in honor of jewish book month, we are honored to have in our conversation, howard friedman, the executive director of the jewish community library. welcome, howard. >> why don't you jump in and talked with new at the community library? >> we always have things happening at the library. but i'm excited about is the beginning of our book program for the year. it's a lot like the number of communities doing this where they encourage people to read a single book over the course of a particular time, and what we do is choose a jewish oriented book and encourage people to read it and discuss it. our selection this year is actually the periodic table. it was an italian writer born in 1919. he grew up in the fascist area -- era. he wrote a number of books on his experience, but this is him like any of those that he wrote. >> and so what is one day one book. >> the idea is we want people to be not only reading books but discussing them, so the idea is that we encourage people to pick up this book and either get together with friends or if they are part of an institution like a synagogue or communi