A Farewell To Alex

It was with great shock that all us sisters recently learned of the imminent departure of Sister Alex. He has decided to return to the moors of Old Angleterre to take up his quill where he left off (much to our chagrin).

Alex has been a fabulous and rather tall member of The Brontë Sisters' Bookclub and we are going to have a bitch of a time replacing him! Thanks Alex for all the fun times, the highs and lows, the laughs, the tears...We will miss you, you old smugs, but keep in touch (via this blog, par exemple).

Always remember, never forget: you are a Brontë!

Your sistaz XX

dobbsie would if he could...

hey guys, who posted the link below? it doesn't seem to work. you will have to copy the address in the the 'link' box provided on the posting page.

sort it out, quick sticks, as i can hardly wait to see it!

dobbsie.

Dobbsy will no doubt be eyeing the gowns with a view to a future drag version of Book Club.

The ideal future Bronte Sisters book?

I have actually read this book. It did the rounds some years ago as a dirty paper back found in a second hand bookshop in Glebe. It is not fiction, per se but down and dirty gay porn. The climax has the gay character gang raped by a couple of well hung black men. No stereotypes there...

 

Come on, please tell, who recommended this book? 

Dobbsie.

This book was recommended to me when I was updating my Bronte Sisters reading list on my Facebook account (well, if we can have a blog, I can see no reason why we shouldn't have a Wastebook presence too)... could this be the perfect future Bronte Sisters book? Or does some dodgy database somewhere think that all gay men are interested in is crime, sex and pathology? Are we interested in anything else?

About The Back Passage:

"A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective — all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait — Edward “Mitch” Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it’s with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they’re not busy boffing each other."

wuthering heights

Weekly Feature!

This is the very first week of a new weekly feature on Bronte Sisters Blog.

And what better way to start than with the original version of 'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush.

Check it out. Every week we will feature a different 'performer' doing their version of 'Wuthering Heights'. But for now, here is Kate.

To whet your appetites, here is the first verse which you will need as Kate is unintelligible

Out on the wiley, windy moors

We'd roll and fall in green.

You had a temper like my jealousy

Too hot, too greedy.

How could you leave me,

When I needed to possess you?

I hated you. I loved you, too. 

Bad dreams in the night

You told me I was going to lose the fight,

Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering

Wuthering Heights.

Congratulations!

Congratulations, we have a winner! Sadly, though we could not get Maggie to supply cabernet jelly. She only does quince jelly. To collect your prize (whoever you are, but I suspect it is Noelsey) send a self addressed, stamped envelope to PO Box 490, Surry Hills, 2010.

"Branwell" for a pack of Cabernet Jelly! is it Maggie Beer's?
What if I've only read 5 of the books??

Results of "the poorest excuse" poll are in!

Thanks to all members and non-members who took part in our recent poll. The poll has now closed and the results can be viewed on the right-hand side of the blog.

Hello Sistahs!

Hey Girls,
sorry havent replied earlier - have never done a facebook/blog thingy ever (honest!) so had to get my little head around it (sitting by the fireplace watching a dvd is about as technological as i get up here on the moors).
Sorry that the rest of you havent got friends or migraines and have to pass your time discussing books to get through life. As I dont have any friends or migraines due on July 4th, Im voting for that day to pass the time with my lovely literary sistahs - Ta, Jase.
And I love the idea of a dressups Dobbsy. When's Bastille day? I'll come as Carla Bruni. Otherwise there is Hillary Clinton if we decide to do a Yankee Doodle theme.
I've ordered a few copies of the book in for the shop, should be here this week, so if you need a copy, call me first and I'll let you know if its ready to pick up.
July 4th also give a bit more time to read the book.
XOX noel

June bookclub

Good evening Bronte sisters! This month's book is "Dreams of Speaking" by Gail Jones. I chose it because it has a Japanese guy in it called Mr Sakamoto. He meets a girl called Alice, who gets off on the aesthetics of technology. Apparently they are both geographically displaced. Settings include Perth and Paris and Tokyo. I am thinking of doing dinner on Friday 27th June or the following weekend on the 4th of July. Any preferences? JASE

What's going on with bookclub this month, anyway?

Just wanted to ask...what is going on with bookclub this month? What are we reading? When is it? Jason?

A big thank you to Mac and Alex

Thank you Mac for setting up this little blog for us to jot things down that come to mind or are best not said. And thank you Alex for hosting on Friday night. The baked pumpkin and baked garlic cloves were delicious, though I was a little less sure of your crumbed fish, again. Nevertheless, your chosen book was wonderful, this time. Skin Lane was highly recommended by all Bronte's in attendance without headaches or friends. Jase (j-ko) x