Summer Rewatch: Skins 02x04: Michelle
Michelle’s understandably having a rough go of it as of late. Her sociopath boyfriend who would never actually love her in the way she wanted got hit by a bus and is now an entirely different person....
View ArticleYA Movie News Roundup: The MOCKINGJAY PART 1 Trailer Is Whoa
Welcome back to the YA Movie News Roundup! Let's hop to. In case you missed it: the Mockingjay trailer is here and major! Posh submitted a Highly Scientific Analysis, because this is Highly Important...
View ArticleDelusions of Love
BOOK REPORT for Made For You by Melissa Marr Cover Story: Entomologist Engagement BFF Charm: Meh Swoonworthy Scale: 6 Talky Talk: Southern Gentility and Psychopathy Bonus Factor: Second Sight...
View ArticleFYA JAM: Getting to Know You(r Musical Tastes)
One of the best things about FYA is always having someone to squee with you over your fave books, movies, and TV shows. But curiously enough, there's never been an outlet to talk about music on a...
View ArticleCara Delevingne Cast as PAPER TOWN’s Margo Roth Spiegelman
Yesterday, news broke that model/actress/occupational multi-hyphenate Cara Delevingne will be playing Margo Roth Spiegelman in the upcoming Paper Towns adaptation. Cara isn't who immediately comes to...
View ArticleDefeat the Sorcerer, Save the Town
BOOK REPORT for Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2) by Sarah Rees Brennan Cover Story: Stock Forest BFF Charm: Yay Swoonworthy Scale: 9 Talky Talk: Sassy Girl Detective Saves The Town Bonus Factor:...
View ArticlePLAY IT AGAIN, DICK 1x01: Dick Plays It Again
Watch it here! I know I wasn't alone in my EXTREME JOY at the idea of a Veronica Mars spin-off featuring Dick Casablancas as a private eye. But before you wrap your minds around what that means,...
View ArticleCan You Hear Me?
BOOK REPORT for Echoes of Us (The Hybrid Chronicles #3) by Kat Zhang Cover Story: Fine, Big Face BFF Charm: Yay Times Two Swoonworthy Scale: 3 Talky Talk: Internal Monologue Bonus Factor: Awesome...
View ArticleGiveaway: GONE GIRL
In David Fincher's upcoming film adaptation of Gone Girl, Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike, a.k.a. Jane Bennet!) has gone missing, and all eyes are on her husband Nick (Ben Affleck). Everyone is wondering......
View ArticleAdaptations and Atmosphere with Kat Zhang
The final book in the Hybrid Chronicles, Echoes of Us, came out this week. (You can read my review here.) Here’s the official word: All Eva ever wanted was the chance to be herself. But in the...
View ArticleQuiet Tup Does Not Get Eaten
BOOK REPORT for Lady of Palenque: Flower of Bacal by Anna Kirwan Cover Story: Mayan Mardi Gras BFF Charm: Yay Swoonworthy Scale: 1 Talky Talk: Talking-Back Jaybird Bonus Factors: Mayan Empire,...
View ArticleTV Preview: Red Band Society
Welcome to the first of this season’s pilot posts (part of our TV Preview series)! Over the next couple of months, we’ll be taking a look at the shows we highlighted in our TV Preview: New Friends...
View ArticleProcrastination Pro-Tips: Connie Britton’s Hair and Scorpions In Your Books
Yay, it's Friday! Book Related Things Tiny scorpions keep your old books clean. CNN's list of highly anticipated YA coming out this fall. Alexandra Bracken's Darkest Minds will be adapted for film....
View ArticleWhat Dreams May Come
BOOK REPORT for The Vault of Dreamers (Book 1) by Caragh M. O'Brien Cover Story: Eye Turn My Camera On BFF Charm: Maybe Swoonworthy Scale: 3 Talky Talk: The Future Is Now Bonus Factors: Fine Arts...
View ArticleTHE MAZE RUNNER Goes Up To Eleven
From the moment the movie begins, with Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) in a blind panic as the lift, grinding and groaning, lifts him up towards the unknown, I knew The Maze Runner was going to kick some...
View ArticleOutlander 1x7: The Wedding
Previously on Outlander: Claire encountered a truly terrifying garrison commander. Dougal suggested she’d be safe if she became a Scottish citizen. Now she’s stuck marrying the unspeakably hot dude....
View ArticleCover Story: The Graveyard Book Thief
Welcome back to Cover Story, a feature in which plots are imagined based solely on the cover -- with a #YASummerShowdown mashup twist! The Graveyard Book Thief: A Cover Story by the Austin FYA Book...
View ArticleDoctor Who 8x05: Time Heist
Previously on Doctor Who: The Doctor examines humanity's mutual fear of the dark—and Clara gets a glimpse at her future. This series has featured a lot of nods to pop culture—from Fantastic Voyage to...
View ArticleDonut Man, Art Girl, and Johnny Treeface
BOOK REPORT for Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff Cover Story: It's a Bird, It's a Plane... Drinking Buddy: Flowers for Algernon Testosterone Level: Sticks and Stones Talky Talk: Universal Message Bonus...
View ArticleSummer Rewatch: Skins 02x05: Chris
I had a weird fever dream about Chris’s episode—I was sick last week and while watching Michelle’s episode passed out in a Nyquil induced coma. I awoke to being groggily out of it in the middle of his...
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