With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
2 weeks ago
Where do outsider musicians go if the mainstream never lets them in? They stay outside, clawing at the window panes like Emily Brontë ghosts. (Simon Price)The Daily Mirror recommends Haworth's Youth Hostel:
Set in Brontë country, the YHA Haworth, was built in 1884 as a private home. Décor is seriously upmarket with a grand stone portico leading through stained-glass doors into a soaring lobby, while up the grand oak staircase is a carved upper gallery.The New York Times doesn't like EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey:
Don’t expect the rooms (singles to eight-bed dorms) to have the same level of luxury, but they still have a certain faded grandeur with high ceilings and tiled fireplaces.
On the ground-floor is the only double bedroom, with bunk above, and private disabled-access bathroom; otherwise the only en-suite is one of the six-bed dorms.
An upper floor has more rooms in the old servants’ quarters with mind-your-head black beams and views over the village and moors beyond. Breakfast is served in the large dining room, bistro meals offered nightly, though it’s worth a walk into cute Haworth village. (Marjorie Yue)
Even though James writes like a Brontë devoid of talent, her saga is the first smash hit in the era of “Mommy’s naughty reader,” as a 10-year-old dubbed it in The Wall Street Journal. (...) Anne Rice,In a Hole, Under the Hill... and Un Lector Indiscreto (in Spanish) review Jane Eyre; Emoções à flor da pele (in Portuguese) reviews Wuthering Heights; Le Blog de l'École des lettres is reviewing the recent French edition of Emily Brontë's poems; Strambergare (in Swedish) and Heldinne's Reis (in Dutch) review Wuthering Heights 2011; Zvirzdins at Large posts about Jane Eyre 2011; Confessions of a Psychotic Housewife reviews BabyLit's Jane Eyre: Little Miss Brontë; Rebekah Loper, Writer reviews A Breath of Eyre.
the godmother of vampire and SM fantasies, told me that “Twilight is like Jane Eyre”. Or Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. As is Fifty Shades of Grey. A mousy, virginal girl, who is spirited beneath her shy demeanour, falls in love with a rich, arrogant man. She learns that he’s damaged, but decides to persevere and heal him through her transforming love. HEA, as they say in romantica: Happily Ever After.(Maureen Dowd)
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