 The Sunday Assembly Gainesville Book Club has chosen “Isabella’s Painting: A Notorious Art Heist Mystery” by Ellen Butler for October's discussion. The book is the first in the Karina Cardinal Mystery series.
The meeting will take place Saturday, Oct. 9 at 11:00 am via Zoom. The club will also vote on books to read in the future. Interested in joining? Email hennie_mo@bellsouth.net for more information. From GoodReads.com: In 1990 Boston's Gardner Museum was robbed of $500 million worth of artwork. Twenty-eight years later the art remains at large ... until now. Peeling back layers of lies could save a masterpiece or reveal a killer.  The official August selection for SAGA's book club is Hamnet—a novel of the Plague by Maggie O’Farrell. The book club will meet on Saturday, Aug. 14 at 10:30 via Zoom.
Interested in joining? Email hennie_mo@bellsouth.net for more information. From Amazon: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life… here is a novel … so gorgeously written that it transports you." --The Boston Globe In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. After a hiatus of fifteen months, Sunday Assembly Gainesville is happy to announce the return of in-person assemblies. Our July assembly, Sunday, July 18, at 11:00 am, will be at the Pride Community Center of North Central Florida (PCCNCF), located in the Liberty Center at 3131 NW 13th Street.
In keeping with CDC guidance, those who are fully vaccinated are welcome to attend without a mask. Attendees who are not fully vaccinated are required to wear masks.  The SAGA Book Club continues via Zoom. The next book club meeting is Saturday, July 10 at 11:00 am.
July's book selection is Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. From the author's website: From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history Interested in participating? Contact Hennie Monkhorst at Hennie_MO@bellsouth.net. Pippa Evans, co-founder of Sunday Assembly and successful stage improv comic in London, will share practical life hacks from her new book Improv Your Life as part of Sunday Assembly Gainesville's June Assembly, June 20 at 11 am via Zoom. Email sundayassembly32601@gmail.com for Zoom info. Pippa Evans is an award winning improviser, performer and author of Improv Your Life: An Improviser’s Guide To Embracing Whatever Life Throws At You. In 2013, Pippa and Sanderson Jones started Sunday Assembly, the church for people who don’t believe in God which became a global phenomenon. Though no longer involved in the Sunday Assembly project, Pippa finds herself drawn to the Venn Diagram of secular spirituality, improvisation and inner work. How can we be fully ourselves in relation to others? Can we do serious work without taking ourselves too seriously? Pippa is a core member of Showstopper The Improvised Musical and regularly appears on BBC Radio 4. Learn more about Pippa at her website, www.pippaevans.com. 
 April's selection for the SAGA Book Club is Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. The club will meet Saturday, April 10 @ 11:00 am via Zoom.
From Amazon: From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Interested in joining the discussion? Email hennie_mo@bellsouth.net for more information.  Join Sunday Assembly Gainesville for a virtual Sunday Brunch, this Sunday, March 7, at 10:30 am via Zoom.
Though we can't meet in person just yet, the virtual brunch is a great way to catch up with fellow Sunday Assembly members, share experiences, and enjoy some warm beverages together. It's ok to attend while wearing pajamas. Want to join? Email sundayassembly32601@gmail.com for Zoom information.  The official selection for March for the Sunday Assembly virtual Book Club is Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus by Lynn Sherrer. The Book Club will meet virtually using the Zoom platform on Saturday, March 13 @ 11:00 am.
March's book selection is Book 1 of an urban fantasy series full of adventure and snarky humor. From Amazon.com: Saving the world is such a bother when it makes you late for tea. Wizard Lily Singer is kept busy managing library archives, studying magic, and trying to keep her witch friend Sebastian from dragging her into trouble. Unfortunately, he loves adventure even more than she loves being left alone. She doesn't want to investigate a malignant spell in a haunted house, but Sebastian is promising rare books as the reward. She also doesn't want to hurt her family, but is tired of being lied to about her past. And she definitely doesn't want to get stuck in a dangerously unstable time loop, but Sebastian is in trouble--again... Strangling her friend, as satisfying as it would be, won't fix her problems. If she wants answers, and to not miss tea, she had best find the right spell for the job--before everything goes to hell, and takes them all with it. Interested in joining? Email hennie_mo@bellsouth.net to get the Zoom information.
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