Jane Eyre being like Ambien in high school

 "Fantastic" ideas for New Year walks in The Telegraph & Argus:

The Brontë Connection, Haworth
To really stretch your legs, there’s nothing like a wintry walk out onto the Brontë moors above Haworth. Follow The Bronte Connection, a 4.5-mile hike, linking three important sites connected to Emily Brontë’s novel ‘Wuthering Heights’.

Not walking but running in this selection of the best photos from the Auld Lang Syne fell race 2021 as runners battle moors of Brontë Country, published in The Yorkshire Post.

Walking or running, behave. Otherwise, you'll be addressed by Yorkshire's angriest people in 2021 according to Yorkshire Live:

Sheep farmers who found a dead lamb surrounded by plastic near to a popular Haworth tourist destination vented their fury with a grim message on the gate next to the animal.
The gate was painted with the words “Thanks for all the wet wipes + plastic, yummy” after the lamb’s body was found lying next to lots of discarded plastic.
The sheep was found in a layby near Stanbury, which acts as an informal parking area for visitors who come to the hills around Brontë country, including Brontë waterfall and Top Withins. (Ben Abbiss)

Also in Leeds Live a list of things that annoy Yorkshire people:

"Do you live near the Emmerdale village?"
There's tonnes of great films and TV shows filmed in Yorkshire but most people associate the county with just one.
Try Harry Potter, Kes, The Railway Children, Peaky Blinders, Wuthering Heights and Happy Valley for starters.

And the Valley Ranks the best albums of 2021: 

7 No Medium | Rosali

Look, it’s a country album by an artist from the northeast and a title taken from a Charlotte Brontë novel. Either you’re going to accept what country music can be, or you won’t.  (Adam Henderson)

If you are confused, read this previous post of ours when we already mentioned this album. 

Things we learned in 2021, according to Mental Floss:

51. and 52. We learned about the existence of a "lost library" of British literature - and that Sotheby's postponed its sale.

The so-called Honresfield Library included original poems written by Emily Brontë in her own handwriting. We also learned that, if the public outcry is great enough, auction house Sotheby’s is willing to postpone the sale of cultural treasures. A group of British institutions have teamed together to try and raise enough money to buy the library, with an end goal of placing the artifacts at museums and other institutions. (Jon Mayer and Justin Dodd) 

Probably not the best description of Jane Eyre in an article in The New York Times on bedtime stories:

Paul Barrett, a 59-year-old consultant in Denver, started listening to bedtime stories early in the pandemic to try out something new. As a frequent business traveler, Mr. Barrett used the Breethe app to help him relax in different time zones. Seeing new bedtime stories pop up in the library piqued his interest.

“I started with the classics. I remember Jane Eyre being like Ambien in high school,” he joked. “After not traveling for so long, I’ve been listening to destination-related stories.” (Hillary Richard)

News AKMI lists their favourite reads of 2021:

Praying with Jane Eyre by Vanessa Zoltan

A deeply felt celebration of a classic novel–and a reflection on the ways our favorite books can shape and heal us.

Our favorite books keep us company, give us hope, and help us find meaning in a chaotic world. In this fresh and relatable work, atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan blends memoir and personal growth as she grapples with the notions of family legacy and identity through the lens of her favorite novel, Jane Eyre. Informed by the reading practices of medieval monks and rabbinic scholars from her training at the Harvard Divinity School and filtered through the pages of Jane Eyre as well as Little Women, Harry Potter, and The Great Gatsby, Zoltan explores what it means to have a birthright that you want to both honor and leave behind. Brimming with a lifelong love of classic literature and the tenderness of self-reflection, the book also reveals simple techniques for reading any work as a sacred text–from Virginia Woolf to Anne of Green Gables to baseball scorecards.

Whether you’re an avowed Eyrehead or simply a curious reader looking for a richer connection with the written word, this deeply felt and inspiring book will light the way to a more intimate appreciation for whatever books you love to read.

Carrie: This nonfiction book gave me new ways to think about reading and spirituality in general and deepened my relationship to my favorite book. Every page was a “WOW” moment. (Lynzie Montague)

The Guardian and The Irish Times look into the books of 2022:

Untitled by Nino Haratischvili, translated by Charlotte Collins, Scribe
The follow-up to 2020’s bestselling Georgian family saga The Eighth Life will be a Wuthering Heights-style romance. (Justine Jordan and Katy Guest)

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys (William Collins, May) by Miranda Seymour is an intimate biography of the acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. (Martin Doyle)

On The Sisters' Room, Maddalena De Leo talks about her novel Maria Branwell. La Madre delle Sorelle Brontë.