BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Meetup//Meetup Calendar 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH NAME:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club X-WR-CALNAME:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_307976727@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261021T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261021T203000 SUMMARY:MIDTOWN October 2026 — All the Colors of the Dark\, by Chris Whi taker DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n📖 Why this book? 📖 \n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD • FROM TH E AUTHOR OF WE BEGIN AT THE END COMES A SOARING THRILLER AND AN EPIC LOVE STORY THAT "HITS LIKE A SLEDGEHAM-MER... AN ABSOLUTELY MUST-READ NOVEL" (G ILLIAN FLYNN\, AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL).\nRead with Jenna Book Club Pick as Fe atured on Today\nA Best Book of the Year: Washington Post\, She Reads\, Ki rkus Reviews\n\n"Kept me frantically turning the pages and somehow made me cry at the end...\nBrava!" — Kristin Hannah\, author of The Women\n\n"M elds tense suspense with a powerful exploration of devotion\, obsession\, and love." — People\n\nHard to find a book? [Suggest a title](https://ww w.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recommendations/Recommend-a-Title) or use [Zip Books](https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recommenda tions/Recommend-a-Title) at your local library.\n\n💠 What can I expect? 💠\n\nWe will meet in-person *after hours* in Time Tested Books. Front door will be unlocked\, and staff will point the way.\n\n💬 We catch up socially\;\n🧊 we recommend a book or author\, and\n📕 we start our bo ok discussion at 7pm.\n\n👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜\n\n◾️A snack or dr ink to share\n◾️$5 (cash or [Venmo](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) * 8913)\n◾️And you could bring your book 😄\n\n✴️ Event Fee Detail s ✴️\n\nThe $5 is split between our access to this Meetup platform and our access to the meeting location.\n\nYou can venmo me ([https://venmo.c om/u/Rebecca-Bon](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913) or bring cash.\n \nHowever❕We would never want you to miss a book club discussion because of the $5\, so please message me if you have any concerns\n\nThanks\, and see you all soon!\n\n📚 ** BOOK SUMMARY ** 📚\n\n1975 is a time of ch ange in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe F razier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare\, Missouri\, girls are disappe aring.\nWhen the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted\, the most unlik ely hero emerges - Patch\, a local boy\, who saves the girl\, and\, in doi ng so\, leaves heartache in his wake.\nPatch and those who love him soon d iscover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. An d that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean l osing one another.\nA missing person mystery\, a serial killer thriller\, a love story\, a unique twist on each\, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of ho pe.\nREVIEWS\nKirkus Reviews * Publisher's Weekly\nAudioFile Magazine URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/307976727/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20250522T091100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T091100Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_313864121@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T200000 SUMMARY:GRANITE BAY October 2026 — All the Colors of the Dark\, by Chris Whitaker DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n📖 Why this book? 📖 \n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD • FROM TH E AUTHOR OF WE BEGIN AT THE END COMES A SOARING THRILLER AND AN EPIC LOVE STORY THAT "HITS LIKE A SLEDGEHAMMER... AN ABSOLUTELY MUST-READ NOVEL" (GI LLIAN FLYNN\, AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL).\nRead with Jenna Book Club Pick as Fea tured on Today\nA Best Book of the Year: Washington Post\, She Reads\, Kir kus Reviews\n\n"Kept me frantically turning the pages and somehow made me cry at the end...\nBrava!" — Kristin Hannah\, author of The Women\n\n"Me lds tense suspense with a powerful exploration of devotion\, obsession\, a nd love." — People\n\nHard to find a book? [Suggest a title](https://www .saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recommendations/Recommend-a-Title) or use [Zip Books](https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recommendat ions/Recommend-a-Title) at your local library.\n\n💠 What can I expect? 💠\n\nWe will meet in-person in the ‘Gather Room’ at the back left o f the store.\n\n💬 We catch up socially\;\n🧊 we recommend a book or a uthor\, and\n📕 we start our book discussion at 6:30pm.\n\n👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜\n\n◾️A Raley’s snack or bev to share\n◾️$5 (cash o r [Venmo](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913)\n◾️And you could bri ng your book 😄\n\n✴️ Event Fee Details ✴️\n\nThe $5 is split be tween our access to this Meetup platform and our access to the meeting loc ation.\n\nYou can venmo me ([https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon](https://venm o.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913) or bring cash.\n\nHowever❕We would never wan t you to miss a book club discussion because of the $5\, so please message me if you have any concerns\n\nThanks\, and see you all soon!