Hulu Scraps Hugh Sarah J. Maas Adaptation

Hulu Drops THE COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES

If you what to select your cause for Hulu’s resolution to desert its adaptation of Sarah J. Maas’ The Court of Thorns and Roses, you’ve received loads of decisions. Was it the writers and actors strike? Could be. The industry-wide contraction of spending on large, costly properties? Makes sense. Is it a insecurity that this the type of property/IP (on half with Tolkien or Marvel or what have you ever) that might make a wager oof this dimension at the least plausibly worthwhile? Hard to argue. I’ve questioned right here and elsewhere if a splashy adaptation would catapult into popular culture family identify standing, however now I’m wondering if we’re each going to get an opportunity to seek out out.

Barnes & Noble Opening Five New Chicagoland Bookstores—and May as Well Name Them Fox & Sons

Getting somewhat into the web weeds right here, however I assumed this letter (or rather tweet with a screenshot of a letter) from B&N president James Daunt attempting to clarify how B&N would by no means open new shops that may threaten indies. Well, so long as there are particular sorts of indies. You can have books, but when they’re used or you’re a nonprofit or perhaps serve espresso (?) then properly we really feel okay about horning in in your house. Tellingly, Daunt’s instance of the sorts of consumers not being served in these areas are “gang[s] of teenagers pil[ing] out of school to go hang out.” BookTok has made you daring, JD.

College Students Don’t Know How to Read Anymore

It’s laborious to know when to take “kids these days” articles significantly. Probably, your prior must be “probably not the case.” But additionally, generally issues change. This is difficult in any sphere of information, the balancing of the “fewer things change as fast and as much as people think right away” with “but sometimes they do and then it matters a lot.” In this case, there are at the least three causes supplied for the notion, apparently extensively shared, that faculty college students can not deal with studying longer items in addition to they did even 5 years in the past. They are: telephones, COVID, and standardized testing in secondary faculties. If you translated these issues into: behavior, instruction, and incentive, then the burden of proof, for me at the least, shifts from “show me why this would be?” to “wait, how in the world would it be otherwise?”

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