There’s a crispness in the air, fall is here!
Be sure to visit our full monthly calendar for all our upcoming activities HERE. This month’s calendar is chock full of games, music and singing, travel, Happy Hours, concerts, movies and more!
We have many other upcoming dates scheduled that allow us to enjoy this beautiful time of year! Join us!
Each Wednesday this month we encourage you to wear PINK in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Halloween Candy Drive through October 27th to help us collect candies for our Trick-or-Treaters. (no starburst, suckers, or skittles please)!
October 31st at 2:30pm we’ll host a Halloween Party and Costume Contest. Don your best costume, you may win a prize
Halloween night from 6pm-8pm we welcome Trick-or-Treaters from the neighborhood. Show off your costumes, and enjoy candy handed out by our residents
October 28th is our biggest celebration of the year with our Centennial Masquerade Ball at the beautiful La Canada Flintridge Country Club from 6pm to 10pm. Visit www.solheimsenior.org/masqueradeball for more details
November 16th: Across the Decades Music Review-with Music through the decades
December 9th from 1pm to 5pm-Spirit of Giving Christmas Boutique with photos with Santa from 2-4pm and great opportunities to do your Christmas shopping! CLICK HERE to learn more, or to become a Boutique Vendor!
Check out the full calendar for more activities HERE!
In celebration of Solheim Senior Community’s 100th Anniversary this year, the Solheim Book Group is continuing to join the celebration. At our September meeting, postponed from our August date, we discussed two books in keeping with the 100th Anniversary theme.
CLICK HERE to see the list of the ten Bestselling Books of 1923.
The first book, first published one hundred years ago, in 1923,was The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie.
The Murder on the Links is Christie’s second novel featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his would-be client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downward in a shallow grave on a golf course. The mystery deepens as Poirot encounters witnesses and suspects with various motives, a rival detective arrives on the scene with his own methods and theories, and the investigation uncovers a second, identically murdered corpse.
The second book, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, was awarded the John Newbery Medal in 1923 as the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The second in the series of what would grow to include thirteen beloved Dr. Dolittle books, the novel tells the story of Dr. Dolittle’s wonderful voyage to Spidermonkey Island, as told by Tommy Stubbins, a cobbler’s son, a boy who wanted to be a naturalist when he grew up, and who was promised by the kindly Dr. Dolittle to be taught all that Dr. Dolittle knew about animals and their languages.
The books both had mixed reviews, with some readers really enjoying them and some not as interested, which made for some great discussions. A favorite character was the talking parrot, Polynesia, from Dr. Dolittle. Our meeting was held just one day after Agatha Christie’s birthday and we enjoyed discussing some of her other books, based on a list of her favorites of her books, as she selected in 1972.
The Book Group will continue to read throughout this Solheim Centennial year books which were published in 1923 or were bestsellers or major award winners in 1923. The readers are excited to be part of this very special Centennial celebration. We were happy to welcome a new resident reader attending the Book Group for the first time.
The Book Group has selected for its October discussion Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis, which was a bestselling book in 1923. Its notoriety is believed to have contributed to Lewis eventually being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Babbitt is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques middle class life of the era and the social pressures toward conformity, through the tale of George F. Babbitt, an American businessman. The book led to the widespread use of the term “babbitt,” defined in leading dictionaries to refer to a person, especially a business or professional person, who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards.
The Book Group will meet on Saturday, October 21, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. at Solheim Senior Community in the Private Dining Room. All are welcome. Please ask at the front desk for a copy of the upcoming book. And please join us even if you have not read or finished the selected book. We always seem to have a lively general discussion or two!
We look forward to seeing everyone in September as we continue to celebrate Solheim’s 100 Years. Happy Reading!