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14 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | AUGUST 2017 | We hope everyone is enjoying our new library chairs. The colors work in well with the décor and they certainly support your back. The other chairs were ripped underneath and the arms were wearing thin. We do ask that you follow the rules and don't drink or eat in the library. The new furniture will thank you! Once again the paperback section is full thanks to our residents. We are slowly eliminating paperbacks dated 2012. We are receiving wonderful current year books that make it necessary to make room to display them. Our paperbacks are now dated 2013 - 2017 with a few 2012 still there. You make our library the best of any 55+ community and believe me I check them all. Though we accept older magazines for the Hemet library we display three months of magazines for our residents. As of now, bring up June, July and August. We would appreciate you not bringing your catalogs. Our hardbound books add a challenge to the library committee. The prolific writers seem to have a contest on who can write the largest book. We keep all hardbound books dated 2006 and up, and we are donating older books to the Hemet Library. The volunteers at the Hemet library cannot thank us (Four Seasons) enough. We really do make a difference for them. We keep all non-fiction books regardless of dates. History is important. If you have a lot of books, it would be better to take them directly downtown. Thank you. If you cannot get downtown we will take them if you bring them to our library. We could certainly use a few more audio CD books. Recently there have been wonderful donations but we still have room. Do not bring audio books on tape anymore. It was thought nobody has tape players anymore. All books on tape were donated downtown. Thoughts from Blair; "People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned." Saul Bellow Our book reports are written about books you can borrow here at Four Seasons. This month Bernadette read X by Sue Grafton. This is Grafton's 24th novel featuring private investigator Kinsey Milhone. Following the alphabet, Grafton (her first book was A is for Alibi), wastes no time identifying a possible sociopath. The test for Kinsey is to prove his guilt before she becomes his next victim. Many old friends are featured in X. Kinsey's former boyfriend, Cheney Phillips, Rose, the café owner, and Henry, her kindhearted landlord, are all along for the ride. When Kinsey discovers some personal items in a box owned by a recently murdered private investigator, and a paper containing the names of six women, she realizes all of them are deceased and connected to a husband of one of the dead women. We are off to the races finding out where the women met, how they die, and looking for a link to the suspect. X is dark, chilling and clever. Unlike her other books, Grafton has not followed X with a word. We the readers can choose the word. Can't wait for "Y" and "Z." Stay out of the heat, come to our library and read a book! Until next month… ~ Cookie Library Committee

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