Tidbits:

Movies/TV

• Chuy from Star Wars, I knew I always loved you. 
• If we ever see the Selection on any sort of screen other than my imagination, I will be delighted. (And some other adaptations I've not heard of)
• Divergent is filming already.  I am beyond beyond excited.  

Books

• Even better, the last book in the Divergent trilogy will be titled Allegiant (meh) and will be out in October!
• Here be a cover, another bumped back release date, and an interview with Diana Gabaldon regarding the slightly melodramatically titled Written In My Hearts Own Blood.  Bad that I forgot Jem has been trapped in a mine since like...2009? I just want to read it already!
• A first look at Patrick Ness' new YA book!
• Ugh, the messes the Nazi's are still being sorted out, even in the antique books world. 
• Please meet my new favorite thing: Literarily Drunk.
• Curiouser and curiouser: Jason Segal is writing a YA novel.  Dubious about the whole celebauthor train, but not as dubious in this case?  If that's not enough for you, pour yourself a Game of Thrones Cocktail! I'm all in for a Vodka Implet.

Design

• Bookshelf and home design mixed?  Oh, hello, feeling of nirvana.  (Incidentally, that little boy is such a snatchable little minx!)  But seriously, I want this. 
• Bonus round: a really cool library design, and it's an international library!

Tidbits

News team assemble! 

• Well, we all knew this had to happen someday, and it's honestly not bad.  But nothing trumps the original, stunning Harry Potter covers.  NOTHING!  
• From Fiction to Fashion get into my closet, now.
• Curiously, Morgan Freeman wasn't available to play death in a movie about 1930's Germany: the Book Thief is going to be a movie, and they've already cast it.
• Beautiful Creatures is in theaters, and I'm excited to see it next week.  Fingers crossed its not too Disney hokey, and just enough Southern Gothic to not ruin it!  I'm also kind of excited for Warm Bodies...which I've never read (confessions!).  
• Vicious cycle alert: In news that shocks nobody, Chick Lit isn't exactly great for feeling super awesome about your body image...which is maybe why some ladies are reading it in the first place.
• I'll see you in November, Bridget Jones.  
• The first chapter of Patrick Ness's new adult book is available to be previewed.  Squeeeee!  
• Places I want to go to include this gorgeous underground train station in NYC.  If I wasn't afraid of rats...or prison...
• Because I love you, I found the specialist Valentine I could for you guys.

Tidbits: Good vs. bad ideas by Hollywood, pr-E-views, mini-mashups

• Queen Mary had a thing for dollhouses, and as everyone who is someone knows, no house regardless of size is complete without a library.  QM's library redefines the term pocket book, and answers a very important Zoolander question.  These dollhouse books are unbelievably cute!  And also, how did they make them so tiny?!??  Read about it at the first link, or tour the dollhouse library at this link.   [via Parathentical]
  
•  Have you always harbored a secret desire to replace steal Gilbert from Anne? Hear Captain Wentworth tell you that you pierce his heart?  Rest easy, daydreamer.  You can now special order a copy of a classic book with your name, and that of your friends/family/part-time lovers in the place of the characters.  BONUS: the company also does romance novels.  Best gag gift ever?  Bonus BONUS:  Oh, snap.  They also have a category called "vampire."  I can't even...[via GalleyCat]
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• The first twentish pages of Maggie Stiefvater's newest book, Raven Boys, is up on EW for your perusal.
  
• Ditto for an pr-E-view of  The Book of Blood and Shadow, by Robin Wasserman (who I met once, and who was very very nice!).
  
• Bad idea by Hollywood:  Robert Pattinson as Finnick Odiar?  Please, no.   
  
• Good idea by Hollywood: Oooh, I have spotted the moste curiouse tweet from Patrick Ness regarding the script for The Knife of Never Letting Go (I'm still nervous about it, even after Hunger Games didn't stink):
  
  
  CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER.  
  
  

Tidbits: Chaos Walking Movies? I feel unokay.

You guys.  Thanks to Ms. Hawes, movie maven and IMDB queen,  I have been duly notified that Lionsgate has optioned Patrick Ness' fantastics Chaos Walking books.  Honestly, not sure how to feel.  Yes, I want more people to read these fabulous books.  But I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I think that Hollywood may royally miss the boat and muck up this fantastic series.  As she pointed out in her email, how would they even recreate the Noise? How!?!?   I'm going to have to sleep on this one!  I am, however, reassured that they've just purchased the rights, and that there is a producer of repute...it could be years or never that the ruiners get on board their ruiny train and ruin a fantastic series!  Maybe I have made up my mind...I'm only in, and only slightly so, if like...John Malkovich is cast as Mayor Prentiss. 

PrE-views! Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls

Oh, fine, ENGLAND.  Have yourselves a merry little holiday tomorrow while America wakes up early at ungodly hours and fantasizes about spiking our tea as we watch the royal wedding.  But we can't! Because we're a workaholic nation of workaholics! That's cold.  But you know what really hurts? 

A Monster Calls drops on Cinco de Mayo across the pond.

It doesn't drop here until SEPTEMBER.  Single tear.

ICE COLD. 

But you know what slightly, kind of, maybe, not really but whatever, makes up for it?

The Guardian has a preview of a few pages up!  Yay!  Delight in the magic of Patrick Ness!
But seriously, SEPTEMBER?  England, I will glower over my margarita in your general direction on 5/5/2011!