North Carolina, Massachussetts and Missouri

Alerts for today and tomorrow (March 20 and 21):

1.  In Fayetteville, NC:

The series Let's Talk About It: Mad Women in the Attic kicks off at 6:30 p.m. March 20 at the Headquarters Library with "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Brontë. (The Fayetteville Observer)


What happens to a woman whose behavior defies social and domestic expectations? Perhaps she is locked in an attic; more often she is a woman involved in a quest to discover her identity. These works may help us redefine "mad women."

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
• Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
• The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
• Sula, Toni Morrison

 2.  In Rockport, MA:

The Rockport Public Library will host a meet the author event Wednesday, March 21, 7 p.m., in the Brenner Friends Room. Novelist Margot Livesey will discuss "The Flight of Gemma Hardy," a modern variation of "Jane Eyre" set in Scotland in the 1960s. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Rockport Library, Toad Hall Bookstore, and the library. The public is invited. (Gloucester Times)

3. In O'Fallon, MO:

Book Discussion Club - "Wuthering Heights"
March 21, 2012, 10:30 am Middendorf-Kredell Branch Library,

There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than the story of the tormented Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.
Join a book discussion group at the library. Participants should read the book in advance. You can pick up a copy at the library. Sponsored by Friends of the Library.
Registration required. (Tamara Duncan on Lake Saint Louis Patch)