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Friday, August 17, 2012

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The Daily Express mentions Eve Sinclair's Jane Eyre Laid Bare in a review of  Eden Bradley's The Dark Garden:
Eve Sinclair’s Jane Eyre Laid Bare (Pan) is a sexed-up retelling of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel. With explicit scenes such as Jane’s secret fantasies and Mr Rochester’s sex parties at Thornfield Hall it’s enough to make Charlotte Brontë turn in her grave.  (Emma-Lee Potter)
Publishers Weekly's Beyond Her Book reviews April Lindner's Jane:
In Jane, Lindner has woven a tale that is both fresh and classic, one well worth reading. When I spotted my daughter reading this book, I was intrigued by the cover’s old-fashioned, yet modern, feel. When she told me the tale was partly inspired by Springsteen, I knew I had to read it. Recommended for teens and adults who have never met the flawed Rochester, and for those who are already in love with him.
Houston Press's Art Attack talks about the Girl's Nightmare Out tour at the Murder by the Book bookstore in Houston and interviews Marta Acosta:
Acosta's new book, Dark Companion, strikes a different note, although, as with Casa Dracula, her protagonist isn't exactly typical. "I don't like princess stories," she tells us. "That always seemed very entitled to me." Instead Dark Companion is a modern homage to Jane Eyre. " I [wrote] a gothic, which is a form that hasn't really been written much for young adult fiction. Jane Eyre is a gothic. She's poor, and she goes off to an isolated location. She meets people who are deceiving her and lying to her. The people are much more powerful and richer than she is. So she's got to figure out what she's going to do; she's got to figure out what the lies are, what the deceit is."
Acosta stresses that Dark Companion, which chronicles the adventures of a young girl who wins a scholarship to a posh school, only to realize there's something very, very wrong on campus, is an homage, not a retelling. "I didn't try to do a literal updating of the story because I think Jane Eyre is a brilliant story. If you want to read Jane Eyre, go read Jane Eyre, it's perfect. But I did try to pay homage to Jane Eyre and other gothic novels by using the tropes that I like in gothics. There are elements such as twining, where you've got one thing reflecting another, images of light and dark, symbols of blood, and sinister natural settings. I threw all those in." (Olivia Flores Álvarez)
Fileunder (Netherlands) reviews The Goblin Market's Beneath Far Gondal's Foreign Sky CD:
Zij lieten zich inspireren door de gezusters Brontë, waarvan Emily met haar roman Wuthering Heights de bekendste was. Beneath Far Gondal´s Foreign Sky is zo´n typisch conceptalbum waar over veel is nagedacht. De teksten zijn in een folky sfeertje gezet. De muziek neigt naar perfectie, elke noot staat er bewust. Probleem is wel dat je hier tegen moet kunnen. Ik krijg er jeuk van, want hoe goed ook bedoeld ook, alle emotie wordt als voorverpakte waar gepresenteerd en rauw is een vies woord. Dit zegt veel over mij. Blijkt maar weer dat het folkbakje niet in clichés is te benoemen en dat iedereen er maar in moet stoppen wat hij zelf wil. (Ewie) (Translation)
Sabotage Times is devastated by some Jay Gardner leaving the TV reality Geordie Shore (warning, strong language):
What developed was a beautiful romance, reminiscent of Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester, as Holly would pass up the megaclub excursions to flop out her double Fs and comfort the patient by sucking his cock. (Mick Bower)
Xtra! interviews the artist and poet Danniel Oickle and talks about his new poetry book, My Heart Has Teeth:
What inspired this creation?
My Heart Has Teeth really started as a collection of independent works but grew to be more. I was inspired by William Blake and his use of both images and words to convey ideas. I was also inspired by the Brontës and wanted to open dialogues that are forbidden to me as a man, both sexually and spiritually.
The Star (Malaysia) reviews A Midsummer Tights Dream by Louise Rennison, sequel to Withering Tights:
This is another book in the series featuring Tallulah Casey’s misadventures, this time with some “boy snogging”! Tallulah has been officially enrolled for another term in the Dother Hall performing arts programme, thanks to her performance in Wuthering Heights – A Comedy Musical. Now, all she has to do is to try and keep her focus. But it sure is difficult when there are boys wandering about, especially the boys from Woolfe Academy.... It looks like Tallulah will face another tough year ahead surviving Dother Hall. (Allan Koay)
Lara Schwartz at Open Salon thinks that Brontë's tradition covers almost everything:
Strip away the painstaking details about edible plants, the sometimes heavy-handed social commentary, and the obsessive attention to the rich food used to sedate and distract the Tributes before they are sent to their deaths, and The Hunger Games is an orphan story in the tradition of Dickens and Brontë.
On Bildungsroman the writer Iva-Marie Palmer includes Jane Eyre on her personal top ten books.

Free tickets to see Wuthering Heights 2011 in Rzeszów (Poland) in Gazeta Rzeszów; another Brontë Parsonage Museum visitor on People Should Smile More :); My Bookshelf posts a positive review of Margot Livesey's The Flight of Gemma Hardy; seacreatures and We Play Cottage have just loved Jane Eyre, but Penser has tried unsuccesfully to read; Peached Reviews posts about one of its adaptations, Jane Eyre 1973 and Blog Critiques Cinéma de Marie-Françoise (in French) about Jane Eyre 2011; The Orange Room has visited Haddon Hall (and the Jane Eyre costumes exhibition); Fiction State of Mind reviews Marta Acosta's Dark Company; Thoughts in Progress interviews Joanna Campbell Slan about her new saga Jane Eyre Chronicles and its first book: Death of a Schoolgirl.


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