Author: Jane Fonda

I’m glad this book was given to me by a fellow Guild member; I would have felt it was a bad deal had I paid any of my own money for it. I was hoping for a continuation of her memoir but this is a ‘how to’ book on getting old. There’s no new information but a lot of research into things I already knew. The good news is that her workout exercises are adapted to be done while sitting on a chair!

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Author: Jane Fonda

I’ve been a Jane Fonda fan for a long time. I’m not sure why because of her over 40 movies I’ve seen very few – and I certainly wasn’t part of any of her workout series!

The book is full of pictures, is well written and easy to read. She talks about the high points (and explains the low points) in her life – so far.

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Author: Fredrik Backman

I loved the book as much as I loved the movie. The story was virtually unchanged from the movie and having an image of the characters added to my enjoyment.

It isn’t often I recommend seeing a movie before reading the book, but in this case I think the movie should come first.

This will probably be the last book I return to the “old” library. In less than ten days it will move from across the street to about twenty minutes walk away.

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Author: Marian Engel

This is a rather odd book although it won the Governor General’s Award for Literature in 1976. Basically it is the story of the summer Lou, a librarian, spent on a remote island cataloguing a personal library that was donated to the Institute. Part of her duties while living and working in the home was looking after the bear that lived in one of the shacks behind the house. Over the summer the relationship between the bear and Lou moves from fear and indifference to something completely different.

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