If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen. But if you don't know your beloved series is coming out as a movie, or that the fun looking preview you saw was adapted from a book, how can you join the debate? The library is here to the rescue! Here we will be exploring the movie adaptations soon to hit screens big and small and give you the chance to read before you view.
Coming This September
Aristotle and Dante was the first book that I read where I truly felt represented as a Latino-Gay man. From start to finish, I felt like this book touched upon different themes that I related to (i.e., religious upbringing, Mexican-American background, being the only gay person in school, town, and family). The book was about a Mexican-American teenager growing up in the 1980s and falling in love with his best friend, all while figuring out his own sexuality.
This book was monumental for me in the sense that it brought me complete happiness and joy when I finished it. Through the tears of completing this novel, I realized how much I cherished this story and how it instantly shot to the top of my favorite reads. Up until this point, I had not picked up a book that I related to as much as this one. It was a magical moment for me to see how much of myself I saw in this story. This book is a YA novel, and I sadly didn't know about it until I was in my early 20s. I wish I had read this book when it came out when I was a teenager, because I feel like it would have helped me tremendously on my coming-out journey. To this day, this book remains my favorite of all time. 1000/10 would recommend to anyone.
When Ari and Dante, two teenage loners in 1980s Texas, meet one fateful summer day, their lives change forever. Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s critically acclaimed Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe examines friendship, race, sexual identity, and the ties that bind through one unlikely and beautiful relationship. The cinematic adaptation will premiere on September 8, 2023.
After a young girl who claims to have witnessed a murder mysteriously drowns at a Halloween party, Inspector Hercule Poirot must round up all possible suspects to determine what exactly is going on in Woodleigh Common. With Kenneth Branaugh reprising the role of Inspector Poirot, the film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party will be released under the title A Haunting in Venice on September 15, 2023.
Carolyn Weber arrived at Oxford a skeptical agnostic but soon found herself struggling with questions of faith, truth, and love. Surprised by Oxford is one woman’s true story of confronting the big questions in life and finding answers in the most unexpected places. The film adaptation of this memoir will be released in theaters on September 27, 2023.