Enriching generations

D Magazine's Front Row picks Mia Wasikowska as one of the three actresses of the year:

Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre, Restless, Albert Nobbs): Perhaps Mia Wasikowska was best cast this year in Gus Van Sant’s macabre teenage romance, Restless. In that film, all of the actress’ pure charm was on display, her soft, adorable beauty and a melancholic sweetness that is so readily available to the camera. But it was her performance in the title role of Jane Eyre that showed off Wasikowska’s dramatic breath, especially in how she submerged her character’s dynamic elements – Eyre’s intelligence, fiery sprit, and innocent sexual sense – for a performance that was muzzled and under pressure, ready to explode. (Peter Simek)

The rest of today's newsround seems to be about the love of reading. As this Fort Wayne News-Sentinel columnist reminds us:

Let me remind you that there are gems on those shelves that need to be given to youngsters. Please don't forget “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “Jane Eyre” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” – novels that not only survive from generation to generation but enrich each new generation with their classic excellence. (Betty Stein)

Another column from the News-Sentinel also vindicates reading:

My father was one of the smartest men I've ever known. Oddly, he very rarely read. Being an avid reader myself, I never fully understood his aversion to the activity. So one day, I asked him.
“Once you have kids, you just don't have the time,” he responded with a shrug.
I couldn't wrap my literature-addicted mind around his statement. What would life be like without Charlotte Brontë, Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne? (Jill Adams)

Rediff compiles a list of suggestions. Those listed under 'classics' are:

Classics: Jane Austen, the Brontë Sisters, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, John Steinbeck, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alexandre Dumas. (Radhika Mittal)

San Antonio Express-News states the obvious:

I don't know about Fehrenbach, but readers should know the difference between fiction and nonfiction; and, if anything, Homer, Malory, Dickens and the Brontë sisters were fiction writers. (Julian S. Garcia)

The Daily Kos has a sketch script that includes a reference to Wuthering Heights:

Mitt: Good questions. (Speaks to himself.) Shall I? (Speaks to Arthur.) Well we'll be announcing on June 2, and staking out the following positions. (Opens large book, clearly labeled Wuthering Heights.)

Um Ano em 365 Filmes reviews Jane Eyre 2011 in Portuguese. Madre Terra writes about the novel. In the making reviews Wuthering Heights 2011.