Simon vs. The Homo Sapien Agenda (Love, Simon) by Becky Albertalli- Reshelved Books

Helloooooo.

So, last week we learned that Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist was a movie I had seen but a book that I had not read.

This week I'm focusing on the book and the movie that made me think of doing this book and it's movie month.

Drum roll please.... 

*drum roll*

Simon vs. The Homo Sapien Agenda and it's accompanying movie Love, Simon!

Guys... this movie was very cute!  My supervisor at work suggested that I watch the movie because as she said "it's cute".  She did not lie, the movie was very cute. (We have already established that though, didn't we?)

A few months ago, the book had come through as a donation.  I grabbed the donation, where it lived in my desk for some time before I actually had the availability to read it. 

For Simon, I followed the universal rule of reading the book before watching the movie. (Which is totally worth it). 

In Simon vs. The Homo Sapien Agenda, Simon has a secret, that he's not ready to share yet, he's gay.  Simon, under the pen name "Jacques", confides to another student at his high school, "Blue".  Simon doesn't know who Blue is and at first, he's okay with that.  As time goes on, he starts to develop feelings for Blue and protecting who he is, is becoming harder. 

In a twist of events, Simon is outed by one of his classmates.  His outing threatens the relationship that he has developed with Blue- especially once Blue puts two and two together. 

The book brings to light real issues, there wasn't anything that was sugarcoated. You could feel Simon’s emotions. The book was about more than what I’m typing out here now. I think it’s important to mention that. 

Love, Simon stayed pretty close to the content of the book.  There were a few differences- the biggest on that I found was that in the movie, Simon had one sister and in the book, he has two...

I must say, Albertalli did a great job of keeping me guessing and wondering who Blue was!  I was following Simon and I was totally agreeing with who he thought they might be.  I never would have ever guessed who it actually was! (No, I will not be giving the spoiler here). 

Book: 4 out of 5 coffee beans!
Movie: 4 out of 5 popcorn kernels!

I liked both the book and the movie.  I would definitely recommend them :) 

~ Jillian