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After City Council recently passed a bill to regulate pedicabs, Mayor Bloomberg decided to wait a bit longer before signing it (however, he did sign three bills about nightlife safety). Angry pedicab owners seemed to influence the mayor, pleading that the bill would contradict the 2030 sustainable city initiative. Bloomberg has until March 30th to decide whether to sign, veto or leave it alone. If left alone, the bill would automatically become law.

Sunday’s Opinionist columns are meant to be snippets and ideas about New York life, but you’ll permit me a slight diversion from topic to discuss something also fundamental to New York life – reading. Get on any subway or bus at any time of day and you’ll find about twenty people with their noses in books. I’d be willing to bet my meager earnings that there are more people that count reading as a daily activity in this city than other major cities in America, and most of that on public transportation. So, as I start my work here at Gothamist as the literature contributor, bringing New Yorkers all the news they can read about reading, I thought I’d start by reviewing a book about, well, reading.