Happy Friday, internet friends! I hope you have big plans this weekend (or no plans, depending on how you like to live your life). I’m celebrating my 8TH wedding anniversary! Time flies.

ICYMI on FYA

Be sure and check out Sarah’s Stream It post on Rosaline, the new Hulu movie based on When You Were Mine by friend of FYA Rebecca Serle!

New month, new FYA Book Club pick! Check out our discussion questions for Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz.

In book reports this week, Stephanie revisited the world of Defy the Night in her review of Defend the Dawn by Brigid Kemmerer.

Book-Related Things

New book podcast alert! Each week, If Books Could Kill will discuss one of the worst airport books of the last 50 years.

An unexpected compendium of Lord of the Rings Adaptations

YA Authors Talk #BookTok: Boon or Burden?

Onscreen Things

Good news, Peacock will now start streaming Hallmark Christmas movies!

Heartstopper‘s Joe Locke has been cast in Agatha: Coven of Chaos.

Social Media Things

Some #NaNoWriMo inspo:

Fun fact: Loralei’s house is ALSO Spencer Hastings‘ house.

*screams in horror*

  1. He is S’FINE. 2. You can own one of these soon. (The jersey, not the Josh.)


Or the best costume idea you’ve ever had?

Give them an Oscar already.

@sinkthesun

She knew it was better to be in the plastics hating life then to not be in it at all #meangirls @lindsaylohan @losetheoutfit as Regina George me as Cady Heron @Michael Esposito as bus

♬ original sound – Brian Morr

The Hocus Pocus 2 we deserve.

Where’s the lie?

Miscellaneous Things

Raise your hand if you’re an OG and remember when Stephenie Meyer fancast Henry Cavil as Edward.


What’d we miss? Add your fave distractions of the week in the comments.

Rosemary lives in Little Rock, AR with her husband and cocker spaniel. At 16, she plucked a copy of Sloppy Firsts off the "New Releases" shelf and hasn't stopped reading YA since. She is a brand designer who loves tiki drinks, her mid-century modern house, and obsessive Google mapping.