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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | April 2019 | 13 Anyone notice that I sent the same article for March that was printed in February? I certainly did when I read the newsletter! Here is the real March… for April! Humor is so important in life! The library committee honored our dear friend, Jeanne Lincoln, at a thank you luncheon recently. We have so enjoyed our author's talks but there is always "work" behind the scenes. I asked Jeanne, as a friend, to help with a bio of each author so we could display their information for our residents. Without hesitation she said, "of course." Each author has had a beautiful bio made by Jeanne. We appreciate who you are Jeanne! Thank you for your beautiful work. Isn't it a great time of year to be reading a good book? And, we have Easter this month. Fill that Easter basket with books and magazines. After you read them bring them to your Four Season's library. The activity in the library lately has been unbelievable! One committee member can work for an hour bringing things to order and in a couple of hours another member will work another hour shelving and straightening. Actually, it is not uncommon for three of us to work the library in one day. And, we love it. Please don't try to help us by putting away your books. That's our job. Enjoy the books and put them in our return basket. While eating lunch out my waiter asked where I lived. When I replied "Four Seasons" he had just delivered food here and was given a tour. He said our community was so fantastic and even had a real library that people sat and read in. Must admit I felt proud. Some background on our library committee… After our friend, Hal Townend, was elected to the BOD I was left alone in the library. I formed a library committee in 2008. Those who were part of the 2008 group and are still with the committee are: Blair Becker, Rosemary Luscombe and Char Weakley. I believe Rosemary was our secretary for eight years. We have added Lis Woelke, Kay Masonbrink, Betty Crase, Betty Barr, Anita Decker, Julie Kreun, Bernadette Koretke and our secretary, Sue Corum. We need every member to keep it looking good. Many wonderful people have been with us and moved on. We need Blair as our only male to keep us in line! A wonderful group. We are receiving so many up to date books both paperback and hardbound. Our residents support their library completely. It's almost "ask and ye shall receive." Thank you so much. Hardbound books are displayed from 2009 and up. Our paperback books are displayed from 2014 up. Non-fiction books are not kept by date. Come check out our new books. I have been reading some great books donated by you. We work hard to keep our displayed magazines current. Please only put magazines dated within the last three months. As of now we are displaying magazines dated February, March, and April 2019. We prefer you to place magazines on the return table and don't put them in our rack. We will take outdated magazines to the Hemet Library as well. The only exception would be National Geographic magazines. Their articles are not time sensitive and the topics are of interest to all. Keep reading! Thought from Blair: "If you think you know everything, you clearly haven't been to a library for a long time." Committee member Anita Decker read In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills by Jennifer Haupt. Set in the aftermath of the Martin Luther King assassination, Lillian, embittered, sets out for Africa to start an orphanage for children in the forests of Rwanda. Caught in the throes of criminal trials and the aftermath of a bloody civil war she seeks solace for her own tribulations. Rachael seeks out Lillian some 30 years later after her father's disappearance from her and her mother's life to learn of her father's whereabouts. She eventually sojourns to Rwanda to seek answers in person that are not forthcoming. Here she meets a Tutsi woman who has endured atrocities during the civil war in which her father, Henry or Papa Henry as the locals refer to him, also played a part as a renowned photographer. A debut novel about three courageous women by an author who says she went to Rwanda in 2006 to interview humanitarian workers, and survivors of genocide – but mainly she was "exploring the connection between grief and forgiveness." Library Committee

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