\n\n📚 **B OOK SUMMARY** 📚\n\n1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare\, Missouri\, girls are disappearing.\nWhen the daughter of a w ealthy family is targeted\, the most unlikely hero emerges - Patch\, a loc al boy\, who saves the girl\, and\, in doing so\, leaves heartache in his wake.\nPatch and those who love him soon discover that the line between tr iumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.\nA missing pe rson mystery\, a serial killer thriller\, a love story\, a unique twist on each\, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.\nREVIEWS\nKirkus Reviews * P ublisher's Weekly\nAudioFile Magazine URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/313864121/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260320T055323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T055323Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_307976730@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261118T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261118T203000 SUMMARY:MIDTOWN November 2026 — Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n📖 Why this book? 📖 \n\nThe rollicking saga of reality television\, a\n"sweeping" (The Washing ton Post) cultural history of America's most influential\, most divisive a rtistic phenomenon\, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer — "a must-read for anyone interested in television or popular culture" (NPR )\n"Passionate\, exquisitely told... With muscular prose and an exacting e ye for detail...\n[Nussbaum] knits her talents for sharp analysis and tell ing reportage well." — The New York Times (Editors' Choice)\nIn developm ent as a docuseries from the studio behind Spencer and Spotlight\nONE OF T HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\n\nA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\, NPR\, TH E NEW YORKER\, VANITY FAIR\, THE BOSTON GLOBE\n\nFINALIST FOR THE ANDREW C ARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION\n\nHard to find a book? [Sugges t a title](https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recommendations/ Recommend-a-Title) or use [Zip Books](https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Med ia/Reading-Recommendations/Recommend-a-Title) at your local library.\n\n 💠 What can I expect? 💠\n\nWe will meet in-person *after hours* in Ti me Tested Books. Front door willl be unlocked\, and staff will point the w ay.\n\n💬 We catch up socially\;\n🧊 we recommend a book or author\, a nd\n📕 we start our book discussion at 7pm.\n\n👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜\n\n◾️A snack or drink to share\n◾️$5 (cash or [Venmo](https:/ /venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913)\n◾️And you could bring your book 😄 \n\n✴️ Event Fee Details ✴️\n\nThe $5 is split between our access to this Meetup platform and our access to the meeting location.\n\nYou can venmo me ([https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-B on) *8913) or bring cash.\n\nHowever❕We would never want you to miss a b ook club discussion because of the $5\, so please message me if you have a ny concerns.\n\nThanks\, and see you all soon!\n\n📚 ** BOOK SUMMARY ** 📚\n\nWho invented reality television\, the world's most dangerous pop-c ulture genre? And why can't we look away? In this revelatory\, deeply repo rted account of the rise of "dirty documentary" — from its contentious r oots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump — Emily Nussbaum unearths th e origin story of the genre that ate the world\, as told through the livel y voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic\, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged\, funny\, and sometimes tragic c onsequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake.\n\nIn sh arp\, absorbing prose\, Nussbaum traces the jagged fuses of experimentatio n that exploded with Survivor at the turn of the millennium. She introduce s the genre's trickster pioneers\, from the icy Allen Funt to the shamboli c Chuck Barris\;\nCops auteur John Langley\; cynical Bachelor ringmaster M ike Fleiss\; and Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim\, the visionaries behind The Real World — along with dozens of stars from An American Family\, Th e Real World\, Big Brother\, Survivor\, and The Bachelor. We learn about t he tools of the trade - like the Frankenbite\, a deceptive editor's best f riend - and ugly tales of exploitation. But Cue the Sun! also celebrates r eality's peculiar power: a jolt of emotion that could never have come from a script.\n\nWhat happened to the first reality stars\, the Louds — and why won't they speak to the couple who filmed them? Which serial killer w on on The Dating Game? Nussbaum explores reality TV as a strike-breaker\, the queer roots of Bravo\, the dark truth behind The Apprentice\, and more . A shrewd observer who adores television\, Nussbaum is the ideal voice fo r the first substantive history of the genre that\, for better or worse\, made America what it is today. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/307976730/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20250522T091217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T091217Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_313864116@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T200000 SUMMARY:GRANITE BAY November 2026 — Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n📖 Why this book? 