Finding Each Other in Imperfection

The Guardian interviews the writer Sadie Jones:

Lisa O'Kelly: What kind of reader were you as a child?
S.J.:You read what was on the shelves when there was nothing else to do. There was no YA, so your mother would say, “Now you’re old enough for Emily Brontë”, or, “Oh, Du Maurier will be a good way in.” So I read everything. I never liked school stories, perhaps because I hated school. I loved CS Lewis, Frances Hodgson Burnett and those very moral Victorian novels. Children like books about good and bad.

Bella Naija (Nigeria) local entrepreneur interviews Uzo Orimalade:

Charlotte Brontë‘s Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books and is a classic. A love story with the lead characters conquering horrible past experiences and still finding each other in imperfection is just so beautiful.

In The Sunday Times, a brief review of The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea:

Rumours that Jon was responsible for the death of his first wife reach her. She hears strange noises from the farmhouse loft, which she is forbidden to enter. Is this some Icelandic version of Jane Eyre in which a madwoman lurks in the attic? Or do ghosts haunt the household? In a sense they do, although the truths Rosa eventually uncovers in this compelling, atmospheric novel are more material and more disturbing than her imaginings. (Nick Rennison) 

 Also in The SundayTimes, the week's essential new CD releases include:

The Unthanks
Lines: Parts One, Two & Three
Rabble Rouser

If ECM were a folk label, you could imagine Rachel and Becky Unthank’s wispy melancholia at the top of the roster. An ambitious three-CD set — also available as individual discs — roams from poems by Emily Brontë, recorded on her piano, to a collaboration with the actress Maxine Peake. Not for the first time, though, the dearth of contrast in the arrangements begins to pall. (Clive Davis)

An album that Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) also recommends:

One is based on texts from the First World War. A third songwriter Emily Brontë - on the author's own 19th century piano. The sisters' voices sound as softly veiled as and the music sounds in as heavily ordained minor. (Translation)

Le Petit Bleu (France) interviews the BMX racer Maël Levay:

Last book read?
" The Highs of Stormwind " by Émilie Brontë. A classic to read really. ( Translation )

Il Giornale (Italy) reviews an Italian translation of The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner:

 Sukey Bond, the heroine girl of The Real Heart, has the determination of a Jane Eyre, reinforced by a good dose of unconsciousness. ( Daniele Abbiati ) ( Translation )

A local wedding with a Jane Eyre reading in The Aiken Standard.