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No doubt this isn‘t a hot take, but I found this to be a horrible story filled with horrible characters behaving horribly to each other except for of course Mrs. Dean and Mr. Lockwood. Much like her sister did, I think Emily concocted a prototype novel of the modern paranormal teen romance genre. I‘m grateful to have experienced it and understand how literature evolved from the Victorian era, but I think I‘m done with the Brontë sisters.

#GratefulHarvest #scarf Not many opportunities to wear these in the desert, but I treasure them . My mom got me the circular Bronte one.The other , was a gift from a friend from years ago. She made it to match my olive green metallic rain coat , that I wore until it basically fell apart, back when I lived in the Bay Area.

I can‘t take credit for this hilarious photo; it‘s from @ CHIMPSINSOCKS on Twitter. 😹

This was so much. The characters were over the top but I loved it anyways. I actually found some of it to be darkly funny.

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?

Check out my article about Wuthering Heights as ghost story for Halloween:

https://www.johncadamsreviews.com/single-post/wuthering-heights-as-ghost-story

#EmilyBronte #HappyHalloween #WutheringHeights #Cathy #Heathcliff #ghoststory #stories #scary #JohnCAdamsReviews #JohnCAdams #Halloween #Novel #spooky #Book #Halloween2021 #article

Well, now that @TrishB has opened her birthday bookmark I can show the one that I bought for myself at the same time.

The only problem is that I get the worst ‘ear worm‘ whenever I even THINK of this song. I‘ll now be warbling around the house:

🎶 Out on the wily, windy moors
We‘d roll and fall in green…🎶

🤣🤣

Excellently written and the nature writing was stunning, but this is not a romance! I feel like popular culture let me down. Or, as Claire O'Callaghan said much better in Emily Brontë Reappraised:

“I felt that the level of violence Heathcliff perpetrates was hugely troubling, and I couldn‘t understand why this rather demonic male lead (sorry, Heathcliff- ites) was celebrated as a romantic figure.“

#taintedlove #littensdressedinblood #classics

My article about Wuthering Heights as ghost story is up on the John C Adams Reviews website now!

https://www.johncadamsreviews.com/single-post/wuthering-heights-as-ghost-story

#EmilyBronte #Bronte #WutheringHeights #Cathy #Heathcliff #ghoststory #stories #spirit #JohnCAdamsReviews #JohnCAdams #WhyNotWednesday #Novel #Fiction #Book #books #article

Big fan of trying to work out what book or movie we are talking about

I don‘t know y‘all… I‘m just a Jane Eyre kind of girl I guess. This book was okay but it‘s the sort of story that leaves you nobody to root for, each and every character being reprehensible except the unreliable narrator and I just don‘t find it all that interesting. The Corrections by Franzen is another of this type that comes to mind, I hated that one more than this one, but had a similar impatience with both. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hi, everyone! I wanted to make a few quick comments.
1. I‘m still getting used to & trying to remember posting here.
2. I‘ve decided I‘m no longer going to post reviews here. Reviews will be on my Goodreads and my bookstagram. I will, however, keep rating books here based on my opinion of them and Litsy‘s features.
3. I started school on August 30, so posts here may really be few and far between. But please bear with me through all this!

Book 205/2021. Finished 23/8/21. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This edition is gorgeous

#arc #netgalley #wutheringheights

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
#WutheringHeights #EmilyBronte #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookbag #bookbags #bookbinding #bookbeau #bookblog #bookblogger #bookbackpack #Classics #Fiction #Romance #Gothic 💝💝💝

I love Downton Abbey, so I listened to this audiobook because Joanne Froggatt who played Anna Bates was the narrator. She did a fantastic job! The story itself is deliciously Gothic, so dark. I found myself enjoying this version more than the print version I read in high school.

