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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | MARCH 2018 | 11 Welcome to your Four Seasons beautiful 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. Every book we have has been purchased by Four Seasons residents or a donated book that was perhaps a gift to a resident. We have a fantastic assortment of books both fiction and nonfiction and we simply work on the honor system. Find a book you like, take it home and return the book when read. Both paperback and hardbound books disappear and never return. Recently we have discovered our library books at garage sales, estate sales and book stores. This is a real disservice to our residents. The committee requests that everyone follows the honor system and please, please return our books. We have even had a library in Texas return one of our books that apparently moved with the resident. We thank you for respecting our library. Easter comes early this year and we have a great idea! Instead of Easter baskets and eggs let's go buy a new 2018 book to read. It can be hardbound or paperback. Take time to enjoy them and then share them with your Four Seasons residents by bringing them to our beautiful library. Please donate your January, February and March 2018 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. Once again we'd like to thank our residents for donating National Geographic magazines. We have so many that we are rotating them. Our paperback selection is displaying the years 2013 - 2017. It had become over flowing so we are removing the 2013 ones a few at a time to make room for the current year to be displayed. I, for one, am really enjoying reading 2017 paperbacks. We have been delighted with the hardbound books being donated and want to shelve as many as possible. We now display books from 2007 and up. If you treasure a "series," please keep the set if they are below that year. We are already experiencing more light in the days. Your library committee thinks that gives you more time to read! Keep turning pages… Thoughts from Blair: "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." ~ Charles W. Eliot On a sad note Sue Grafton left this earth recently. So many of us couldn't wait for her next alphabet series to be published. Her wish was to not have anything written after her demise, so the series ends with "Y." You have contributed so much to us and will be in our hearts for a very long time Ms. Grafton! Thank you. Committee member Sue Lestercort read The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (hardcover). This wonderful book received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It is the story of Cora, who is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells Cora about the underground railroad. They decide to take a risk and escape. The plan takes a turn for the worse when Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Now, they are being hunted. Cora and Caesar manage to find a station and head north. The railroad is not a metaphor but a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the ground all over the southern states. As Cora and Caesar head north, they make several stops along the way as the slave catcher gains on them. This is the tale of one woman's journey through time and space and her ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage. Library Committee