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10 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | OCTOBER 2018 | In the September issue of Martha Stewart's Living magazine there is an article called A Novel Idea. The article shared "a 2016 Yale school of Public Health showed that reading a book for just 30 minutes a day increases your understanding of others, perhaps a longer life span of two years, reduces symptoms of depression and makes us feel part of a community." Four Seasons library motto has always been, "take time to read a book." This is the "spooky month" so perhaps you can buy a scary book, read it and then donate the book to our library. Thank you Four Seasons residents! We have been receiving so many current 2018 books lately. And great 2017 paperback books. If you haven't been down to our library do come and see what is new. We hope you enjoyed Jim Hitt's talk and walked away wanting more. In November Nancy Hawkins will be speaking about her dear friend, Millie Benson aka Carolyn Keene, the author of the Nancy Drew Mysteries. How many of us had children who grew up reading Nancy Drew? Don't miss this one and invite your grown children! Our hardbound fiction books are displayed from 2008-2018. If they are below the 2008 year they are donated to the Hemet Library. Our biographies, in the non-fiction section, are in alphabetical order according to the person written about. The non-fiction array of different subjects just won't remain alphabetical. We tried by author or subject and they get out of order pretty fast. The two tall gentlemen finally just gave up. We are able to display our paperback selection from 2014. We were really full and then one day it was almost empty. We have no idea what happened. It has slowly built back up. Please check your books at home to see if you have a couple of the Four Seasons paperbacks. Our travel section is truly full thanks to the residents for donating material. We are delighted to have a Classic section again thanks to our residents. Do peruse both of these sections. The magazines rack waxes and wanes. We will have a huge variety and then be depleted all in the same day at times! If you subscribe to magazines please bring them down. We display three months. Please bring your August, September and October magazines to the library at this time. This will be our ending each month. No one returned the missing books from the library coffee table. Please remember, our library works on the honor system. All books are the property of Four Seasons and have been purchased or donated by our residents. Please respect this. Our authors donated a copy of their books to be displayed on the library coffee table. The majority of them have been removed from our library. There were some great books for all to enjoy. Please return them. Thank you. Until next month lose some sleep and keep reading that book! From Blair, "Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest." Lady Bird Johnson Committee member Char read The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with is her mother, the formidable Lenore Simmons Krackenberry. Lenore is a lot of fun for other people, but she is decidedly overbearing for her daughter. One day, quite by accident, Sookie discovers she was adopted! Rather than confronting Lenore, Sookie begins looking for her family of origin. Her search takes her to California, the Midwest, and back in time to the 1940s, when a young woman named Fritzi takes on the job of running her family's filling station with her sisters. Truck drivers change their routes to fill up at the all-girls filling station. Then Fritzi sees an opportunity for an even more ground-breaking adventure — flying! Fritzi and her sisters, Gertrude, Tula, and Sophie all end up flying as Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPS.) Alternating chapters then tell the story of Sookie's search and the story of the WASPS. Sookie finds a whole new family and a fascinating history. Visit us often and enter a different world through the magic of books. Until next month… Cookie Library Committee