Christie & Cocktails: Cards On The Table
BOOK REPORT for Cards On The Table by Agatha Christie Cover Story: Super Literal BFF Charm: Yay! Swoonworthy Scale: 1 Talky Talk: Sit Up And Pay Attention Bonus Factors: Cocktails! Relationship...
View ArticleProcrastination Pro-Tips: Illustrated Harry Potter, Diversity in YA, and more!
Happy Friday! It's been a long week; send bourbon. Book Related Things Diversity in 2014 YA book covers. LGBTQ 2015 YA releases. New illustrated Harry Potter books. Reaction to TIME's very white...
View ArticleSuperhero Sundays: Jan. 13-17
Speedy Synopses: Agent Carter 1x3: Time and Tide Agent Carter this week wasn't bad by any stretch of the imagination. Just paced a bit oblong? We get some character development from Jarvis throughout...
View ArticleNow Is The Season Of Evil!
BOOK REPORT for The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co. #2) by Jonathan Stroud Cover Story: Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia BFF Charm: Shiny Swoonworthy Scale: 2.5 Talky Talk:...
View ArticleThe SUPERNATURAL Rewatch Project: People Behaving Badly
The Road So Far Welcome back, superfans! It’s week eight of the rewatch project, and in these episodes our grunge-tastic heroes learn that monsters aren’t the only things that go bump in the night....
View ArticleTherapy With a Knife
BOOK REPORT for A Different Me by Deborah Blumenthal Cover Story: The Shadow Nose Drinking Buddy: Why the Long Face? Testosterone Level: Don't Get Your Nose Out of Joint Talky Talk: A Nose By Any...
View ArticleExclusive Sneak Peek: MY BEST EVERYTHING
One of the great things about YA is how it can draw inspiration from anything and anywhere -- including moonshine-making, small-town Appalachia à la Moonshiners (Discovery Channel). Here's the...
View ArticleYA Movie News Roundup: A New Trailer And Posters For THE DUFF
Welcome back to the YA Movie News Roundup! Let's hop to. We've got a new trailer and new character posters for The DUFF (FYA review here), hitting theaters February 20. Check out the rest of the...
View ArticleThe Originals 2x10: Gonna Set Your Flag on Fire
Previously on The Originals: Big diamonds, body jumping, Lesther’s a vampire, Hayley and Elijah, and baby Hope, oh my! Yay! It’s back! I missed our southern gothic friends, didn’t you? The Original...
View ArticleLa Vita Bella (Sort Of)
BOOK REPORT for Love, Lucy by April Lindner Cover Story: That's Amore BFF Charm: Roger Murtaugh Swoonworthy Scale: 4 Talky Talk: Easy Breezy, Mostly Bonus Factors: Italy, Roman Holiday, Tasty...
View ArticleJane the Virgin 1x10: Chapter Ten
Welcome back, Janesters! Never have I felt the winter blues so acutely as I did enduring JtV's too-long hiatus from my screen. My blues were at least assuaged by this year's incredible and shocking...
View ArticleTHE O.C. Rewatch Project: Let’s All Go To The L.A.
Last week, on The O.C. Follow the whole rewatch here! Welcome back to The O.C., where we're taking a little field trip this week! Last week, Britt asked me a vital question - where do I fall on the...
View ArticleFYA JAM: A Little Bit of Resolve
Welcome back to FYA JAM! As thrilled as I am to have another round of music talk with Jennie, wasn't it just New Year's?!? How is the month going by so quickly? We're three weeks into January, which...
View ArticleThe Summer of Songwriting
BOOK REPORT for I’m Glad I Did by Cynthia Weil Cover Story: Doo Wop BFF Charm: Meh Swoonworthy Scale: 6 Talky Talk: Pop Music Bonus Factor: Real Songs Relationship Status: Not My Kind of Tune Cover...
View ArticlePretty Little Liars 5x16: Over a Barrel
Resolved: A time jump will save PLL from ourobourosing itself. Resolved, Part 2: A three-month time jump in the nightmare town that is A's Rosewood is worse than no time jump at all. Discussion...
View ArticleNetflix Fix: Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Title: Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day Year: 2008 Fix: Lee Pace As A Sexy And Adorable Pianist, 1930s Everything, Age Appropriate Love Stories Netflix Summary: Guinevere Pettigrew lands a job as the...
View ArticleThe 100 2x9: Remember Me
Previously on The 100: The hostility between the Grounders and the Arc survivors nearly boils over, but Clarke saves the day—like always—by taking justice into her own hands. R.I.P. Finn. It has been...
View ArticleThe Lioness in Winter
BOOK REPORT for Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine by Kristiana Gregory Cover Story: Once Upon a Time BFF Charm: Yay! Swoonworthy Scale: 5 + 5 = 10?? Talky Talk: Alas! Earwax Bonus Factors: Sisters,...
View ArticleProcrastination Pro-Tips: YA Authors’ Favorite Adult Books, Literary Mean...
Happy Friday, ladies and gents! Book Related Things Ernest Cline is writing a Ready Player One sequel. If Hermione were the main character in Harry Potter. The Bletchley Park lady codebreakers of WWII...
View ArticleThe Vampire Diaries 6x11: Woke Up With a Monster
Previously on The Vampire Diaries - A con artist pretended to be long-lost grand-niece, Sarah Salvatore, but Stefan was on to her, since he knows Sarah is studying art at Duke. Enzo killed the con...
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