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Welcome to your beautiful Four Seasons library! It is created by you, the residents, and maintained by a committee that loves both Four Seasons and books. I think this will remain our opening paragraph as it really explains why we have the best 55+ community library. April brings tax day and Earth Day. Two great reasons to be buying books. We could use new 2016 hardbound books. Let's all decide to read a new author (to us) and then donate them to our special library. Please donate your February, March and April 2016 magazines to our library to be displayed at this time. Remember we do take all other magazines, any year, to the downtown library. They are displayed and given free to the community. Four Seasons is always involved in helping our communities. Our paperback selection is becoming over crowded once again. We are still displaying the years 2011-2016. As we receive new paperbacks we might need to adjust the year. We could still use audio books on CDs. Please, no more audio books on tape or videos on tape. We will be donating most of the audio books on cassettes to the Hemet library. A reminder, the library door is to remain open at all times. Thank you. The Board of Directors have all been kind to our library committee but we have had a special friend who shared our vision of a real library at Four Seasons. Hal Townend was the very first individual to work in the library — alone. I saw him displaying books and storing boxes of encyclopedia's in the cabinets below and knew I wanted to work in that room with him. Most know the story of trying to put books away around very large tables, meetings held there with doors shut and being used as a game room. There was a card table on the right side of the room that over-flowed with magazines. It was not a pretty room and certainly not a calm room. The committee went to the board over and over for a couple of years for approval of changes that we felt necessary. Hal visited the room often and we spoke about what it would take to become a real library. The library committee gives Hal a special thank you for always working with us and wanting that room to be special. It is special and now that Hal is retiring from the board we hope he will have time to spend in our beautiful, calm room. We are already experiencing more light in the days. Your library committee thinks that gives you more time to read! Keep turning pages. Committee member Kay Masonbrink reports: "For fans of English history, Elizabeth l by Margaret George (Viking, 2011) is a must read. Though this is a novel, the compelling story is based on vast historical research and opens in 1588 when she is 55 years old and has been queen for 30 years. It is the height of the flowering Elizabethan age and amazing events are happening. The book is written in the voices of Elizabeth and her look-alike cousin/ nemesis Lettice Knollys and presents their thoughts, actions and attitudes. At 670 pages, this is not a quick read but I found it to be an amazing story, especially as these women interacted regularly with fascinating people like Drake, Shakespeare, Raleigh, Marlowe and Bacon. Now, my teaser about this book: you have all heard the romantic tale of Sir Walter Raleigh gallantly throwing his cape down over a mud puddle so that Elizabeth would not get her feet dirty, and many of us have wondered if that was really true. If you read this book you will find the answer to this age old question." Library Committee | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | April 2016 | 14

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