Speed Racer Fancast: Hudson Williams

Yesterday, I spent the entire day putting together a bookcase and shelving books but to relax after finishing that task, I watched a few episodes from the classic Speed Racer animated series. I love watching this old cartoon, this show is a funny, smart, zany action packed adventure. It's not just funny there's also drama and mystery as well.

After watching a few episodes, I was thinking that if anyone ever decides to reboot and make another live-action Speed Racer movie or a TV series, I could totally see Hudson Williams as Speed Racer. Hudson has this innate playfulness, chaotic energy and genuine grit and determination to fully play the aspiring professional race car driver. I just think he would make an awesome Speed Racer.

On My List: April 4th

How was everyone's weekend? I hope you had a good one. Over the weekend, I found a new bookstore, it's cute and had a little cafe. I walked through the aisles checking out the books and before leaving the store I bought a book, The Bigfoot Files by Lindsay Eagar. It's a middle grade supernatural book that been on my list for a while.

As for what else is On My List, here is this week's list of books, shows and movies that I'm interested in.


Books I Want to Read:

I found three interesting books, a music and magic fantasy, a supernatural romantic comedy and a contemporary story about a ballet dancer having to re-evaluate her dreams. These are three books that I really want to read. I really love finding and reading so many different stories.

Book: Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints book #1) by Daniel José Older

Publication Date: May 3, 2022

Description:

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Daniel José Older's music-and-magic-filled YA urban fantasy about two teens who discover each other and their powers during a political battle within a unique diaspora community.

Almost sixteen years ago, Mateo Matisse's island homeland disappeared into the sea. Weary and hopeless, the survivors of San Madrigal's sinking escaped to New York.

While the rest of his tight-knit Brooklyn diaspora community dreams of someday finding a way back home, Mateo--now a high school junior and piano prodigy living with his two aunts (one who's alive, the other not so much)--is focused on one thing: getting the attention of locally-grown musical legend Gerval. Mateo finally gets his chance on the night of the Grand Fete, an annual party celebrating the blended culture of pirates, Cuban Santeros, and Sephardic Jews that created San Madrigal all those centuries ago.

But the evil that sank their island has finally caught up with them, and on the night of the celebration, Mateo's life is forever changed when he witnesses a brutal murder by a person he thought he knew.

Suddenly Mateo is thrust into an ancient battle that spans years and oceans. Deadly secrets are unraveled and Mateo awakens a power within himself--a power that not only links him to the killer but could also hold the key to unlocking the dark mystery behind his lost homeland.

From the author of the award-winning Shadowshaper Cypher series comes the first novel in the Outlaw Saints duology—a brilliant story that will transport readers to a world where magic, myth, and gods reign over the streets of Brooklyn.