Retro-Reads

How well do you remember your high school books? Do you remember Holden, Atticus, Hagar, Francie, and other ‘ghosts’ from your literary past? Come to the Muskoka Lakes Public Library and you may be pleasantly surprised if you re-visit those books. Chances are you will have a different perspective on them now compared to when it was required reading in school. Or, perhaps, you have realized that you have not read many of the ‘classic’ books. Have fun identifying the books by the few lines given. (The answers are at the end of the column.)

1. “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience”.

2. "In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up.” It was the best advice Francie every got

3. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”

4. “I know this … a man got to do what he got to do.”

5. “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

6. “Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes”.

ANSWERS: [1.] Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus. [2.] Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Chapter 26. [3] Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23, spoken by the character Atticus.[ 4] John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath ,Chapter 18. [5] J.D.Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 1, opening words of book. [6] .John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 1

Thank you to all those from the community who took the time and effort to be part of the Muskoka Lakes Public Library Let’s Talk discussions yesterday. Your input for the vision of the library’s future is invaluable and greatly appreciated!

Ontario Public Library events continue today with special ‘guest’ library workers. Who will check your library books out today?

Special Evening Story Time: Teddy Bear Sleepover Thursday, October 20 at 6:15 pm Bring your favourite Teddy or another favourite furry friend to a pyjama story time. Then, when it's time for you to go, the Teddies spend the night in the library in Port Carling for their very own sleepover… no humans allowed! Pick up your friends the next day after 10:00 am and find out what fun they had in the library overnight!

Creative Kids Club Saturdays Muskoka Lakes Public Library Port Carling 11-12:30. Children 8 and up welcome. FREE but please