Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
I’m trying to fill in the gaps of Classics I Never Read, and I had never read any of the Brontës. What better place to start than Wuthering Heights? If nothing else, it would give me an opportunity to care a little more about the new movie, which looks very pretty. But reader: I hated it. I’m glad I read it, and I love that I have an opinion now, and I get that this is about toxicity and bad choices and enabling and finding […]
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
Iykyk- this novel brings to life Caity Weaver’s infamous and amazing 2018 tweet about the Canadians ice ‘skating’ to Moulin Rouge, just switch it up with Americans and seven different covers of Wicked Game. Katarina Shaw has always been determined to become an Olympic ice dancer. With her childhood sweetheart Heath Rocha as her partner, it looks as if their championship dreams are destined to come true. But the road to gold never does run smooth and their partnership seems to come to a messy […]
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
One my fellow book club members selected The Favorites for our March read because the Olympics have just concluded and the latest film adaptation of Wuthering Heights has been out for awhile, The Favorites being a modern adaptation of Wuthering but Heathcliff and Cathy are Heath and Katarina, an ice dancing pair hoping to make it to the top of the Olympic podium. Katarina and her family take Heath in just as Katarina is beginning her journey to skating. Starting as a singles skater, Katarina […]
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
Bingo: Play (for the sports angle since ice dancing, though everyone is very serious about it) (Bingo #6, 2nd row complete) This novel came on my radar last year on one of those anticipated novels of 2025 because of the description, and I checked out the author’s They Never Learn as a result while waiting for this one – I liked that one quite a bit but didn’t love it. Finally picked this one up – if you love The Cutting Edge, Daisy Jones and […]
Fifteen Wild Decembers: A Novel by Karen Powell
Fifteen Wild Decembers tells the story of the Brontë family through the eyes of Emily, from 1825 when she first goes away to school, to her death in 1848. From their childhood tales of the fantastical island of Gondal, to the events in their lives that shaped them and their literary outputs, Fifteen Wild December offered a glimpse into their lives. It was an alright book; I’d love to rate it any more warmly than that, but it didn’t really inspire much in me. I […]
Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories by Lily Tuck
We have a Heathcliff problem. We fantasize on the regular about a brooding hulk smoldering just out of view. He’s there- he’s part of the nature of the area, and we are going to conquer that nature. We are going to nurture the brutish man. We are going to fix him, and he’s going to rescue us. Except, we know the truth. We are going to ruin ourselves trying to capture him, and it isn’t going to change him in the slightest. Our narrator in Heathcliff […]