📖 \n\nThe rollicking saga of reality television\, a\n"sweeping" (The Washing ton Post) cultural history of America's most influential\, most divisive a rtistic phenomenon\, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer — "a must-read for anyone interested in television or popular culture" (NPR )\n"Passionate\, exquisitely told... With muscular prose and an exacting e ye for detail...\n[Nussbaum] knits her talents for sharp analysis and tell ing reportage well." — The New York Times (Editors' Choice)\nIn developm ent as a docuseries from the studio behind Spencer and Spotlight\nONE OF T HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\n\nA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\, NPR\, TH E NEW YORKER\, VANITY FAIR\, THE BOSTON GLOBE\n\nFINALIST FOR THE ANDREW C ARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION\n\nHard to find a book? [Sugges t a title](https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recommendations/ Recommend-a-Title) or use [Zip Books](https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Med ia/Reading-Recommendations/Recommend-a-Title) at your local library.\n\n 💠 What can I expect? 💠\n\nWe will meet in-person in the ‘Gather Ro om’ at the back left of the store.\n\n💬 We catch up socially\;\n🧊 we recommend a book or author\, and\n📕 we start our book discussion at 6:30pm.\n\n👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜\n\n◾️A Raley’s snack or bev to share\n◾️$5 (cash or [Venmo](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913)\ n◾️And you could bring your book 😄\n\n✴️ Event Fee Details ✴ ️\n\nThe $5 is split between our access to this Meetup platform and our access to the meeting location.\n\nYou can venmo me ([https://venmo.com/u/ Rebecca-Bon](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913) or bring cash.\n\nHow ever❕We would never want you to miss a book club discussion because of t he $5\, so please message me if you have any concerns.\n\nThanks\, and see you all soon!\n\n📚 ** BOOK SUMMARY ** 📚\n\nWho invented reality tel evision\, the world's most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can't we l ook away? In this revelatory\, deeply reported account of the rise of "dir ty documentary" — from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of D onald Trump — Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world\, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic\, Cue the Sun! explores the morall y charged\, funny\, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for some thing real inside something fake.\n\nIn sharp\, absorbing prose\, Nussbaum traces the jagged fuses of experimentation that exploded with Survivor at the turn of the millennium. She introduces the genre's trickster pioneers \, from the icy Allen Funt to the shambolic Chuck Barris\;\nCops auteur Jo hn Langley\; cynical Bachelor ringmaster Mike Fleiss\; and Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim\, the visionaries behind The Real World — along with do zens of stars from An American Family\, The Real World\, Big Brother\, Sur vivor\, and The Bachelor. We learn about the tools of the trade - like the Frankenbite\, a deceptive editor's best friend - and ugly tales of exploi tation. But Cue the Sun! also celebrates reality's peculiar power: a jolt of emotion that could never have come from a script.\n\nWhat happened to t he first reality stars\, the Louds — and why won't they speak to the cou ple who filmed them? Which serial killer won on The Dating Game? Nussbaum explores reality TV as a strike-breaker\, the queer roots of Bravo\, the d ark truth behind The Apprentice\, and more. A shrewd observer who adores t elevision\, Nussbaum is the ideal voice for the first substantive history of the genre that\, for better or worse\, made America what it is today. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/313864116/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260320T055214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T055214Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_312213669@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261212T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261212T201500 SUMMARY:✨Book Club Holiday Party!!!✨ DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n🥳 It's Party Time! Th e holidays are here\, and we get to celebrate with our favorite group of r eaders!\n\n📣 Anyone who has attended at least one of our Meetups is wel come to join us for this get-together.\n\n🍴🍀 Bring your favorite dri nk and dish to share. (Comment here with what you are bringing\, so we hav e a balance of savory and sweet.)\n\n🎁 Optional Gift Exchange for added fun! If you’d like to participate\, bring a wrapped $20 gift (popular i tems include puzzles\, handicrafts\, and book-themed gifts from locally-ow ned businesses and/or gently-used. And remember we get 20% off at Time Tes ted Books!)\n\n🥂 Significant others are welcome — please include them in your RSVP.\n\n👗 Attire: wear what most makes you feel you shine ✨ \n\n📍I will message you with the address a few days before the party.