The Sunday Assembly Gainesville Book Club has chosen In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick as its selection for August. The club will meet Saturday, August 13 at 11 am via Zoom. Interested in joining? Contact the club via email at [email protected]. From GoodReads.com: In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea—and now, its epic adaptation for the screen—will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon. Ron Cunningham has graciously shared his slide deck from June's assembly... the link is below.
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SAGA President Carol Willis was delighted to present Sarah Wingfield of St. Francis Pet Care with a donation on behalf of our assembly. SFPC's mission is to help people in our most vulnerable communities remain together with their pets so both can benefit from the human-animal bond. Learn more about the clinic at their website. The SAGA Book Club selection for April is The Guernsey Literary and PotPeel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. The club will meet on Saturday, April 9 at 11am via Zoom. Interested in joining the club? Email [email protected] for further details. From GoodReads.com: January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb... As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. The SAGA Book Club's selection for March is The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner. The club will meet Saturday, March 12 at 11:00am via Zoom. Interested in joining? Email [email protected] for more information. From GoodReads: Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Roza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer's barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother's stories can sing the melodies Shira composes in her head. Roza does all she can to take care of Shira and shield her from the horrors of the outside world. They play silent games and invent their own sign language. But then the day comes when their haven is no longer safe, and Roza must face an impossible choice: whether to keep her daughter close by her side, or give her the chance to survive by letting her go . . . The Yellow Bird Sings is a powerfully gripping and deeply moving novel about the unbreakable bond between parent and child and the triumph of humanity and hope in even the darkest circumstances. As a follow-up to his presentation during SAGA's January assembly, Michael Cohen has kindly provided access to a document with handy links for the Gainesville community. The document includes links for contacting your representatives, information about storage, and much more. The link is below.
The SAGA Book Club has chosen The Liars' Club by Mary Karr as its February selection. The club will meet on Saturday, Feb. 12 at 11am via Zoom. From GoodReads: When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's—a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. Now with a new introduction that discusses her memoir's impact on her family, this unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as "funny, lively, and un-put-downable" (USA Today) today as it ever was. Interested in joining the SAGA book club? Email [email protected] for more information. |
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