Misinformation

In the name of all that is good and holy and considered a classic: I about spit my morning cup of coffee all over my computer screen when I saw this. Poor little Emily Bronte probably never even saw a bare shoulder in her whole life. Homegirl was shel.tered. And if you have read this book, possibly a bit unhinged.

Now, don't  get me wrong-- Heathcliff IS a sexy brooding type (if you enjoy fantasizing about tyrannical men with the emotional range of a toddler who may or may not be related to you) and Catherine IS supposed to be a beautiful temptress type... and the two DO fall in love and I guess in some way it's very steamy for about half a page before everything goes to pot and Catherine wills herself to die. So. There's that.

But don't you dare write out 'Wuthering Heights' in the same font you use for romance novels and books about 30 something singles living in Manhattan and make this book look like it belongs next to Fifty Shades of Grey. I haven't been this upset since they made The Scarlet Letter into a movie with the tag line 'Incredibly Sensual'. They might as well have cast Britney Spears as Hester Prynne and the boa constrictor from her pre-kid days as Pearl. I understand trying to get the classics to appeal to younger generations, but come on. I know it's a Justin Beiber world and we just live in it, but let's at the very least give thirteen year olds some kind of credit. In middle school I had a poster of Justin Timberlake on my wall and Jane Eyre on my bedside table.

You're on my list, book illustrators.

My Summer Reading List

Growing up, I read constantly-- usually two or three books at a time, one of which I would keep under my pillow at night, the others I would hide under my skirted bedside table. Before anyone lables me as too prodigious a child, I have to admit that most of the books I read from ages 7- 13 were part of the Babysitters Club series... but that is neither here nor there.

Summers in particular feel like the pages of a book to me--  I used to stay up most nights until 2 or 3 in the morning reading, and then wake up in the morning and read some more.

Nowadays, my laptop is the last thing I look at before I go to bed and the first thing I reach for in the morning. Although I would say I am relatively well-read for my age (I mostly credit this to being an English major), I just don't feel like I read enough. Now that the summer is halfway done, I have finally decided I need to start my reading list and stick to it. Selections are as follows..

Under the Banner of Heaven- This is my current read and it is flipping crazy. I read Into the Wild, another Jon Krakauer book, a few months, and my experience with Under the Banner of Heaven has been exactly the same-- I can't put it down, and when I'm not reading about it, I'm thinking about reading it.

Catcher in the Rye-- I actually have read Catcher in the Rye.. when I was about 13. Ambitious though I was, I definitely did not understand it... or like it. We'll see how the re-read goes.

The Watery Part of the World... I know nothing about this book except that the author knows how to write a good title. Very Ernest Hemingway way of him. Also, I had to get on a waiting list at the library to get it, so you know its good.

The Help-- I read a really interesting interview with the author of this novel a while back, and it has been on a radar for a while. With the movie coming out in August, I would like to try to finish it before then.

Just trying to be honest.