While I know it’s a new year, I’m still not sure what day it is?!! Which is why this week’s list of internet distractions is going up late. (But imagine my delighted surprise when I realized it was Friday!)
ICYMI on FYA
We asked our Patreon members to share a few of their fave reads from 2023!
Our January FYA Book Club selection is None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney.
Check out our top 10 posts of 2023!
Mandy W. recaps “I Plunge to My Death,” episode four of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and reviews Blue Eye Samurai, one of the best shows of 2023.
In book reviews:
- Scout reviews Abigail Johnson’s wonderfully human and nuanced novel, Every Time You Go Away.
- Regina reviews The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley, an old school fantasy with an ever-exciting adventure.
- Mandy C. reviews a book with the coolest cover I’ve seen in quite some time, Cupid’s Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann.
Book-Related Things
Alert alert!! Rainbow Rowell just announced her next adult novel, Slow Dance, coming in July:
Parade’s 125 best romance books of all time (with picks from authors). [Related: check out our Grown-Up Guides to Romance!]
Tor’s list of notable YA sci-fi, fantasy, and horror from 2023.
How sensitivity readers help ensure authentic characters in fiction.
Onscreen Things
Variety’s list of the 34 most anticipated new and returning TV shows in 2024.
America Ferrera rejects criticism that Barbie is an oversimplification of feminism. (I’m with her, but also, why is this even a conversation?!! Oh right, because America the country.)
CBS has ordered a medical drama series with Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson, and we are HERE FOR IT (as all of our Sherlock Holmes posts make clear).
In (sadly) non-shocking news, this study found that the major studios’ pledges to hire more females and people of color as filmmakers were largely performative. Sigh.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but all episodes of Northern Exposure are now streaming on Amazon Prime.
Social Media Things
HARD AGREE:
PRETTY MUCH:
This is exactly why we have to review books immediately after reading them:
Same, girl, same:
Miscellaneous Things
We love the TikTok library guy!!
“Only weak men are threatened by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Barbie.” I’ll drink to that! (With our Barbie movie drinking game, of course.)
Charles Melton wants to meet Keanu Reeves (as do we all!).