\n \n🎉 Looking forward to seeing you there! URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/312213669/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20251128T212426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251128T212426Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_312788862@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261216T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261216T203000 SUMMARY:MIDTOWN December 2026 — How Much of These Hills Is Gold\, by C P am Zhang DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n📖 Why this book? 📖 \n\nA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR\nA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE B OOK OF THE YEAR\nONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE\nBOOKS OF THE YEAR\nONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020\nLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE\nFINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE\nWINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD\, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS\n A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER\n"B elongs on a shelf all of its own." — NPR\n"Outstanding." — The Washing ton Post\n"Revolutionary... A visionary addition to American literature." — Star Tribune\nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landsca pe - trying not just to survive but to find a home.\n\nHard to find a book ? [Suggest a title](https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recomme ndations/Recommend-a-Title) or use [Zip Books](https://www.saclibrary.org/ Books-Media/Reading-Recommendations/Recommend-a-Title) at your local libra ry.\n\n💠 What can I expect? 💠\n\nWe will meet in-person *after hours * in Time Tested Books. Front door will be unlocked\, and staff will point the way.\n\n💬 We catch up socially\;\n🧊 we recommend a book or auth or\, and\n📕 we start our book discussion at 7pm.\n\n👜 WHAT DO I BRIN G? 👜\n\n◾️A snack or drink to share\n◾️$5 (cash or [Venmo](http s://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913)\n◾️And you could bring your book 😄\n\n✴️ Event Fee Details ✴️\n\nThe $5 is split between our acc ess to this Meetup platform and our access to the meeting location.\n\nYou can venmo me ([https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon](https://venmo.com/u/Rebec ca-Bon) *8913) or bring cash.\n\nHowever❕We would never want you to miss a book club discussion because of the $5\, so please message me if you ha ve any concerns.\n\nThanks\, and see you all soon!\n\n📚 ** BOOK SUMMARY ** 📚\n\nBa dies in the night\; Ma is already gone.\nNewly orphaned chi ldren of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refut es their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, the y set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free fro m their past.\nAlong the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family sec rets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future.\nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history wit h fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\ , it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immig rants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it's about the memories th at bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/312788862/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260108T190632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T190632Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_313864111@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261217T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261217T200000 SUMMARY:GRANITE BAY December 2026 — How Much of These Hills Is Gold\, by C Pam Zhang DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n📖 Why this book? 📖 \n\nA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR\nA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE B OOK OF THE YEAR\nONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE\nBOOKS OF THE YEAR\nONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020\nLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE\nFINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE\nWINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD\, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS\n A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER\n"B elongs on a shelf all of its own." — NPR\n"Outstanding." — The Washing ton Post\n"Revolutionary... A visionary addition to American literature." — Star Tribune\nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landsca pe - trying not just to survive but to find a home.\n\nHard to find a book ? [Suggest a title](https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Reading-Recomme ndations/Recommend-a-Title) or use [Zip Books](https://www.saclibrary.org/ Books-Media/Reading-Recommendations/Recommend-a-Title) at your local libra ry.\n\n💠 What can I expect? 💠\n\nWe will meet in-person in the ‘Ga ther Room’ at the back left of the store.\n\n💬 We catch up socially\; \n🧊 we recommend a book or author\, and\n📕 we start our book discuss ion at 6:30pm.\n\n👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜\n\n◾️A Raley’s snack or bev to share\n◾️$5 (cash or [Venmo](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913)\n◾️And you could bring your book 😄\n\n✴️ Event Fee Detai ls ✴️\n\nThe $5 is split between our access to this Meetup platform an d our access to the meeting location.