My article about Wuthering Heights as ghost story is up on the John C Adams Reviews website now!

https://www.johncadamsreviews.com/single-post/wuthering-heights-as-ghost-story

#EmilyBronte #Bronte #WutheringHeights #Cathy #Heathcliff #ghoststory #stories #spirit #JohnCAdamsReviews #JohnCAdams #WhyNotWednesday #Novel #Fiction #Book #books #article

My article about Wuthering Heights as ghost story is up on the John C Adams Reviews website now!

https://www.johncadamsreviews.com/single-post/wuthering-heights-as-ghost-story

#EmilyBronte #Bronte #WutheringHeights #Cathy #Heathcliff #ghoststory #stories #spirit #JohnCAdamsReviews #JohnCAdams #WhyNotWednesday #Novel #Fiction #Book #books #article

@ozma.of.oz #sundayfunday
Better late than never when the prompts are so fun!
1. Elena Ferrante
2.The Brontes first published their books under a pseudonym,which is always surprising to me.
3.No, if they want to keep to themselves,that's fine,though I would love to meet Elena Ferrante!

Happy Birthday to Emily Brontë 🖤

*27 Dance
17 July 2021 was Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever Hobart
#JulyJourneys
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

One of my faves!

1000% me while listening to Wuthering Heights on Audible.

The entire middle part with the kids and all the similar names confused the life outta me.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I can't even tell you the number of times I had to press rewind and had to keep looking up the characters on Google.

Not quite sure what to think here.

I liked how dark and dreary this story was, definitely not what I typically like to read. I didn't like any of the characters except Mr. Lockwood, Hareton, and young Heathcliff.

The entire middle part of the book dragged.... I really didn't care for the story of Cathy and her cousins.

But the beginning and very end of the story about Katherine and Heathcliff caught my attention.

3.5 stars.

Starting to get really bored with this audiobook.... way to much about young Kathy and Heathcliff. It's definitely being dragged out. 🙄

I'm struggling to finish it. I really enjoyed the first half so this is disappointing.

Wuthering Heights brought out a lot of unpleasant emotions in me and I thought that was… FANTASTIC! Emily Brontë‘s characters get on your nerves and the story is so toxic and convoluted and that‘s how she intended it, so the more frustrating the read, the more successful she was in conveying her story. Full review on www.anushareflects.com

This started off so weird but picked up a bit. I feel like this one may need another go at a later time.

June Book 17/25 #LitsyLove #Bookspinbingo

⭐️⭐️.

I‘m so sorry for those who loved this book. Maybe classics isn‘t for me or this one isn‘t. I‘m sorry .. I‘m not giving up. On to the next…

For some reason I have two copies of this book, both of which I love the covers. Unfortunately this one wasn‘t for me and I really don‘t understand the great reviews. It‘s taken me ages to finish and I was mainly bored throughout. Another one ticked off that I‘ve been meaning to read forever but not a pick from me

This book was so different than what I had expected. Dark and gloomy and haunted, I loved reading about the Earnshaws, the Lintons, and the Wuthering Heights that saw everything. The only thing I didn‘t really enjoy was Heathcliff and the racist stereotypes enforced through his character, which is enough to bring this book to a 4/5.

Ha!! 🤣🤣🤣

I was walking around my neighbourhood when I came across a box out front saying “Free Books & Cd‘s”. I‘ve decided to read some of the classics, last night I ordered some cheap 2nd hand Sylvia Plath and Oscar Wilde. And today I found this gem in the box for free! Such a kind gesture giving away free books ❤️
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#book #books #read #reading #bookshelf #classic #classics #classicbooks #brontesisters #emilybronte #wutheringheights #newbook #romance

As far as classics go, the story moved along rather quickly and wasn't bogged down with too much formal English of the time. It was like a soap opera where you pretty much hate everyone. This is romantic if you like people who make poor decisions then blame others for those actions and act spiteful to their loved ones and THEIR loved ones, too. It's not MY preferred sort of romance, but different strokes for different folks, I guess. I did ⬇️

I wanted to show you beautiful people my newest painting! So bright and carefree. I had fun with this one.

