September 2024 - Page to Screen - BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) Club

Book Club Attendee Picks

Breaking Dawn / Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer | Available at University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Public Library

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (film) | Available at Lethbridge Public Library

Eragon by Christopher Paolini | Available at University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Public Library

Eragon (film) | Available at University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Public Library

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan | Available at University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Public Library

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Lightning Thief (film) | Available at University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Public Library

Dracula by Bram Stoker | Available at University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Public Library

Bram Stoker's Dracula (film) | Available at Lethbridge Public Library

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones | Available at University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Public Library

Howl's Moving Castle (film) | Available at University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Public Library

Kaiju No. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto | Available at Lethbridge Public Library

Kaiju No. 8 (TV series)

Women of the Otherworld series by Kelly Armstrong | Available at Lethbridge Public Library

Bitten (TV series) | Available at Lethbridge Public Library

Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo | Available at Lethbridge Public Library

Shadow and Bone (TV series)

The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie | Available at Lethbridge Public Library

The ABC Murders (TV series)

The English patient by Michael Ondaatje
Call Number: MAINC PS 8579 N3 E64 1992
Ondaatje's stunning novel takes place during the final moments of the Second World War. It explores the lives of four people who come together in a damaged villa in Tuscany as the war retreats around them: a young Canadian nurse; an enigmatic thief whose skills have made him one of the war's heroes as well as one of its casualties; a Sikh soldier in the British army; and the English patient, who lies badly burned in an upstairs room. It is his adventures and turbulent love affair in the North African desert before the war, gradually uncovered, that become the centre around which these people's past and present lives unfold.
The English patient [videorecording]
Call Number: MEDIA PN 1997 E53 2004 DVD
Winner of 9 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, 1996.
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Call Number: MAINC PR 2823 A2 B73 2008
The ambition of Macbeth, the Thane of Scotland to be the King of Scotland, leads to the killing of his own king, King Duncan. His betrayal was successful and he took the kingdom throne for himself. But, his arrogance manner started murders, madness, and insecurity in the kingdom where he soon becomes a paranoia tyrant- that fears his own enmity. This edition of Shakespeare's play in performance examines several cinematic versions, such as those by Kurosawa and Roman Polanski, as well as other dramatic adaptations.

Macbeth [streaming video]
The 2015 film version starring Michael Fassbender as Macbeth and Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth.
Directed by Justin Kurzel.

Watchmen: Absolute Edition by Alan Moore
Call Number: OSIZE PN 6737 M66 W38 2005
Author Alan Moore's Watchmen presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history. Considered one of the greatest graphic novels, this Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes.

Watchmen [streaming video]
In an alternate version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends masked vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.

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