Happy Palindrome Day, y’all! I’m headed back to the pool because it’s so damn hot here in Texas, so please enjoy these links (hopefully while sitting in air conditioning).
ICYMI on FYA
For this week’s Stream It, Mandy W. reviews Adults, a very worthy contender for the quintessential Gen Z hangout comedy.
This week in book reviews:
- Regina isn’t completely starry eyed over The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer, but she still enjoyed the trip.
- Mandy C. cozied up to Amy Coombe’s Stay for a Spell, in which a book-loving princess saves herself!
Book-Related Things
Starlog is back, y’all! (And its senior editor is our very own Meredith Borders!)
Cover reveal for Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue sequel novella.
27 books to celebrate Pride Month!
Kick it with this list of the 20 best new books about the World Cup.
Really digging this Publisher’s Weekly interview with George M. Johnson, author of All Boys Aren’t Blue, one of the most banned books in the country. (It’s worth checking out the entire Pride series PW is doing, like these profiles of Andrew Joseph White and Aiden Thomas.)
HRH Judy Blume on why she’s done with writing. (The woman’s done enough! Let her be!)
Apparently, there’s a literary trend of aging up beloved book heroines? Okay?
Dang, check out this new deluxe edition of Heated Rivalry. And also, the new edition of Sarah Rees Brennan’s Tell the Wind and Fire is sooo pretty!
This story of The Lord of the Flies cover art is pretty amaze.
Onscreen Things
I didn’t think we needed a new Sense and Sensibility and then I saw this trailer:
Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley are reuniting for a new Hulu series. Stelena forever!
Gilmore Girls is heading to Prime on July 1. (This gives me an excuse to remind you of our amazing Gilmore Girls Rewatch Project!)
Love this oral history of Hart of Dixie, especially the mention of a possible reunion?!
Um, there’s a live action Magic School Bus movie in the works?! And Elizabeth Banks is set to play Ms. Frizzle?! I guess magic really does exist.
Tickled pink by this Legally Blonde reunion!!!
You can now watch the ATX TV Festival Q&A for The Vampire Lestat. (Yes, Meredith C. was there, of course.) Related, check out this interview with the costume designer for the series (obviously, she’s killing it) and this interview with the show’s composer.
Joel Kim Booster says Hollywood took the wrong message from Heated Rivalry.
The Everlasting series adaptation is in the works at Netflix.
Nick Robinson and Emilia Jones? Sign me up!
The next season of Traitors has a premiere date!
Little Mandy C. is beside herself over the news of this new Pippi Longstocking animated series.
Another nepo baby has hit at the acting villa.
Miscellaneous Things
Awww! Ann M. Martin reunited with the first kids she ever babysat.
