Book Of A Lifetime: Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte: To select the book of a lifetime is no easy task. Masterpieces clamour from all sides. My own shortlist would include Moby-Dick and Heart of Darkness, both watery tales, both dominated by men who are huge, flawed colossi. My book of a lifetime, however, is Wuthering Heights, in which another towering figure bestrides a wild place, and incarnates the elemental principle of storm. [Independent]
US teacher is suspended for letting pupils read bestseller: An Indiana teacher who used a much lauded bestseller, The Freedom Writers Diary, to try to inspire under-performing high-school students has been suspended from her job without pay for 18 months. [Guardian]
JK Rowling says no to age banding on children’s books: JK Rowling has joined the growing revolt against publishers’ plans to brand children’s books with “appropriate” age bands. [Guardian]
Conflicting claims over Andre Norton’s will: Andre Norton, one of science fiction’s most prolific female writers, intrigued her readers by creating hundreds of fantasy worlds during her 70 years of writing. And in a decision that may have been either accidental or calculated, when she died three years ago she left her friends and fans a final puzzle: who should control the rights to her more than 130 books, including the popular “Witch World” series. [San Francisco Chronicle]
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