Justine Picardie talks about shapewears in
The Telegraph:
Within the archives of the Brontë Parsonage Museum are several tiny
corsets, belonging to the sisters, and when you see them on a winter's
day, as I have done, it seems believable that Anne, Emily and Charlotte
died young because of a combination of cold, consumption and
constriction. It is the memory of these corsets that prompts me to
suggest that January might not be the best month to squeeze oneself into
the modern equivalent - now known as 'shapewear' - given that we are
already tortured by dismal weather, indigestion and winter viruses.
Breathing freely is therefore the only sensible option…
The author Ellis Avery is interviewed in
The Miami Herald and briefly talks about the new novel by Margot Livesey: a retelling of
Jane Eyre.
I recently read Margot Livesey’s virtuosic new novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, which resets Jane Eyre in early 1960s Scotland. As close a retelling as it is a fresh one, it offers the familiar pleasure of rereading Jane Eyre
and the thrill of constant suspense: I knew generally was going to
happen next, but how was it going to happen? Gemma, like Jane,
experiences profound, repeated and multifold homelessness early in life:
what’s breathtaking is how Livesey makes the blessings that come
Gemma’s way at the end strike us just as rawly as her suffering did in
the beginning.”
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/08/2577033/what-are-you-reading-now.html#storylink=cpy
The
Ogden Standard-Examiner talks about the Sundance screening of
Wuthering Heights 2011:
“Wuthering Heights,” 3 p.m. Jan. 22. A reinvention of
Emily Brontë’s novel of a passionate, destructive love set on the
Yorkshire moors of the late 18th century.
Still 2011 lists:
Take for example the "perfectly fine" latest version of Jane Eyre
from Cary Fukunaga. There's really nothing wrong with the movie (well,
maybe one thing). I gave it four stars and it deserved them well enough,
but it was all in all a bit like Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist
(2005) -- another "perfectly fine" movie that had the cumulative effect
of being just another version of a much-filmed story. The argument, of
course, can be lodged that not everyone has seen these earlier versions
and I won't dispute that. However, it was a better argument in the days
before home video made such versions so accessible. (Ken Hanke in Mountain Xpress)
Film Misery lists the film and
Jane Eyre 2011 is #2 in the Romance category of the
Golden Tomato Awards.
Almost a month later,
The Sunday Mirror covers the news of the Sotheby's auction of the Young Men's Magazine manuscript; The
Birghamton Books Examiner talks about
Wuthering Heights in movies basically discussing
Wuthering Heights 2009 and eagerly waiting for
Wuthering Heights 2011;
Katren's Reading Diary,
this literary life and
Brownie Points post about the original novel;
Tonårsboken (in Swedish) reviews April Lindner's
Jane;
Italian Mother Syndrome posts about how "
Jane Eyre saved
ruined my relationship";
Blue Eyed Night Owl posts about the novel.
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