Happy Friday the 13th!
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In our ongoing rewatch of Friday Night Lights, Sarah recapped the season three finale in which the show jumps ahead, and everyone looks happy, but ….
And in this week’s Book Reports:
- Brian reviewed Kenneth Oppel’s Best of All Worlds, a book that examines what happens when families get stuck in an impenetrable dome.
- I reviewed Ali Brady’s Battle of the Bookstores, a super swoony, nicely spicy, excellently book love-filled romance.
Book-Related Things
Yesterday, Literary Hub released their Ultimate Summer 2025 reading list.
“Fan Fiction is About Community. Could AI Ruin That?”
Here’s a cover reveal for Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunters short story compilation.
Rainbow Rowell’s next book, Cherry Baby, is another adult novel and her “most ambitious” yet.
From Reactor: “The Theater Kids at the End of the World.”
“A New Battle Cry for Boobs, and Why Reading and Talking About Them Is Important.”
Onscreen Things
Halloweentown‘s Kimberly J. Brown and Daniel Kountz are rekindling the black flame (I know I’m mixing my Halloween movies; please just roll with it) and will appear together in an upcoming Hallmark movie, Haul Out the Halloween.
Rachel Reid’s gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry is getting an adaptation.
Here’s a look at all of the musical performances from the 2025 Tony Awards.
Connie Britton and Taylor Kitsch talk about the grief of leaving Friday Night Lights.
Here’s an interview with Julie Plec, creator of the We Were Liars adaptation (among many other things).
Social Media Things
This great Instagram account chronicles all of the clothes from Buffy.
This made my whole year.
“Funniest.”
Miscellaneous Things
Also from Reactor: “The NeverEnding Story: Childhood Trauma and the Stories that Change Us.”
What’d we miss? Add your fave distractions of the week in the comments.
