Troubled, neurotic, bi-polar Rochester

The Hunger Games continues generating Brontë mentions. This Hartford Courant columnist belongs to the 'been there, done that' group:

Katniss Everdeen (Catherine Earnshaw, anybody?) is forced to accept the responsibility of adulthood before she feels ready, just like everybody else. [...]
The best line, according to fans, is "This is the time to show them everything. Make sure they remember you." Emily Brontë, Mark Twain or Larry The Cable Guy all would have come up with a wiser, sharper and more memorable phrase for "Git-R-Done." (Gina Barreca)

Joan Bakewell discusses how you approach love through the ages in The Independent:

Then the hormones kicked in and I became a sucker for DH Lawrence and the fire in the blood. Emily Brontë's message was that tortured passion was better than gentle loving. All this led to turbulent times and love and sex became a major pre-occupation. I read about it, fantasised, saw the movies Brief Encounter, Gone with the Wind but didn't do much about it.

The Telegraph features Michael Fassbender and describes his portrayal of Mr Rochester as an

intriguingly troubled, faintly neurotic reading of Rochester in director Cary Fukunaga’s superb, underrated adaptation of Jane Eyre. [...]
Of Rochester in Jane Eyre, he says: “I wanted there to be something attractive about him that Jane would be drawn to – maybe a vulnerability. The first thing that struck me was: this is a kind of bi-polar character. Plus he’s a sort of Byronic hero – with a shady past, someone rebelling against social norms.” (David Gritten)

Have we become too cynical or does this columnist from the Chicago Sun-Times mean to say that the baseball game was a bore?

Even my older son looked up from reading Jane Eyre from time to time to glance at what was happening on the field. (Neil Steinberg)

Or may he mean simply what he says?

ITV News looks into the Brontë country windfarm controversy, a decision on which is due today. The Brontë Parsonage Blog is clearly opposed to the windfarm. LFP reviews Chekhov's The Three Sisters and its possible Brontë inspiration is mentioned in passing. Book Rhapsody and World erlenmeyer (in Spanish) post about Jane Eyre, Bani's Books is rereading the novel and Life: My Occasion loves the 2011 adaptation. The Book Hunter and My Teen Reads write about Wuthering Heights while Cornucopia posts about the 2009 adaptation. Szafka z książkami writes in Polish about The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. And Deck Shoes has been to Brontë Country.