Essay

I almost did a double take when I read that the new film adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is being released this weekend to coincide with Valentine's Day. Seriously? This book is many things — brilliant, intense and unforgettable — but a date-night romance it is not. At least not in any traditional sense. For many years, I put off reading this book, but I finally tackled it during the pandemic when I had more time to read. I don't know what took me so long.

I am ringing in the new year by launching my book blog — a little corner of the Internet to call my own. A quick introduction: I’ve been a passionate reader for my entire life. One of my earliest recollections is memorizing The Cat in the Hat  after countless bedtime readings and then pretending to read it aloud to my family. In school, I always loved reading and writing, so I majored in English and went on to have a two-decade career as a journalist. These days, I work on t