December News: Event Cancellation, Last Chance for Sharing Card & Other Announcements

Click here to donate & participate in the 2020 Holiday Sharing Card

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS:

SPARCC | Renae Lasday | 941-228-1947 | rlasday@icloud.com

SCC FOSTER ANGELS | Bree Meredith | 813-334-9886 | bree.meredith@hotmail.com

Virtual Book Club

Grab a book and stay connected to fellow members! Book Club is now meeting twice a month via ZOOM. All meetings are held on Fridays at 10 AM.

DECEMBER

18 | Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin | memoir & recipes

JANUARY

15 | Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn fiction, epistolary novel

29 | The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell | nonfiction & pop-psychology

FEBRUARY

12 | The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie | mystery

26 | Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in WWII by Vicki Croke | biography

MARCH

12 | The World to Come by Dara Horn psychological fiction

26 | The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy historical fiction

"Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hot-plate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong."

"Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere."

For more information or to join the book club zoom meeting, please contact Alison Vesco & Suzanne Drake, Book Club Co-Chairs, at bookclub.scmsa@gmail.com

For more information, please contact Barbara Darcey at scmsa.florida@gmail.com

Renew your dues and receive an SCMSA face mask and 2020-2021 Membership Directory.

Please visit myscmsa.org/membership to renew your dues for the 2020-2021 SCMSA year. You may also pay by check, made payable to SCMSA and mailed to

P.O. Box 110072, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34211.

SCMSA County Dues: $50

SCMSA & Florida Medical Association Alliance (FMAA) Dues: $100

Do you know someone who may be interested in joining? Please contact Bonnie Silverman, Membership Chair at bonnie.silverman@myscmsa.org for eligibility requirements and more information.

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