APRIL 4, 2025

Talking Points

If You’re Too Busy

Remember when the biggest concern in your life was whether Katniss would choose Peeta or Gale? Oh, to be an unbothered teen in the 2010s!!! With all of our favorite YA book series’ finding new life in the 2020s (hello, The Hunger Games and The Summer I Turned Pretty), there’s never been a better time to dive back into the texts that made you who you are today (we blame our attachment issues on Conrad Fisher, TYVM). Here, writer Lara Buchar unpacks why tapping into your teenage self by reading young-adult novels is downright exhilarating. 📚