Happy Friday, friends! Hope you’re surviving these dog days of summer. I think I just realized why I’m not a dog person. Here’s a roundup of distractions just for you!
ICYMI on FYA
In this week’s Stream It Review, Mandy C. checks out the bestie goals in Ride or Die (Season #1).
In book reports:
- Regina experienced the middle-grades musical fantasy, We Are the Song by Catherine Bakewell.
Book-Related Things
Reactor’s list of all the new SFF young adult books arriving in August 2026.
And Reactor’s list of all the new romantasy books arriving in August 2026.
Hollywood’s Book Adaptation Boom Has a Black Author Problem
Onscreen Things
Variety: Spies in the Woods: Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys on Their Emmy Nominations, Watching Widow’s Bay and That Diplomat Cliffhanger
Heated Rivalry Adds Emily Hampshire, Edvin Ryding, Robert Naylor, Sabrina Jalees & Priyanka To Season 2 Cast
Nina Dobrev is giving us sneak peeks at the currently filming It Happened One Summer.
Social Media Things
Brandi Carlile’s full cover of Uninvited at the Newport Folk Festival.
Anne Hathaway doing her iconic Princess Diaries: “Me, a princess? Shut up.”
What’s distracting you this week?
