Summer TV

Two popular teen books will be turned into TV shows on ABC Family this summer. Pretty Little Liars based on the mystery series by Sara Shepherd will air Tuesdays at 8pm starting June 8, while Huge based on the book by Paley about 2 girls at fat camp will air Mondays at 9pm starting June 28. I'm definitely curious to see how the shows will turn out. Plus it's always nice to have a new show to watch in the summer when everything else is on hiatus. You can read more about these shows here.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

Stephenie Meyer has announced that she will be releasing a novella in June. Titled The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, this 192-page work will detail the life of Bree, a newborn vampire introduced in Eclipse. The story tells of Victoria's newborn army and their attempts to find Bella and Edward. The best part is you can purchase the book for $13.99 or read it for free from June 7-July 5 at www.breetanner.com

Little Brother to the Big Screen?

Little Brother by Corey Doctorow is in the early stages of possibly getting made into a movie. The producer of Natural Born Killers has purchased the rights to the film and will start shopping it around to the studios. While the movie is obviously a couple of years away, who do you think should play Marcus?

On another movie note, I heard that Michael Myers is working the 4th Austin Powers, "yeahhh baby!"

Eclipse

Check out the trailer for the next movie in the Twilight saga

Book News

I just read that the sequel to Beautiful Creatures by Kemi Garcia and Margaret Stohl will be called Beautiful Darkness and will be released October 26, just in time for Halloween. I know I'm in the vast minority here, but I just could not get into Beautiful Creatures. I love books with a strong sense of place so I thought I'd really like it since it takes place in South Carolina. Instead, I felt like it needed some editing and similar to the Twilight series it really bothered me that the characters immediately bought into the supernatural scenarios with no hesitation. I think I'm just over supernatural for the time being.

We've put The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell on order. The Carrie Diaries is basically the prequel to Sex in the City. It's Carrie's life as a teen. With the Sex in the City movie sequel coming out, it'll definitely be a big hit. While I've heard that there are discrepancies between some aspects of Carrie's life in the book versus what we've learned about her on the show, I'm definitely excited to read it.

RVC Idol Auditions

Check out the auditions for RVC Idol. Our Grand Finale is next Thursday, March 25 @ 7pm. All our welcome to attend!

Z. Rex

Check out this book trailer for Z. Rex by Steve Cole. This is the book we'll be discussing at the next Parent/Son Book Club meeting on April 15.

New Fiction

We love getting new books and yesterday we got a stack of 'em:

They are: The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk; Out of the Blue by S.L. Rottman; Goldstrike by Matt Whyman (book 2); The Shadow Project by Herbie Brennan; Numbers by Rachel Ward; Wish by Alexandra Bullen; Scarlett Fever by Maureen Johnson (book 2), Duplikate by Cherry Cheva; and Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Materials by Rosalind Wiseman.

I'm reading Numbers and I'm looking forward to reading Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Material. The author wrote Queen Bees and Wannabes, which is the book that Mean Girls is based on. (It's one of my favorite movies!)