H'Oh boy, I am ready for this week to be over (and it only lasted three days!) So let's entertain ourselves with some linkage and get this weekend started.
Book Related Things
HumbleBundle (an awesome company that usually focuses on indie computer games) has put together an audiobook bundle. Pay what you want and some of the proceeds go to charity. (Included are Lucy Christopher’s Stolen and Meg Cabot’s Abandon.)
A great roundup of YA books coming out in 2014 written by authors of color. Plus, in 2014, read MOAR women!
Also, apparently YA is super chic now, because even TeenVogue has a 2014 YA roundup.
Looks like one of these days our libraries will have Simon & Schuster ebooks for borrowing. (But if they stick with a one-year, one-book, one-user license, they will be on my shitlist forever.)
The Atlantic on the decline of the American book lover.
A list of historical bars book lovers should consider dropping in on.
Writing novels certainly doesn’t guarantee you’ll pull in the big bucks. (And speaking of writing/publishing being difficult, read this article. So many feels.)
Movie Related Things
Mockingjay Part 1 released its first teaser poster. (Meredith finds it boring. Truth.) Less boring is Natalie Dormer’s new haircut for her role as Cressida.
And The Giver just released its first promotional images.
Vampire Academy has a new trailer and promo images.
Maleficent has a full trailer. (Here’s hoping they give her a bit more backstory and motivation than pissed off due to party snub.)
Y: The Last Man and The Runaways movies: not happening yet.
Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgård are starring in a movie based on a YA graphic novel.
Garrett Hedlund is going to play Captain Hook in the new Peter Pan movie.
How Frozen killed Prince Charming.
Which Mean Girls character are you?
TV Related Things
Did you watch Flowers In The Attic? Well, it got great ratings. They’ll probably be fast-tracking that sequel.
These Broken Stars may be headed to your television.
Also in the world of in-production shows, ABC gets neat sounding sci-fi thriller and Amy Poehler has a new show starring Natasha Lyonne.
Girl Meets World has been picked up for a full season.
Doctor Who fans will love these supplemental (and unofficial) Cards Against Humanity cards.
Vulture compared Girls to Little Women (and apparently didn’t do a google search to see if it had already been done, ahem.)
Miscellaneous Things
Toy Story reenacted...WITH KITTENS. I can’t decide who’s cuter...kitten Woody or kitten Buzz. Daww.
More details on The Wizarding World’s new Diagon Alley expansion. Also, a thorough guide to Harry Potter movie locations in the UK. (Except that they don’t actually explain that the Jacobite Steam Train mentioned is the Hogwarts Express.)
Which fictional city would you live in?
A guide to Jared Leto’s career post-My So Called Life.
Find anything share-worthy this week? Let us know in the comments!
