That book made me want to read

Jupiter Courier celebrates tomorrow's International Book Day:

"Jane Eyre" was the first real book I could call my own.
I still have the battered paperback copy — I think it came from my school's library, an extra one they were replacing — and I reread it every year or two. I remember reading it for the first time between lessons at school and looking up words I didn't know in a thick, red-bound dictionary.
That book made me want to read.
Admittedly, I already was a bookworm when I received Charlotte Brontë's Gothic novel, but owning that book made reading something more than just a school assignment or a way to pass the time. Books became knowledgeable friends. (Hillary Copsey)

The Star (Malaysia) joins in:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë:
Long before the Twilight Saga and its brooding hero, there was Brontë’s magnificent Wutherng Heights that gives a much (much!) more convincing account of passionate love in the story of the tormented Heathcliff, who falls wildly in forbidden love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor.

The Telegraph & Argus remembers that this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show (May 22-26) will include a Brontë garden (designed by Tracy Foster):

The wild moorland landscape that inspired the Brontës will be recreated at this year’s Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show in a tribute to the famous authors.
The Brontës’ Yorkshire Garden will be created by the county’s tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire, and will be based on the scenery around Haworth, which inspired the Brontës.
The garden will help commemorate the 165th anniversary of the publication of Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey.

 The worst has happened. The Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon has reached the Daily Mail:

The gothic romance  fantasy of a young, innocent woman being seduced by a powerful, older man who owns fabulous real estate have been around since the dawn of popular fiction: just think of Jane Eyre. (Rowan Pelling)

South Wales Evening Post talks about Jasper Fforde and remembers his first book:

Previous adventures in his Bookworld series have seen his heroine, Thursday Next, get to the bottom of the kidnapping of Jane Eyre from the pages of the Brontë novel.

Redlands Daily Facts lists some new books at the local library, including:

"The Flight of Gemma Hardy" by Margot Livesey is the story of a girl orphaned in the 1960s first by her parents and then by her kind uncle. She is left in the care of an aunt who despises her and packs her up to boarding school. Gemma prevails again and again through her obstacles and shows a perseverance of spirit that has you rooting for her every step of the way, very reminiscent of Jane Eyre.

Maine Sun Journal looks at different toponyms in the state:

Take Meddybemps. Though it might make a fitting locale for an A. A. Milne story or a Brontë novel, the town’s name is not English. It comes from a Passamaquoddy term meaning “plenty of alewives,” that originally referred to the bountiful fish found in Meddybemps Lake.  (Maxwell Mogensen)

A Jane Eyre 2011 screening in Findlay, OH;  Lit Lovers & Corset and El Club Pickwick (in Spanish) post reviews of the movie; European Literary Scene Examiner discusses tragic heroines in Brontë and Austen among others; Reading is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac, Random Junk (who seems to like the book but not Jane), Targ z książkami (in Polish) and asterischi (in Italian) post about Jane Eyre; Ellen and Jim Have a Blog, Two reviews Maureen Corrigan's Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading; The New Noblewoman publishes an article about Charlotte Brontë's poem Evening Solace; The Official Site of Julianne Donaldson visits Haworth; The Arts Fuse reviews The Flight of Gemma Hardy; Miss Broadway Dork uploads her version of Gordon & Caird's Jane Eyre's Painting Her Portrait; Let your Imagination Run Wild posts about Wuthering Heights.