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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | May 2019 | 13 The library committee wants to thank author Lynne Spreen for her wonderful talk presented March 14. Lynne only writes about people over 50, which here at Four Seasons we easily identify with! Lynne shared why we should celebrate some developments that comes with age. We so hope you were able to be there. We recommend you read her very first book, Dakota Blues. We no longer have the paperback for borrowing in our library but you can contact Lynne directly. You'll be hooked! We have some very interesting authors planned for the future. Both fiction and non-fiction writers so stay tuned. May brings Mother's Day. A great reason to buy a book. Does your wife have a favorite author? Daughter? Mom? This solves your gift giving. Another great idea would be to buy a new book for our library! We could use new 2019 hardbound books. Who needs gifts of candy and flowers when books are available! Please donate your March, April and May 2019 magazines to our library to be displayed at this time. The one exception are the National Geographic's. They are timeless, any year will be accepted. Remember we do take all other magazines, any month, to the downtown library. They are displayed and given free to the community. Four Seasons is always involved in helping our communities. We are still displaying paperback books from the years 2014 - 2018. As we receive new paperbacks we might need to adjust the year. We receive large amounts of old paperbacks when residents clean out their garage. They are bagged for donation and given to different places in hopes of helping Hemet communities. We still donate to the Hemet Library but not exclusively. As a reminder, the cabinet under the "P" section of hardbound books contain many albums of events that Four Seasons has had in the past. At present no one is compiling pictures for albums. You would enjoy perusing them and seeing how young we all were! Please remember, the library door is to remain open at all times. There is also no drinking or eating in the library. Thank you. We are experiencing more light in our days now. Your library committee thinks that gives you more time to read. Keep turning pages… Thought from Blair: "A book is a login to an exciting world, no password required." Committee member Julie read Before The Fall by Noah Hawley. Hawley's fifth novel Before the Fall begins on a foggy summer night, with a luxurious private jet awaiting passengers. There are 11 people who board the plane that will be in the air for 18 minutes before it crashes into the black Atlantic. Back stories of all 11 are woven among the many investigations of various agencies. Scott Burroughs survives the crash and fights to swim to the surface, finding the boy JJ amid the wreckage. With the boy on his back Scott begins the long, arduous swim to shore. He and four-year old JJ Bateman are the only survivors. At first Scott is hailed as a hero. Scott doesn't consider himself heroic, and he goes into hiding. Struggling as he is with sobriety and the shame of a life poorly lived, the last thing he wants is to be famous. Scott learns quickly, however, that there is no hiding out from the media. It instantly becomes a huge story. The loudmouthed, arch-conservative news anchor, Bill Cunningham, sees a chance to profit from the tragedy, spouting his opinion as "news," demanding answers, using words like "terrorism." He claims it can't be coincidence. He blames it on foreign nationals, then the liberal media, and then he finds a better target — Scott Burroughs, the would-be hero. Bill Cunningham is a portrait of American news/ entertainment media at its very worst. Library Committee