I'm gonna start a small painting tonight while listening to Wuthering Heights on Audible.

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" - Catherine

Very much intrigued by this read. I like it so far.

Heathcliff‘s description of marrying for money instead of love: “You might as well plant an Oak in a flowerpot and expect it to thrive.” Amazing that this was written in the 1800s and so much of it still rings true.

My stack of classics. Which of these is your favourite?

#Classics #WutheringHeights #JaneEyre #AliceinWonderland #Tenderisthenight #TheScarletLetter #BookStack #CollinsClassics #Bookworm #Reading

Sending off the Brontës for now. #thatsclassic

For those of you who read along this month, what‘s one emoji you would use to describe the book?

I‘ll go first: ?

I read this in high school and remember enjoying it, but I couldn‘t remember a lot of the details now. I decided to do a reread when it was picked this month for #thatsclassic - I think it‘s definitely worth reading and is oddly compelling, but I must say all of the characters are despicable people. Still, it gives off a certain atmosphere and it‘s definitely a different type of story for this time period. These oddballs definitely don‘t follow ⬇️

I have a soft spot for Wuthering Heights since it was the first (and for a long time only) Bronte book I read. Plus I grew up very close to Haworth and the Parsonage museum (pictured)... I should read more of the Bronte sisters really!

This book is full of terrible characters. Even the narrators make you question whether they are reliable. The love isn‘t tender or romantic, but possessive and consuming. Still I do love this one 🤣

#ThatsClassic

Hey #thatsclassic friends!

We‘re wrapping up our time with Wuthering Heights and I thought, while this book has notoriously contentious characters it still delivers pretty great quotes.

I love discovering which classics these famous quotes come from. Do you have a memorable quote from this book?

Finished my reread of Wuthering Heights for our April pick for #thatsclassic and I hate the characters as much as I did the first time 😂

I normally can appreciate unlikeable characters who are deliberately written that way, but it so well executed that I find nothing redeemable in them lol

I thought I‘d get something different out of it 10 years later and I‘d say my take was essentially the same

Checking off my #bookspinbingo board

Second read and still don't understand why it is my mother's favorite book. I tried mom. Is Heathcliff a result of a liason between Mr. Earnshaw and another woman? Is that why he prefers Heathcliff over his legitimate children? Why is Nelly Dean so dependable to those three insufferable, bratty beings? Why is she so loyal to their children? Why didn't Nelly kill Heathcliff when he was hitting Catherine? Did Bronte cry when Miss Catherine died?

Well!
I think I would have been way more into this if I'd read it when I was young and full of ~emotions and feelings~ but now I'm a cranky old lady who just wants to shout at these characters to get over themselves and stop being such a bunch of hyperdramatic crybabies, seriously.
Definitely worthy of being called a classic, and I did enjoy it and I'm very glad I read it!
But my goodness, the drama!

#thatsclassic @Annie1215

Time for our weekly check in #thatsclassic

How‘s everyone doing?

My question for you this week...
Do you find Heathcliff to lean more in to evil or romantic?

I guess there‘s layers, but I‘m dying to hear if there are different opinions on this one.

Ok, Bronte...let‘s see if you live up to the hype

Hey everyone 👋🏻

I‘ve been a bit MIA, just got home from a week long visit to my family so I‘m a bit behind.

Checking in on my #thatsclassic readers. How are you all doing?

Share one word to describe how you‘re feeling about Heathcliff, Cathy and Edgar

Can‘t wait to hear from you!

Lots of classics this month! April‘s #thatsclassic pick is Wuthering Heights, first time read for me and been on my TBR forever, super excited for this

Happy April #thatsclassic readers!

We‘re on a Brontë streak! And moving from one dysfunctional relationship to another ?

I can‘t wait to see what everyone thinks.

Do you have a preferred Brontë sister? Do you prefer a different 19th century writer? (Do I have that timing right?)

As always, let me know if this is a first read or reread for you. This is my second reading!

Happy reading!