Happy Friday from sunny Tulum, where I’m spending the weekend and regretting that I already devoured Emily Henry’s Funny Story because it would obvs be the perfect beach read. What a pickle I’m in! JK I’ll just re-read it.
ICYMI on FYA
Mandy W. celebrates the 24th anniversary (!) of Love & Basketball with a Highly Scientific Analysis (which, yes, includes a drinking game, obvs!).
In book reviews:
- Brian hits the road with Jenna Voris’ Every Time You Hear That Song, which follows two friends determined to win a scavenger hunt planned by a famous country singer.
- I rave and swoon and laugh my ass off over Emily Henry’s latest novel, Funny Story.
- Mandy C. is intrigued by the gothic fantasy of Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone.
Book-Related Things
Emily Henry is all up in The NY Times being proud of her work as a romance writer AS SHE SHOULD! (Related: our review of Funny Story.) Also, she’s doing a collab with Out of Print, just take my money already goddammit.
Elliot Page is developing The Darkness Outside Us for the screen!
Books to read if you love Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department.
Onscreen Things
The trailer for Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, Blink Twice, is here, and it looks like a very effed up blast:
Awww! Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer reminisce about 13 Going On 30. And then there was a Zoom reunion!!!
Thursday Murder Club is being adapted for the screen, and the cast is stacked!
The songwriter for the fictional boy band in The Idea of You claims he wasn’t thinking about One Direction when he wrote the music… mmmkay.
Jonathan Bailey, Hailey Atwood, and Eddie Marsan will be in the third season of Heartstopper. This cast gets better and better! (Although we will miss Olivia Coleman.) (We’ve reviewed the first two seasons here.)
Did we know that there was an adaptation of My Lady Jane in the works? (Here’s Mandy C.’s review of the book.) Regardless, we are there.
Social Media Things
Been there!
IYKYK (and if you don’t, we are FULLY prepared to educate you on the twisted world of Sweet Valley High):
I wish I couldn’t believe it but yeah, I can:
Sorry, Taylor (related – our Highly Scientific Analysis):
These email sign-offs in publishing are gold, Ponyboy:
Miscellaneous Things
The Spice Girls reunited at Posh’s birthday party and WHERE WAS OUR INVITE?
Kevin Bacon returned to the high school where he filmed Footloose for their last prom because he rules.
The Independent on Taylor Swift’s storytelling powers.