\n\nYou can venmo me ([https://venmo. com/u/Rebecca-Bon](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913) or bring cash.\ n\nHowever❕We would never want you to miss a book club discussion becaus e of the $5\, so please message me if you have any concerns.\n\nThanks\, a nd see you all soon!\n\n📚 ** BOOK SUMMARY ** 📚\n\nBa dies in the nig ht\; Ma is already gone.\nNewly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing th e threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past.\nAlong the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and g limpses of a different kind of future.\nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history with fiercely original language a nd storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunnin g new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expan ding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. B ut page by page\, it's about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/313864111/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260320T055028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T055028Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_315367828@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270120T183018 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270120T203018 SUMMARY:MIDTOWN January 2027 — The Fraud\, by Zadie Smith DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n📖 Why this book? 📖 \n\nThe New York Times bestseller • One of the New York Times 10 Best Bo oks of the Year • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • Named a Best B ook of the Year by Publishers Weekly\n"[A] brilliant new entry in Smith's catalog...\nThe Fraud is not a change for Smith\, but a demonstration of h ow expansive her talents are." — Los Angeles Times\nFrom acclaimed and b estselling novelist Zadie Smith\, a kaleidoscopic work of historical ficti on set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England\, about who gets to tell their story - and who gets to be believed\n\nPRAISE FOR THE A UDIOBOOK\n"With the virtuosic agility of an actor in a one-woman play\, Sm ith as narrator so fully embodies each of her many distinct characters tha t she exposes\, sometimes without their even knowing\, the ways in which e very one of us misrepresents ourselves in one way or another. This is a 19 th-cen-tury novel of manners in which various people have very bad ones\, and the result\, thanks to the author's perfect ear for comic timing\, is vigorously\, insistently fun-ny... Smith bounces nimbly across the vernacu lar empire while leaving no mistake about her ubiquitous irony\, her vocal side eye." — Lauren Christensen\, The New York Times Book Review\n\n"Sm ith expertly performs her historical novel inspired by true events... Smit h's performance possesses considerable emotional depth\, and she delivers lines with her characteristic searing wit. Smith's ear for accents turns i nto perfectly performed dialogue for characters from every corner of Londo n." — The Millions\n\nLibrary Journal * Publisher's Weekly\n\n& BookPage & Booklist\n\n& Kirkus Reviews\n\nGood Reading Magazine\nREVIEWS\nAWARDS\ n10 Best Books of 2023\nLibby Award Finalist\n\nHard to find a book? [Sugg est a title](https://www.saclibrary.org/browse-borrow/request-book/suggest -title) at your local library.\n\n💠 What can I expect? 💠\n\nWe will meet in-person *after hours* in Time Tested Books. Front door will be unlo cked\, and staff will point the way.\n\n💬 We catch up socially\;\n🧊 we recommend a book or author\, and\n📕 we start our book discussion at 7pm.\n\n👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜\n\n◾️A snack or drink to share\n◾ ️$5 (cash or [Venmo](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913)\n◾️And you could bring your book 😄\n\n✴️ Event Fee Details ✴️\n\nThe $ 5 is split between our access to this Meetup platform and our access to th e meeting location.\n\nYou can venmo me ([https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon] (https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913) or bring cash.\n\nHowever❕We wo uld never want you to miss a book club discussion because of the $5\, so p lease message me if you have any concerns\n\nThanks\, and see you all soon ! URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/315367828/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260622T135017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260622T135017Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_315375892@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270121T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270121T200000 SUMMARY:GRANITE BAY January 2027 — The Fraud\, by Zadie Smith DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n📖 Why this book? 📖 \n\nThe New York Times bestseller • One of the New York Times 10 Best Bo oks of the Year • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • Named a Best B ook of the Year by Publishers Weekly\n"[A] brilliant new entry in Smith's catalog...\nThe Fraud is not a change for Smith\, but a demonstration of h ow expansive her talents are." — Los Angeles Times\nFrom acclaimed and b estselling novelist Zadie Smith\, a kaleidoscopic work of historical ficti on set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England\, about who gets to tell their story - and who gets to be believed.