Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Tahereh Mafi’s bestselling dystopian YA series ‘SHATTER ME’ for a film adaptation.
(variety.com/2026/film/news/w…)
rearranging my bookshelf and found an unread copy of ariana harwicz’s ‘die, my love’ i completely forgot i had this. i should have read it before seeing the film lol
the industry did learn something from HR - well-produced queer harlequin romances sell. Boyfriend Material was optioned by A24, so it's reasonable to expect a Tierney-calibre (Pat Walters?) behind it. and on a larger scale - Canadian entertainment!
these straight hockey shows are a symptom of a larger trend - booktok adaptations, specifically hockey romance. HR is part of that trend, not the other way around
ethan frome. Edith Wharton was a gorgeous writer. affair through rose-tinted glasses but never romantic, not because it’s adulterous, but a dismal manifestation of Ethan’s dreams/desires thwarted by duty (debt of gratitude).
three people on the edge of poverty, a story of entrapment. “I don’t see there’s much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard”
and i hope i never see what your face looks like going, a face i swear that i could spend my whole life knowing / please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh i could recognize anywhere