A hard act to follow

Breaking news from the Brontë Parsonage Blog:

At the AGM, it was revealed that the Parsonage Director, Andrew McCarthy, will be leaving to take up a new post - with the Bradford-based Artworks - in July.
The report he made to this AGM was therefore his last. Vastly popular amongst staff and members, innovative and effective, his will be a hard act to follow. (Richard Wilcocks)

From BrontëBlog, we would like to humbly thank him for all he has done as director ('a hard act to follow' indeed) and wish him all the best in the future.

This Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist didn't suggest Wuthering Heights:

JJ chooses books because they are about dogs or are the right size and color to look good on her built-in bookshelves — a tip from a former interior decorator. Cliff Notes, movie versions and our mother got JJ through high school English, since I'm sure she never actually read an assigned book.
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"I'm at the bookstore. They're having a sale. If I buy two books that are on this table, I get one free. I already picked out a dog book, so I need two more."
"Are these books for you?"
"Yes."
"What are your other choices?" I asked.
" 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' but maybe I could just watch the movie instead, 'Wuthering Heights,' and 'Brave New World.' "
"Are you going to read these books?"
"Of course. So would I like 'Our Town'? What's it about?"
I briefly explained 'Our Town' to JJ. "You might like it," I tell her, "but it's not exactly a happy ending kind of story, and I'm not sure there's a dog in it."
I recommended "Brave New World." Even if she never read it, it would improve the quality of her décor. (Kathleen Martin)

More on dogs and reading, as this Huffington Post writer tells how she came to discover Emily Brontë's poetry:

For me, a love of Emily Bronte's poems came not from being spoon fed them as a child, but from the thundering impact of discovering that her dog, Keeper, accompanied her funeral cortege to the church and then thereafter, slept outside her bedroom door. (Hilary Robinson)

The Telegraph and Argus posts further on the campaigns against the wind farm in Brontë country. The Brontë Sisters posts about Patrick Brontë and Mary Burder with location pictures from Google Earth and Google Street View. Não gosto de plágio writes in Portuguese about Emily Brontë in Brazil while The Powell Blog has created a Wuthering Heights 1939 picture gallery. Délaissé posts about Shirley. Teen Tops finds inspiration in the Brontë family. Suddenly Books posts about Little Miss Brontë: Jane Eyre and 667B Baker Street reviews Eve Marie Mont's A Breath of Eyre.