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We welcome you to the Four Seasons community library. Our residents keep us up to date with new and older fiction hardbound books. Our non-fiction section is filled with biographies and a broad range of interesting topics. Check out the travel section on the bottom shelves. Many of you have added to our new topic! We thank you. Last month the Sunshine Team presented Kathye Caines, the director of the Hemet Public library, as their speaker. It was a real eye-opener on how much is available at the downtown library. You can even apply for passports! How about checking out movies? Their website provides a full list of services along with ways to donate time. Please go to hemetpubliclibrary.org I think you will be amazed. If you haven't visited the Hemet library please take time to see this beautiful building! We have reached an over flowing capacity situation of our hardbound books yet again. Books published in the 1980s and 1990s go directly downtown. Prolific authors books published before the year 2000 will be donated to the Hemet library as well. We wish we could display all books but we just don't have the room. We are instrumental in helping the Hemet library stay open with our donations. It's a win-win situation! Our magazine rack holds three months of donated material. As of this writing please bring, June, July and August. After reading them please be sure to return them for others to read. We would like to have the National Geographic Magazines back. Perhaps they were borrowed for visiting grandchildren. We miss them. All years are accepted as they are timeless. We currently accept paperback books from 2011 to 2015. At times we can hardly fit another book in and the next day it is so empty looking. Someone is donating lots of oversized paperbacks dated 2013! Thank you so much. Many of them are great for men. Make sure you check out the far right side of the paperback cabinet. For information about other areas please refer to our library directory next to our return box. The library committee is comprised of residents who enjoy reading and have a desire to keep our 55 plus library in order. We all enjoy working there and ask that you please let us do our job. Please don't put your books away, let us do our job. Committee member Cookie read The Dinner by Herman Koch. I must start this review by quoting Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl. "Chilling, nasty, smart, shocking, and unputdownable." That's Gillian's description of The Dinner. This book has been translated from the Dutch. The book revolves two brothers and their respective families. It follows the five course meal with tension building between each bite. It is a summer evening in Amsterdam and the dinner is at a very expensive restaurant. Paul Lohman, retired from teaching, and his wife, Claire, arrive first. The hostess is disappointed, as they are expecting Serge Lohman and his wife, Babette, for dinner. Serge is running for political office and quite famous. As the dinner starts we are aware of tension building around a situation regarding their teenage boys. Rick Lohman belonging to Serge and Babette and Michael Lohman belonging to Paul and Claire. Serge also has an adopted son, Beau. To find our way to the children's problems we travel through the adults lives to understand their solutions to "the problem." There were many situations that I did not see coming. I don't want to give anything away but it certainly isn't your usual teenage problem. The problem with the book Gone Girl is there wasn't anyone to like. I will say I did end up liking one person in The Dinner. It is a book that will be food for thought. What if they were your boys? I know what I would do! This book can be found in the oversize paperback section. At the conclusion of this book I suggest checking out a comedy! Library Committee | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | August 2015 | 14

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