Emily celebrates raking

The Sunday Times publishes a nice review of the two volumes of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls:

Kitty loves this book, the atmospheric and quirky illustrations and the clever way it has been written — the authors manage to pick out little details from each life that make the stories unusual and very readable. Kitty’s favourites are The Brontë Sisters, the deaf motocross star Ashley Fiolek and Frida Kahlo. She particularly loves the detail in the Ashley Fiolek story that her parents realised she was deaf when some pans fell with a loud clatter onto the kitchen floor and the toddler Ashley didn’t seem to notice. And Kitty is mesmerised by Kahlo’s near-death accidents and loves the idea that the Brontë sisters had to go to London to prove they were really women — as no one could believe their books hadn’t been written by men. (Esther Walker)

Congratulations to Janneke de Beer who played Jane Eyre at the Spot! Theater production of the Gordon & Caird Musical in the Netherlands for her award as Best Actress at the Amateur Musical Awards 2017. (Via BD)

As The Herald remembers, there is still a couple of days to vote for your favourite song based on a book or poem in the Book Week Scotland:

[Y]ou can vote for your favourite book-inspired song. (My current top tips are Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush and the utterly bonkers but brilliant Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins, sung by none other than Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy.) (Hardeep Singh Kohli)

Rake, not blow. That's the advice on The Register-Guard:

Since they were invented back in the 1950s, and especially once they came to neighborhoods near you by the 1970s, these nasty blowers have been the source of complaints. They’ve been targeted by proposed bans or restrictions, often without success. It’s easy to trash leaf blowers. Yet they proliferate.
Instead, let’s celebrate raking. And leaves.
“The falling leaves drift by my window,” go the lyrics of the romantic standard crooned by Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Jimmy Rogers. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me,” wrote Emily Brontë in her bittersweet poem. (Peter Laufer)

The Times of India talks about the latest book by Ruskin Bond, The Lone Fox Dancing:

He advised young writers to be simple and original. "Choose subjects closest to you heart and words that are not big but convey the right meaning. Do not show off. My language is simple because I aim for clarity. You will see it in all good writing, such as that of Somerset Maugham and The Brontë Sisters." He described how he started with short stories to make a living out of writing, and how even then, it was tough.

Culturopoing (in French) reviews Jane Campion's The Piano 1993:

Si Jane Campion avoue adorer les Sœurs Brontë et en particulier les Hauts de Hurlevent, c’est plus pour son atmosphère visuelle tourmentée, poussée par la fureur du climat et des éléments, que dans son traitement des personnages. Car, en réalité, The Piano est beaucoup plus érotique que romantique, relisant la littérature à l’orée de l’évolution des mentalités, faisant passer le romantisme et ses héroïnes par le prisme d’une réflexion contemporaine, s’interrogeant sur les pensées entre les lignes, tout ce que dissimule la littérature du 19eme siècle.  (Olivier Rossignot) (Translation)

A debutante at the Bal des Débutantes 2017 and Brontëite, according to Vanity Fair (Italy):

Costanza Diaz della Vittoria Pallavicini: «Ho appena finito Cime Tempestose di Emily Brontë, l’ho divorato. Film… Qualcosa di romantico, tipo Le pagine della nostra vita con Ryan Gosling e Rachel McAdams». (Andrea Tomasi) (Translation)

The World of my Green Heart reviews Lyndsay Faye's Jane Steele.