Dufferin Clark’s Wednesday At the Movies programming continues! Every other Wednesday evening, starting at 6:30 pm, we will screen a movie and offer juice and popcorn to snack on. We hope to see you there!

September 26 – Adventures of Tintin (PG – Parental Guidance) (106 min)

Tintin and his friends discover directions to a sunken ship commanded by Capt. Haddock’s ancestor and go off on a treasure hunt.

 October 10 –  Journey 2 The Mysterious Island (PG = Parental Guidance) (96 min)

Four years after Sean Anderson journeyed with his uncle to the center of the Earth, he receives a coded distress signal from a place even more incredible and remote: an uncharted island where no island should exist, teeming with strange life forms and hiding more than one astonishing secret. Despite his stepfather’s protests, Sean, now 17, is determined to reach this mysterious island and rescue its lone inhabitant before the rising seismic storm forces it back under the sea and buries its treasures forever.

Suspense filled thriller by Linwood Barclay !   For 25 years  Cynthia did not now what happened to her family.  They had practically disappeared overnight.  She awoke  to find the house empty and her parents and brother gone without a trace.  She feels now that she is being followed and is finally ready to confront the truth… or is she .

Age Group:
Adult

Genre:
Autobiography, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Psychology, American

Summary:
Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, shares her remarkable true story of rape and its aftermath, a trauma that clung to her throughout her young adult years. Sebold’s honest, forthright account of the experience is as unsettling as it is compelling. Only 19 years old at the time of the rape, Sebold’s response to the violent crime reveals a strength and determination well beyond her years.

My Thoughts:
This is the first memoir I’ve read about rape and its subsequent effects on a person’s quality of a life. It was interesting to read about it from a well known author whose novel The Lovely Bones also contains a rape scene. Sebold’s description of her rape is shocking and enraging, and her bold attempts to recover can only be described as tenacious acts of bravery.

Borrow Lucky from your local Vaughan library today!

For a high intensity fiction read, try The Lovely Bones, a chilling story of a young girl’s murder told from her perspective in heaven. Watch the movie too!