Rochester, the rock star and Heathcliff, the emo boy

July 28, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
Reader and friend of BrontëBlog's Stephanie has alerted us to the existence of yet another Jane Eyre retelling to be published, Jane by April Lindner. From Publishers Marketplace : Julie Scheina at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has bought English professor April Lindner's debut YA novel Jane, for the Poppy imprint. The story is a contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre, in which a Sarah Lawrence dropout-turned-nanny falls in love with her employer, an iconic rock star on the brink of a c

Music Review: Thursday - Common Existence (Blogcritics.org)

February 11, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
Screamo pioneers Thursday calm down on the screaming and focus more on expanding their musical creativity. New Jersey post-hardcore act Thursday has a lot to be proud about. Being credited with bringing the screamo genre to the mainstream level as well as have been labeled in 2004 as SPIN magazine’s “The Next Big Thing” are just a couple of reasons why. This six-piece did not invent the screamo ...