Happy December Friday! I’ve had boozy egg nog three times this week already, and I don’t plan to stop any time soon. Fa la la la laaaa!
ICYMI on FYA
We released the list of our favorite books of 2023! Take a look and let us know if you agree with our picks (and feel free to tell us what we totally missed).
We posted the discussion questions for our December FYA Book Club selection, Three Holidays and a Wedding.
The last prompt of our 2023 Reading Challenge is here!
Brian may have cried a little (but laughed a lot) while watching and reviewing the last season of Miracle Workers.
In book reviews:
- Stephanie swooned over The Gentleman’s Gambit, the last book in Evie Dunmore’s historical romance series, A League of Extraordinary Women.
- Mandy C. couldn’t stop grinning while reading and reviewing Talia Hibbert’s first foray into YA fiction, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute. (Which, pssst, is also our FYA Book Club pick for February!)
Book-Related Things
Goodreads published their list of the best books of 2023.
Check out this round-up of 20 must-read queer historical fantasy books.
Sure, it’s men, but this list of 12 male role models from science fiction and fantasy is spot on. (And it’s written by a trans woman, so you know she’s got Opinions.)
Onscreen Things
The Furiosa trailer looks, no surprise, BAD. ASS:
Catherine Hardwicke answers every niche question about Twilight.
Six Norman Lear (RIP) TV episodes that changed the world.
As Mandy W. said, let this continued partnership be like an Astair and Rogers frequent collaborators thing with singing and dancing:
We all agree, Christopher Plummer could Get It:
Dune 2 moved up!
Social Media Things
Oh dear god:
Relatable: Rainbow also misses Runaways:
For all of us Empyrean fans:
A stellar (if niche) use of the I’m Just Ken/I’m Just Pete meme:
Miscellaneous Things
Taylor Swift is TIME‘s 2023 Person of the Year.
Inside the weird and delightful origins of the Jungle Gym, which just turned 100.
Shake Shack has created a Hot Firefighter Calendar to promote their new hot menu. Get it?!
Not sure how we feel about this Joshua Jackson and Lupita Nyong’o romance.
What’d we miss? Add your fave distractions of the week in the comments.
