Emily Bronte's 195th Birthday - 'Wuthering Heights' Love

Emily Bronte's 195th birthday was yesterday; the poet and novelist was born on July 30th, 1818. She only lived to be 30, and unfortunately, she only left the world one novel, the masterful Wuthering Heights. Today's post is all about Wuthering Heights, which - if I absolutely had to choose only one favorite book - I would call my favorite book ever.





My library has this graphic novel version. It's awesome.





This, clearly, is my least favorite cover ever.



This isn't in and of itself a bad cover. It's just part of that trend where they tried to make a bunch of classics look like sequels to Twilight and stuck them in the YA section.





I got The Heights from a "secret Santa" blogger exchange, and I really liked it.



Haven't read Wuthering Heights yet? You can get it free for Kindle, so now you have no excuse!

Everand (Scribd): https://www.everand.com/audiobook/1039689816/The-Sisters-Bronte

Kobo, Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/sisters-bronte-the?sId=6a01a41a-6954-46e2-92b7-715ecb984101&ssId=rkt46HsVt7MIaCMsbQc2V&cPos=1

Ready For the Next Blog Hop? Thanks for the Books event

Hopping by from the Coffin Hop? See Monday's giveaway post here.

As much fun as we're having with the CoffinHop, we don't want the fun to end with All Saints' Day, right? Right. To that end, I present the Thanks for the Books Blog Hop, November 1-14, hosted by Grace Fonseca at Livre de Amour.

To enter the giveaway, follow Pagan Spirits book blog through Google Friend Connect, then leave a comment on this post, or any post that debuted during the contest period (November 1-14, 2011). Please include an e-mail address with your comment so I can contact you if you win. I am in the U.S., but both U.S. and international submissions will be accepted. The winner will be chosen randomly.

The prize is a grab bag of three paperback books:

Steamlust: Steampunk Erotic Romance, edited by Kristina Wright
The Transformation by Natasha Rostova - Erotica
The Heights: A Contemporary Imagining of Wuthering Heights by Brian James - Young Adult Romantic Fiction

My 'Secret Santa' Rocks!

This year I took part in the Book Bloggers Holiday Swap. I sent out a holiday gift to a book blogger. Since I happened to know she loved YA novels and chocolate, I sent her Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Twilight: The Graphic Novel. For some fun little extras I included a bookmark, Harry Potter stickers, and a Twilight blank journal. I hope she liked it! She may not know this yet, but she's also getting a package of young adult titles from AG Press--one of the perks of being an editor.

Giving was the fun part, but today I received a gift from my book blogger Secret Santa. She turned out to be Mariah from A Reader's Adventure.

She sent me:

*The Heights by Brian James, young adult, contemporary retelling of Wuthering Heights (which just happens to be one of my all-time favorites!)
*A bookmark for Tera Lynn Childs' Forgive My Fins
*A bookmark for Suzanne Young's Naughty List Series, signed by Suzanne Young herself
*Two stickers for The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

Mariah darling, your gifts were thoughtful and are truly appreciated. (How did she know I love stickers?) I had so much fun with the Book Blogger Holiday Swap, I'll do it again next year.