A Backpack full of Brontës

The London Evening Standard makes a list of popular erotic books:

Jane Eyre Laid Bare
Coming soon, Jane Eyre fans will probably wail in despair as Sinclair opportunistically rides the wave of saucy fiction. Sinclair describes it as “an erotic version of my favourite classic” and it’s set to be huge.  (Olivia Williams)

The Chicago Tribune asks its readers about their favourite literary couple:

Heathcliff and Catherine from "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. (Grace Hanel, South Bend, Ind.)

The ABC Sydney programme Mornings reviews Little Miss Brontë and the other books of the series:

These board books are primarily counting books and colour books but with a twist. Instead of using animals or photographs as the examples for counting and colours these board books are inspired by the classics. So in Alice in Wonderland you have purple bottles and yellow teapots, in Pride & Prejudice you count the manor house and the suitors, in Jane Eyre you count the candles and towers and in Romeo & Juliet you count the love letters and masks. The illustrations are colourful and engaging and you can boast to your friends that your child is already reading the classics! (Lyndall Bell)

On the Rocky Mountain Collegian Erin Browne writes about how he doesn't like e-readers and makes this (lovely) confession:

For about two months in the 8th grade I carried around the complete works of the Brontë’s and the complete works of Shakespeare, both hardcover, in my backpack at all times. I don’t know why I did this. Do you know how big those books are? They probably weighed more than I did. However, I was thirteen and incredibly bookish and nerdy.

And we have another writer remembering his teenage years. On Nooga in an article about what success means:

In high school, I spent most of my time drawing or painting or making strange sculptures out of old blender parts, so of course when I thought "success" I thought "artistic talent." This was tough because my friend group was made up of some intimidatingly talented artists. Two of the most talented were sisters who did not major in art but relegated it to a very intense hobby. Like modern-day Brontë sisters influenced by Japanese anime, they created an elaborate comic book kingdom lushly illustrated over thousands of pages and occasionally brought to life with hand-sewn costumes and stuffed animals.  (Meghan O'Dea)

A list of weird college majors is presented like this in The Huffington Post:

These students aren't in the library writing papers on the Brontë sisters, but making puppets, grape growing, and drawing comics. The list continues to surprise. (Anna Susman)

Movie Line reviews the new The Amazing Spider-Man movie:

Still, [Andrew] Garfield makes you believe in his geekiness. His Peter seems to be uncomfortable making eye contact, and the occasional shy smirk crosses his face, though it’s less a bratty affection than a nervous tic – he’s like a sweet-natured Heathcliff with just a touch of Asperger’s. (Steve Zacharek)

The Globe and Mail talks about coupling versus staying single:

Perhaps the point in all this (which Charlotte Brontë instinctively understood) is that we shouldn’t define ourselves by relationship status, but by our relationships to the world. As the late great Nora Ephron observed in one of her final essays, “For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not.”  (Leah McLaren)

Kimberly Eve Musings of a Writer reviews the William Luce's Brontë performances on the off-Broadway (and remembers a 1983 one-night-only performance of the piece in Los Angeles played by Julie Harris);  Vulpes Libris has finally read (and liked) Shirley; unclairjour scans and selects some passages from Phyllis Bentley's The Brontë Sisters; Myśli skrzętnie ukryte... (in Polish) reviews Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey; also in Polish, Szafka z książkami has visited Haworth and the Brontë country (like Hebden Bridge WI); Author Support, shita hapsari and Blog d'un bas-bleu and Guenievre-queen (both in French) post about Jane Eyre; Achados & Comprados (in Portuguese) reviews Wuthering Heights; Twisting the Lens and Don't Take My Books Away review Margot Livesey's The Flight of Gemma Hardy; El Despotricador Cinéfilo (in Spanish) posts about Wuthering Heights 1992; tangle wood compares Jane Eyre and Eugene Oneguin; grande-caps has uploaded a gallery of caps of Jane Eyre 2011; poetictouch2012 uploads a reading by Lucy Perry of the Anne Brontë's poem The Consolation.