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Samantha reads It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, Indy looks back fondly at the graphic novels of Mariko Tamaki, and we preview the Britney Spears film Crossroads! Plus booktok, beach reads, 2000s fashion, & #GirlGangFunTimeGalPals.


Mariko Tamaki (born 1975) is a Canadian artist and writer. She is known for her graphic novels Skim, Emiko Superstar, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, and This One Summer, and for several prose works of fiction and non-fiction.[1] In 2016 she began writing for both Marvel and DC Comics. She has twice been named a runner-up for the Michael L. Printz Award.