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NEWSLETTER No. 50 November 1991 Dear Friend of the Library, BOOK SALE This was a big one and the net profit was $3,130; when this is added to the $1,652 earned by the June paperback sale we have a 1991 record total of $4,782, better than 1990 ($3,270), 1989 ($3,577), 1988 ($4,500) and 1987 ($4,775). Congratulations and many thanks to Natalie Logan and her faithful, dedicated and hardworking band of supporters and helpers, also to the willing group of Air Cadets who, like me, began to wonder if we would ever get the dungeon emptied! This sale will probably be the last for some time, at least until the Library renovations are completed. CASINO NIGHT We now have a date or dates to work with, during the period of January 6th to 8th, 1992, and a location which is the Royal Diamond Casino on Davie Street, Vancouver. Hours of work will be from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., and five of our volunteers will need to start by 5 p.m. Two people will have to go for "orientation" on December 18th or 19th. Final details have to be studied and we will be contacting volunteers next month to firm it all up, possibly having a special meeting before the night (or nights). The dates either side of Christmas and New Year may be a bit awkward, but we must ensure that this important opportunity to make a significant contribution to our Library is not wasted, now that we have waited so long. Remember, the new Bookmobile is relying on US! BOOK REVIEW I hope you will find the following extracts from a book review amusing, as I did. The review is titled "Age Cannot Wither Germaine Greer" and is written by Moira Shearer. The new book being review., is titled "The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause" by Germaine Greer. Moira Shearer does not share Dr. Greer's alarming views about the inevitable effects of the menopause. Is it possible to write 440 dense pages about ageing women and the menopause? Yes - and to alarming effect if you are the remarkable Dr. Greer. Her erudition and scholarship are awe-inspiring, her clinical detail stomach-churning and her choice of quotes, from medieval herbalists and medical lecturers to diarists, novelists, poets, even narcissistic film stars, both delight and stretch the mind. But through this massive study runs a thread of frustrated anger -- an anger which frequently contradicts itself. Dr. Greer writes briefly of death, the one inevitability of life. The next moment she seems unable to accept the equal inevitability of ageing and displays her usual faint contempt for men and their ineptitude while at the same time bemoaning