Happy Black Friday, folks! I hope you find yourself at home, avoiding the crowds, not wearing grownup-people-pants, and possibly doing some shopping from the comfort of your couch. If you’re braving the crowds today, however, godspeed.
ICYMI on FYA
We took it a bit easy this holiday week, but we did keep reading!
In this week’s Book Reports:
- Brian reviewed Jan Gansei’s Dead Below Deck, a whodunnit with a unique story chronology.
- Regina reviewed Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner’s Beyond the End of the World, the satisfying conclusion to The Other Side of the World, which ups the action and the swoon.
- And I reviewed Sarah Underwood’s Gentlest of Wild Things, an interesting mythological tale with a feminist angle.
Book-Related Things
The 2024 National Book Award winners were announced Nov. 20 in a special celebration. Amongst the winners: Angela Shanté’s The Unboxing of a Black Girl and Josh Galarza’s The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky.
The New York Times released its 100 notable books of 2024. The School Library Journal has chosen their best of 2024, too. (Does it bother anyone else that these lists come out before the actual end of the year? Just me?)
Book Influencers (?) have chosen their most-anticipated books of 2025. (Our list will post next month!)
“Barbara Taylor Bradford: she wrote books about sexy, scrappy, hard-working women like her.”
Taylor Swift will show off her many Eras Tour guitars in the new Eras Tour book, which releases today!
Have you voted in the 2024 Goodreads Readers’ Choice Awards?
“The allure of smut in young adult fiction.”
Here’s a list of the genre YA that has come out this month/will come out next month.
Onscreen Things
HRH Connie Britton will headline a new unscripted series for Hallmark.
Zachary Quinto, Patti LuPone, Hank Azaria, and Clark Gregg have joined the cast of The Artist, a “Gilded Age murder mystery.”
Courtney B. Vance will take over the role of Zeus (in the Percy Jackson series) in place of the late Lance Reddick.
Alicia Witt and Greg Kinnear have joined the Shiver adaptation.
“Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan Star in New Guy Ritchie Crime Series at Showtime.”
Social Media Things
I’m growing folks—while I still believe Glen Powell has a very punchable face, I enjoy some of his roles.
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Miscellaneous Things
I will never not love an *NSYNC moment.
This elegant Barbie and her advent calendar full of Christmas goodies is so perfect.
What’d we miss? Add your fave distractions of the week in the comments.
