On Wednesday, April 15, at 2 pm, we will be discussing Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester. This month only, the meeting takes place on Wednesday, April 15. Normally, we meet on the second Tuesday of each month.

It will be a virtual meeting, on Zoom, or you can RSVP to attend lunch starting at 1 pm in Palermo Botanico. The Zoom meeting starts at 2 pm. RSVP to jisaacs61@hotmail.com.

If you haven’t finished the book, please attend anyway. We welcome your input.

We are currently considering books to read for the next 6 to 9 months. Please send suggetions to tonilin@aol.com.

You can also RSVP by emailing tonilin@aol.com. You will be sent the link and/or address upon RSVP. A short description of this month’s book follows.

April 2026— Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester, nonfiction,  Goodreads 3.83, 423 pp.  2023.  “A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world.”  — New York TimesFrom the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.