Gryffindor Pride, Feminist YA, and E. Lockhart’s Epic Burn

Book Riot’s named 2015 the year of the feminist YA novel, backing up their thesis with such get-on-my-bookshelves-now 2015 picks as Courtney Summers’ All the Rage, Stacey Lee’s Under a Painted Sky, and Sarah McCarry’s About a Girl. Once we stopped making gimme hands at our computer screens, we found that we agreed.
In our dream it’s Idris Elba doing the asking, and the bookstore is a quaint little shop in Hogsmeade, but this bookstore proposal, via Buzzfeed, comes pretty darn close to perfect.
SparkLife has the best YA quotes about being awkward, including gems like this one: “My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.” (Guess which book.)
Flavorwire gave us 15 YA authors on their favorite non-YA books, and while everyone’s picks were interesting (Nova Ren Suma loves Claire Messud, Brandy Colbert recommends Americanah…and Una LaMarche recalls a childhood love affair with the tell-all memoir of a brothel’s madam), it was game, set, match to E. Lockhart. If you only read one pick, read hers.
This week, Tom Felton, aka Draco Malfoy, discovered he is actually a Gryffindor. J.K. Rowling was not surprised—and neither was Buzzfeed, which put together a list of indisputable proofs Felton’s no Slytherin, despite that wicked blond hair.
Goosebumps, 1992–97: never forget. We will never not click on a post about R.L. Stine, so we were powerless to resist Bustle’s list of Goosebumps books for every emotion…despite the risk of coming face to face with the original Slappy the dummy.
Because we’re only human and sometimes sneak some TV in alongside our reading schedule, YALSA has a list of readalikes based on TV shows, from Galavant (Avalon High, Princess for Hire) to The Odd Couple (The Ghost and the Goth, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls). To which we say: The Odd Couple is a TV show again?