Plan Your Summer Movie Night: Destroy All Movies, The Complete Guide To Punks On Film

Destroy All Movies, edited by Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly, represents a truly epic undertaking - an attempt to catalog and review every movie with a punk in it made in the 20th century. The writing is hilarious, and there are interviews with the cast and creators of numerous classics of punk film, such as Penelope Spheeris, director of Suburbia and The Decline of Western Civilization, (as well as little known punk rock western "Dudes") and several punk rockers, including Lee Ving of Fear and John Doe and Exene Cervenka of X. The book contains over 1,000 movies, from cult classics to complete garbage. A must read for any lover of punk rock, or terrible movies (especially both.)

YA Fiction: Kiss Me Deadly (Trisha Telep, Ed)

I originally checked out Kiss Me Deadly because I was looking for more Maggie Stiefvater, after being totally impressed by her Wolves of Mercy Falls books. I will admit that I didn't have high hopes for a collection of "13 tales of paranormal romance" - but I was pleasantly surprised. The book would have been completely worth it for Diana Peterfreund's contribution, "Errant", a take on the legend of unicorns with a few interesting twists, then add in "The Spy Who Never Grew Up" by Sarah Rees Brennan, probably the best take on a Peter Pan sequel I've ever encountered. However, every story, though they all include the expected boy, girl, and supernatural something or other, is totally readable and interesting; and contain strong female leads and frequently, unexpected plot twists. I enjoyed the entries from authors I knew, found a few more authors to love, and was overall totally satisfied.

A standout choice in the overflowing YA paranormal romance genre.