Hello! I have returned from our family holiday in the UK jetlagged and...well, jetlagged. Bear with me, folks.
On to the links!
Book Related Things
Hey Toronto, your Harry Potter store is officially open!
This list of Harry Potter jokes is actually pretty great.
How YA Twitter Is Trying To Dismantle White Supremacy, One Book At A Time.
Dark Fairytales For Grown-Ups—we recommend FYA BC pick Roses and Rot.
Holly Black's elf ears made the NYT.
Speaking of the NYT, this story of the YA book that knocked T.H.U.G. from the #1 spot is BANANAPANTS. (Also, HIGHLY unethical.)
YA Onscreen Things
This week in YA Onscreen: Valiant is going to be a CW show, lots of casting news, and more!
Whoa, MAJOR casting news for The Hate U Give: Common has been cast, and so has Issa Rae!!
Are you still upright? Because David Oyelowo is playing Aaron in Chaos Walking! *flailllllllllllllll*
The graphic novel Anya's Ghost is going to be a film, and Patrick Ness is writing the screenplay.
Pics from EW's Outlander shoot. Praise be.
Miscellaneous Things
Dating app Hater released its users' most hated foods by state, and they previously released a map of general things its users hate, too.
Sisterhood of the Travelling Wedding Dress: "This wedding dress will be worn by 12 different brides over the next year".
John Stamos is "an ageless vampire" according to co-star, Lori Laughlin, and goes nude for his 54th birthday! GO AHEAD, JOHN.
Today in Suck It, Racists: there's a petition in Virginia to replace Confederate statues with ones of Missy Elliott, and New Orleans is ready to replace theirs with ones of Big Freedia. YOU ALREADY KNOWWWWWW