ANTM Recap C24/E12: Beauty is a Comeback
Final Four Freakin'
It's the Final Installment of YA Book Club: Winter Games, Yo
Mary and Emily got up early this Wednesday morning to have a coffee together and chat about the final book of the YA Book Club: Winter Games series, The Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera. Read what they think about this book (including all the spoilers), and then check out the upcoming line-up for YA Book Club in Paradise, which will begin at the end of May and run until the end of August. We hope you'll read along with us.
Read moreRiverdale Recap! S2E16: Primary Colors
Mary and Kelli are still trapped in the hell we call Riverdale for a few more episodes, and this week they're giving you a rundown of what happened in "Primary Colors," the latest ep. Enjoy the madness with us and don't forget to let us know what you thought!
Read more'The Joel McHale Show' is 'The Soup' Reboot We Deserve
Remember The Soup?
Of course you do. Perhaps the only good thing to ever come out of the E! network, The Soup was a weekly clip show hosted by everyone’s favorite tall, handsome asshole: Joel McHale.
Each episode, McHale presented a variety of clips from the week in bad TV, covering everything from morning news segments to the latest episode of The Bachelor, season -insert number from 5 to 19 here-. The Soup ran for 12 seasons, from 2004 to 2015, and then E! cancelled it, completing their transformation into the fully garbage network they always aspired to be.
If you’re like me, you watched The Soup enough that you can probably still hear the sound bites from the show’s recurring segments in your head (sooooo meaty, etc). Luckily, The Joel McHale Show on Netflix is just like The Soup, except it’s not on network television anymore so Joel and all of his guests can curse as much as they want to. So far, some of the complaints about this show have been that it’s too much of the same (see Paste’s review, ‘The Joel McHale Show Suffers from Its Insistence on Formula’), but I’m here to argue that its willingness to stay the same is exactly what makes it so damn enjoyable.
Read moreANTM Recap - C24/E11: Beauty is Personality
The final five models feeling fierce af
Remember how one of the “prizes” for this cycle’s winner is having an avatar of herself in the ANTM mobile game? The episode where we have to talk about the game is here. I was not jazzed about this, but then Queen Khrystyana made everything better.
Read moreRiverdale Recap! S2E15: There Will Be Blood
This past week’s episode of Riverdale is entitled “There Will Be Blood.”
We were hoping there might be some fun references to the 2007 film — an oil well explosion, maybe, or a Daniel Day Lewis cameo — but it turns out the only thing Riverdale really has in common with PTA’s purported masterpiece is… milkshakes.
The title isn’t completely off base, though. We were promised blood, and there will... be blood.
Sorry. Let’s just start the recap.
Read moreJust Two Girls Who Miss Aunt Beast: Mary & Susan on A Wrinkle in Time
While the whole squad has feelings about Ava Duvernay's new film A Wrinkle in Time, Susan and Mary bring you two perspectives out of four!
Read moreWe Need to Talk About Simon
Over the summer, Mary and I read Becky Albertalli's The Upside of Unrequited for our Summer YA Book Club. If you didn't read our blog post about this novel or don't recall what we said, we both loved it, and we both said we really needed to get around to reading her first novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda one of these days.
So now picture me at the beginning of this week, Monday, March 12. It's nearly a year later, and Simon has been sitting on my shelf just waiting for me to make time for him, and the film version of the novel Love, Simon is set to hit theaters THIS COMING WEEKEND. So I do what any responsible grad student would do. I shirk all responsibilities, brew a cup of tea, snuggle into the couch with my cat and my Pua stuffed animal, and I read this book.
Dear reader, I could not put it down. I finished it in one sitting. And now that I've read the book and seen the movie adaptation, I need to talk about it.
Read moreANTM Recap - C24/E10: Beauty is Real
It’s the best episode of the cycle
(besides makeovers – ahem – Tyovers): GO SEES!
Selfie Mail from Tyra says they’re gonna “take a walk in the real world” and everyone’s just like “thank god we get out of this house.”
Read moreFeatured Bookstore: Little Shop of Stories, Decatur, GA
Local independent bookstores
help foster a sense of community, and that's what drew me to Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Georgia.
The first time I walked through their doors during the Decatur Book Festival many years ago, I could see that this bookstore was doing more than selling Children's and Young Adult books. They were promoting a literary community in Decatur for children, adults, and even dogs (more on the dogs later). Little Shop of Stories is the type of bookstore that I walk into knowing I'm going to end up finding at least one or two things I have to buy. It's the type of place I recommend to friends whenever they're visiting from out of town and looking for something fun to do. Because, as corny as this might sound, it's more than a bookstore. It's a fun place to be.
This past weekend while I was in Atlanta visiting friends and family, I had an opportunity to sit down with Justin Colussy-Estes to talk more about Little Shop of Stories, what makes this store so awesome, and its connection to the Decatur community.