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.
- Little libraries may be the cutest advancement in the housing market since the birdhouse.
- For those of us who still want to dress like Stacy, Claudia, Dawn, and Maryann in the Babysitters Club, Lucky Magazine UNDERSTANDS. They have created a YA inspired fashion guide. +1 for including The Saddle Club, but -1 for those Boxcar Children inspired horrible overalls. No, girl, no. Other lovely books from my youth included are Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prairie, and Sweet Valley High.
- I haven't stayed up past my bedtime (okay, my bedtime is like 10, but WHATEVER) to finish a YA book in a while. But I did last night...Divergent. I held off, but once I started, there was no stopping. Thank the YAgawds the sequel drops in a few months! And DOUBLE thank the YAgawds because a preview of Insurgent, the sequel, is available on the EW website. This made my breakfast ohsodelightful. And then...OHO! Fast forward to the next item, because this, my friends, is what we call a CLIFFHANGER in YA:
- And this, friends, is what we call the SEQUEL: Lo, just as I was thinking to myself this morning that there would totally be a Divergent faction quiz online, what do I see? A Divergent Faction quiz*. Thank you internet! Please divert your attention if you are in Abnegation, because I'm about to do what is called BRAGGING: yes, I am a Dauntless (even if I do think that, like, sky diving and face tattoos are not for moi). And double smug, I'm totally always a Gryffindor too. Humbleness is one of my greatest traits. Though, I think the real question is how does one buck the system and test as divergent? Does having this thought make me...divergent?!?
(*You do, however, have to offer up your info for this Facebook quiz. Which I assume is how the Erudite will control us all!)
- Something really exciting happened to me on Valentine's Day. No, not my student publishing a piece on the back page of the school newspaper of the eight reasons I should be his Valentine (true story, I cannot make these things up). It may not have been romantic, but I know my favorite authorcrush was totally thinking of me on Galentine's Day when she linked to my review of her latest book on her site. Melina Marchetta, thank YOU for being my Galentine!
- Well hey there, potential case of the terribles: the cast of the Hunger Games is touring the malls of America, in case you had any doubts about this being an Oscar nominee. Life, imitating art. Do you think Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will accidentally on purpose start a revolution? And yet,...still really excited for the movie.
- So...a little book called The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo? Maybe you were one of the one billion people on the planet not to read it. Rebel. You're a little like Lisbeth Salander, except maybe not as edgy. BUT YOU CAN BE. Because H+M is coming out with a line of clothes based on the movie. I would look more, but don't subscribe to Women's Daily Wear. Based on the Jezebel pic, it looks moody. Do you think sales of eyeliner will jump? They should include temporary dragon tattoos in this line. Then and only then will I consider a pair of pleather pants.
- A book I am excited for got itself a dress! Behold:
I am reserving judgment based on material it is printed on. If it's shiny, heck no. The fault is in the reflection of sticky fingers on the cover. If it's more matte, I'm in! Also, does the cover indicate that someone is dark and stormy, someone is happy cloudy, and they cross paths and do something with chalk, perhaps involving Shakespeare? Calling it.
