Have you seen our YA spring preview over on Bookish.com? Our YA editor spills on what books she can’t wait to read this spring, from Kiera Cass’s “The Elite” to the co-written “Invisibility” by David Levithan and Andrea Cremer.
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Breaking news! Shailene Woodley (The Descendents) is going to play Hazel in the film adaptation of John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars!
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Is this good? You guys? I know nothing about starlets….
BUT HOW CAN SHE BE HAZEL GRACE AND TRIS AT THE SAME TIME? Bookish questions we ask ourselves.
Really though, Mae Whitman shoulda had this.
The new pope will be played by Bob Rebadow from HBO’s “Oz.”
Let’s all go here tonight after work and celebrate the fact that Bloomberg’s ridiculous test of executive power (which would not have had any impact on our ability to buy big gulps due to the fact that supermarkets and convenience stores are regulated by New York State and not City anyways) failed!
Please BYOOpinions on Lena Dunham and SXSW. Guests welcome!
shame on bloomberg for fighting to lower taxpayer health care costs or attempting to limit major corporations’ ability to sell and market totes inappropriate portions of sugar water
the decisions a politician makes right before leaving office often say the most about them. do they pardon homies and sneak in appropriations? or do they tackle an issue so huge no one else has even bothered to address it
the legislation was flawed. the logic wasn’t
I don’t disagree with you about how the last decisions made in office are indicative of the character of a politician, but Bloomberg has been actively trying to police New Yorker’s health for almost the entirety of his tenure as mayor. Salt, drinks, diabetes, smoking, obesity - these are not new issues to our man. And for the most part, I didn’t mind them. Take cigarette tax hikes, for example - forget about the fact that they are not proven to lower smoker rates, that the initiative cost the city $500,000, or that it was, in my opinion, goading tobacco addicts with an insane, unavoidable tax - it at least provided an estimated $735 million to research on “cancer and tobacco-related diseases.” As far as his obesity-related causes, I think that his awareness campaign was an extremely good idea and has definitely made me, personally, rethink the way that I intake calories. Where I start to take issue, though, is when he feels it necessary to actually enact legislation that has no $735 million-dollar silver lining. In an era with an already-struggling economy, creating a new health tax would be weird enough. But to regulate the way that businesses are allowed to sell their products is not just stupid, in this case, it’s impossible to oversee. Forget for a second that the ban, commonly called the “Big-Gulp” ban, has never affected big-gulps. What would he do next? Try to ban the sale of 2-liter bottles? Oh wait, yeah, he did. Cool so now families who want to stock up on soda will have to order 16 ounce bottles, which will, again, cost them more and create a lot more plastic waste?
Sometimes an issue is so huge that no one else has wanted to address, but other times an issue is so… inconsequential, economically (and sometimes environmentally) wasteful, that it’s never worth addressing in the first place.
Also lulz-worthy recent Bloomberg priorities: Banning carafes of mixers when you order bottle service and spending $250,000 on a new campaign to combat loud headphones.
Take a quick second and remind yourself that this is the same Mayor who, just a week ago, and four months post-Sandy, was booed by the citizens of Rockaway. Now, I wouldn’t go so far and claim that all of this makes him a bad mayor. But if you are looking for a big issue that isn’t being addressed, start with people in need. Once you solve that, then feel free to do a tour of all of the internet companies in NY and get on your high horse and start telling us what we’re allowed to eat or drink.
We are all Sadie Sandler.
Happy Book Birthday to Lauren Oliver’s “Requiem!” The author reveals her favorite love stories on Bookish—spoiler alert: they aren’t your typical YA fare. Read about her favorites and why she loves them here.
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