I recently stumbled upon a new word: bibliobibuli. It comes from the Greek word biblio (books) and the Latin word bibulous, derived from bibere (meaning “to drink”). Translated, it means “someone who reads too much” or “drunk with books.” Many of you can probably relate...it’s the feeling when you just can’t stop reading, or when you’ve just finished a book, but you’re insatiably searching for more on the topic or setting you just read. (Anyone else go through a 60s/70s rock phase after finishing Daisy Jones? More on that below!)

So as self-professed and proud bibliobibulis, we thought we’d turn our attention to the TV screen to expand on the books that keep us craving more. If you’re thirsty for a great book and movie pairing, you can borrow these streaming videos for free from Kanopy after you read them on the Libby app (or vice versa!).

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With network TV on hiatus for the summer and the price of streaming subscriptions climbing, it’s a great time to learn more about this ad-free on-demand streaming video platform from your library. It’s stocked with critically acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, popular TV series, enriching shows for kids and more.

If your library is a subscriber, you can find Kanopy under Extras in the Libby app. With your library card, you can watch on your smart TV or streaming device.

🍿 Movie: Born This Way: Deaf Out Loud
📚 Book: True Biz by Sara Novic

About the movie: Executive produced by Academy Award-winner Marlee Matlin, this documentary special follows three predominantly deaf families as they raise their children in a hearing world.

About the book: This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss and, above all, great persistence, daring and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.

🍿 Movie: Freak Show
📚 Book: Freak Show by James St. James

About the movie: Billy, a cross-dressing teen, starts attending an ultra-conservative high school. He takes a stand for his individuality by running for homecoming queen.

About the book: Billy Bloom is gay, but it’s mostly theoretical, as he hasn’t had much experience. When he has to move to Florida, he can’t believe his bad luck. His new school is a mix of Bible Belles, Aberzombies and Football Heroes, none of which are exactly his type. Billy’s efforts to fit in and stand out at the same time are both hilarious and heartrending.

🍿 Movie: Sound City
📚 Book: The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

About the movie: Deep in the San Fernando Valley, behind the train tracks and amidst dilapidated warehouses, was rock n' roll's best kept secret. Sound City, America's greatest unsung recording studio, housed a legendary, one-of-a-kind recording console, and became the birth place to the seminal albums that defined 20th century music. Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Rick Springfield, Tom Petty, Nirvana, amongst many others, all put magic to tape within these walls. It was Rock n’ Roll hallowed ground. Directed by Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) and featuring interviews and performances by the iconic musicians who made their careers in the studio, Sound City tells the story of real rock n' roll history, and celebrates the human element of music, as Grohl gathers some of rock's greatest artists to collaborate on a new album. Using Sound City's legendary analog console, together they continue to create musical miracles in a digital world.

About the book: From Grohl: Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities, I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn’t mean that I’m quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it’s like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters...the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.

🍿 Movie: The Other F Word
📚 Book: Sellout by Dan Ozzi

About the movie: What happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians (punk rockers) become society's ultimate authorities—dads? With a large chorus of Punk Rock's leading men—Blink-182's Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Rise Against's Tim McIlrath—The Other F Word follows, Jim Lindberg, 20-year veteran of skate punk band, Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his band's anthem, 'F*ck Authority', to embracing his ultimately pivotal authoritarian role in mid-life, fatherhood.

About the book: Seasoned music writer Dan Ozzi chronicles this embattled era in punk. Focusing on 11 prominent bands who made the jump from indie to major, Sellout charts the twists and turns of the last “gold rush” of the music industry, where some groups “sold out” and rose to surprise super stardom, while others buckled under mounting pressures. Sellout is both a gripping history of the music industry’s evolution, and a punk rock lover’s guide to the chaotic darlings of the post-grunge era, featuring original interviews and personal stories from members of modern punk’s most (in)famous bands.

🍿 Movie: Strike a Pose
📚 Book: The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara

About the movie: In 1990, seven young male dancers—6 gay, 1 straight—joined Madonna on her most controversial tour. On stage and in the iconic film Truth or Dare, they showed the world how to express yourself. Now, 25 years later, they reveal the truth about life during and after the tour, when they were ambassadors to the world on behalf of the LGBT community during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Strike a Pose is a dramatic tale about overcoming shame and finding the courage to be who you are.

About the book: It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where 17-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must bear the responsibility of tending to their house alone. The Xtravaganzas must learn to navigate sex work, addiction and persistent abuse, leaning on each other as bulwarks against a world that resists them. All are ambitious, resilient and determined to control their own fates, even as they hurtle toward devastating consequences.

🍿 Movie: Election
📚 Book: Tracy Flick Can’t Win by Tom Perrotta

About the movie: Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High’s student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) decides to derail Tracy’s obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate.

About the book: Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede, abruptly announces his retirement, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job. Energized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion, Tracy throws herself into her work with renewed zeal, determined to prove her worth to the students, faculty, and School Board, while also managing her personal life. But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be. As she considers the past, Tracy becomes aware of storm clouds brewing in the present. Is she really a shoo-in for the principal job? Is the Superintendent plotting against her? Why is the School Board President’s wife trying so hard to be her friend? And why can’t she ever get what she deserves?

🍿 Movie: Echo in the Canyon
📚 Book: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

About the movie: This documentary celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. It was a moment (1965 to 1967) when bands came to L.A. to emulate The Beatles and Laurel Canyon emerged as a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for a new generation of musicians who would soon put an indelible stamp on the history of American popular music.

About the book: Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late 60s, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s 20, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

🍿 Movie: Party Monster
📚 Book: Party Monster by James St. James

About the movie: Macaulay Culkin stars as Michael Alig, a prominent New York party organizer whose life spiraled out of control when he bragged about killing his drug dealer on television.

About the book: When Party Monster was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh and outrageous depiction of the hedonistic world of the 90s New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré—including murder. This is the inside story of life in clubs like The Tunnel and The Limelight and hanging with leading lights like Keith Haring and RuPaul and the drugs, sex, music and mayhem that existed during the heyday of New York City club culture.

🍿 Movie: Lady Bird
📚 Book: Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

About the movie: Directed by Greta Gerwig and nominated for five Oscars, Lady Bird is a warm, affecting comedy about a high schooler (Saoirse Ronan) who must navigate a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother (Laurie Metcalf) over the course of her eventful and poignant senior year of high school.

About the book: The world is a terrible place not to have a best friend. Scarlett was always the strong one. Halley was always content to follow in her wake. Then Scarlett’s boyfriend died, and Scarlett learned that she was pregnant. Now Halley has to find the strength to take the lead and help Scarlett get through it. Because true friendship is a promise you keep forever.

🍿 Movie: The Bling Ring
📚 Book: The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales

About the movie: A group of fame-obsessed teenagers living in the suburbs of L.A. use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their empty homes. Ringleader Rebecca leads Marc, Nicki, Sam and Chloe on the ultimate heist of designer clothes and jewelry—and what starts out as teenage fun quickly spins out of control.

About the book: With a list of victims that reads like a “Who’s Who” of young Hollywood, including Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Paris Hilton and Rachel Bilson, The Bling Ring is the stuff of writers' imaginations—with one exception—it’s a true story. The media asked: Why would a group of kids who already had designer clothes, money, cars and status take such risks? Award-winning journalist Nancy Jo Sales found the answer: They did it because they could. And because it was easy.

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