Susie Wild tells the Western Mail (Wales) about her summer reads:

As such my first summer read comes from a place very close to home and is packed full of rock‘n’roll.
Tiffany Murray’s Diamond Star Halo came out last year, but has just been released in perfectly portable paperback (and Kindle) form. [...]
It begins in 1977, when Halo is five, and Tequila, a band of American brothers, are in residence. When they depart, they leave a baby boy, Fred, ‘part seal-pup, part bloody Heathcliff’ who demands all of Halo’s heart. (Claire Rees)

In the meantime, the Guardian Messenger (Australia) is giving away a 'Jane Eyre pack' (which strangely enough includes the first season of Downton Abbey). True Classics and Backlots post at length about Devotion and Chroniques de Cachou et Chiwi writes in French about Wuthering Heights.

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