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When someone asks me, what is my favorite book, I answer “Wuthering Heights”. In one of the student organization I belong to we have had book-nights a few times. The first time I took this book with me, and someone actually asked, why this book. I just answered, that whenever I move (and as a student, I have moved a lot!), this is the book that always comes with me! My history with “Wuthering Heights” goes back into the year 2002 or 2003, when we had to read it for our English Literature course. It was out from all the libraries so I found one from the antique bookshop, which is great, because now I have my own personal copy =) Since 2004 I have read it every year at least once. Have already done it in 2011 and not long ago in June. I think I still don't know, why exactly I love this book so much! Is it the plot, the characters, the setting, the era or something else. Or perhaps all of these together. I'm not an educated literature aesthete, especially when I'm not read...

Considering it's a mere 2,5 months until the thing is set to come out (probably more like two months, as it's supposed to premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which I think is in the first half of September - don't quote me on that), I really hope there's no more changes to the casting of Wuthering Heights (2011). This doesn't look Twilighty at all, no siree ... (Source: Charleybrown at Enchanted Serenity ) According to the little information available, at least with the amount of research I'm willing to do on the subject at the moment (it's my birthday, I'm allowed) ... the cast list is surprisingly lacking. I don't mean it because I don't really recognise any of the names based on names alone - when I look up pictures in a bit, I reckon there will be a lot of "oh it's HIM/HER!" (no good with names) - but because they only list nine people. Where's Nellie? Where are everyone else? Like ... Hindley? Cathy/Edgar's ...

Wuthering Heights has been adapted for the screen many times, not even counting spin-offs like Sparkhouse or parody clips and such. Here is a chronological list according to IMDb : Wuthering Heights (1920) Wuthering Heights (1939) Wuthering Heights (1948) Wuthering Heights (1954) Wuthering Heights (1962) Wuthering Heights (1967) Wuthering Heights (1978) Wuthering Heights (1970) Hurlevent (1985) - French Arashi ga oka (1988) - Japanese Wuthering Heights (1992) Wuthering Heights (1998) Wuthering Heights (2003) Cime tempestose (2004) - Italian Wuthering Heights (2009) Wuthering Heights (2011) The last one says 2011, gasp! So ... what do we know about the latest version, number 16?

This week will be celebrating everything Wuthering Heights . Wiley windy moors? Check! Passionate love story? Check! Guest posts from fabulous people? Check! (Well, okay, I'm hoping to receive the ones I'm waiting for ASAP, otherwise it's "person" rather than "people", to be fair.) Because I've already gone through and reviewed all the Wuthering Heights adaptations I have, as well as reading the book, here's a re-cap of those posts: Book review: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) Paper/essay review: Witches and Devilry in Wuthering Heights by Jamie Freeman (2011) Miniseries review: Wuthering Heights (1978) Miniseries review: Wuthering Heights (1998) Miniseries review: Wuthering Heights (2009), part 1 / part 2 Miniseries review: Sparkhouse (2002)

Crazy about Cathy? Hankerin' for Heathcliff? Join the Wuthering Week here at The Squeee , 11-15 July 2011! If Wuthering Heights is your thing, or even if it isn't, join in! I'm looking for fellow Brontëites to guest blog about Wuthering Heights in one way or another during this week. Love it? Hate it? Both work! Please email me ASAP at blog@traxy.co.uk to sign up! :) Special guest during the week will be author Kay Woodward (who wrote the smashing Jane Airhead ), whose new young adult novel Wuthering Hearts is out in July. She'll be making a stop on her blog tour here on July 13th. Can't wait! I'll be posting a review of Wuthering Hearts and anything else is up to you. :)