\n\nPRAISE FOR THE AUDIOBOOK\n"With the virtuosic agility of an actor in a one-woman play\, S mith as narrator so fully embodies each of her many distinct characters th at she exposes\, sometimes without their even knowing\, the ways in which every one of us misrepresents ourselves in one way or another. This is a 1 9th-cen-tury novel of manners in which various people have very bad ones\, and the result\, thanks to the author's perfect ear for comic timing\, is vigorously\, insistently fun-ny... Smith bounces nimbly across the vernac ular empire while leaving no mistake about her ubiquitous irony\, her voca l side eye." — Lauren Christensen\, The New York Times Book Review\n\n"S mith expertly performs her historical novel inspired by true events... Smi th's performance possesses considerable emotional depth\, and she delivers lines with her characteristic searing wit. Smith's ear for accents turns into perfectly performed dialogue for characters from every corner of Lond on." — The Millions\n\n* Library Journal * Publisher's Weekly\n\n& BookP age & Booklist\n\n& Kirkus Reviews\n\nGood Reading Magazine\nREVIEWS\nAWAR DS\n10 Best Books of 2023\nLibby Award Finalist\n\nHard to find a copy? [M ake a purchase suggestion](https://www.placer.ca.gov/9143/Suggest-a-Purcha se) or [Make a purchase request](https://www.roseville.ca.gov/prl/library/ contact_us.php) at your local library\n\n💠 What can I expect? 💠\n\nW e will meet in-person in the ‘Gather Room’ at the back left of the sto re.\n\n💬 We catch up socially\;\n🧊 we recommend a book or author\, a nd\n📕 we start our book discussion at 6:30pm.\n\n👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜\n\n◾️A Raley’s snack or bev to share\n◾️$5 (cash or [Venmo] (https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913)\n◾️And you could bring your b ook 😄\n\n✴️ Event Fee Details ✴️\n\nThe $5 is split between our access to this Meetup platform and our access to the meeting location.\n\ nYou can venmo me ([https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon](https://venmo.com/u/R ebecca-Bon) *8913) or bring cash.\n\nHowever❕We would never want you to miss a book club discussion because of the $5\, so please message me if yo u have any concerns\n\nThanks\, and see you all soon! URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/315375892/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260622T222716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260622T222716Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_315375245@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261020T145948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270217T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270217T203000 SUMMARY:MIDTOWN February 2027 — Is a River Alive?\, by Robert Macfarlane DESCRIPTION:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club\n📖 Why this book? 📖 \n\nFrom the best-selling author of Underland and "the great nature writer …of this generation" (Wall Street Journal)\, a revelatory book that tran sforms how we imagine rivers - and life itself.\n"As beautiful as the rive rs and the hope he's describing." - Valorie Castellanos\nClark\, Los Angel es Times\nA New York Times Bestseller\nWinner of the 2026 Sigurd F. Olson Nature\nWriting Award\nWinner of the 2026 Nautilus Book Award\nShortlisted for the Wainwright Prize\nSpecial Jury Citation for the Banff Mountain Bo oks Prize\n\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker\, Economist\, Guardian\, Minneapolis Star-Tribune\, Kirkus Reviews\, and Publishers Wee kly • A Time Must-Read Book • One of NPR's "Books We Love" • A Washi ngton Post Notable Work of Nonfiction\n\nPowered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices\, Is a River Alive? will open hearts \, challenge perspectives\, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers — and always has.\nREVIEWS\n* Booklist * Kirkus Reviews\n* Libra ry Journal * Publisher's Weekly\n* Good Reading Magazine\nAWARDS\nNotable Books for Adults Libby Award Nominee\n\nHard to find a book? [Suggest a ti tle](https://www.saclibrary.org/browse-borrow/request-book/suggest-title) at your local library.\n\n💠 What can I expect? 💠\n\nWe will meet in- person *after hours* in Time Tested Books. Front door will be unlocked\, a nd staff will point the way.\n\n💬 We catch up socially\;\n🧊 we recom mend a book or author\, and\n📕 we start our book discussion at 7pm.\n\n 👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜\n\n◾️A snack or drink to share\n◾️$5 (c ash or [Venmo](https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913)\n◾️And you coul d bring your book 😄\n\n✴️ Event Fee Details ✴️\n\nThe $5 is spl it between our access to this Meetup platform and our access to the meetin g location.\n\nYou can venmo me ([https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon](https:/ /venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon) *8913) or bring cash.\n\nHowever❕We would neve r want you to miss a book club discussion because of the $5\, so please me ssage me if you have any concerns.\n\nThanks\, and see you all soon! URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/315375245/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260622T215141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260622T215141Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.meetup.com/bookclub-618/events/ical/ X-WR-CALNAME:Greater Sacramento Women's Book Club END:VCALENDAR