Don't Stay Home and Read Alone!
Calendar of Events
 
Wed., Sep 3 7:00 Explorers
    J. M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians (Meeting at 7pm to pick next books, discussion of 'Barbarians' at 8pm)
 
Thu., Sep 4 6:00 Montrose Great Books
    Cormac McCarthy: THE ROAD (-Susan will lead discussion)
 
Thu., Sep 4 7:00 Woodlands
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
 
Mon., Sep 8 7:00 Central Market
    Zora Neal Hurston: THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD (Ellie will lead)
 
Tue., Sep 9 12:00 West University
    Flannery O\'Connor: Good Country People (starting the "Seven Dead,y Sins" anthology)
 
Tue., Sep 9 2:00 Westbury
    Porter: That Tree; The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
 
Tue., Sep 9 7:00 Meyerland
    Singer / Barthelme: The Key / A City of Churches
 
Sat., Sep 13 2:00 Heights
    James Joyce: The Dubliners (leader: Moira)
 
Mon., Sep 15 7:00 Cypress Creek
    de Tocqueville: The Power of the Majority (from "GB First Series")
 
Tue., Sep 16 7:00 Sugar Land (First Colony)
    F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night
 
Tue., Sep 16 7:00 Looscan
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Infidel (Hardback only, at the moment)
 
Sat., Sep 20 11:00 Speculative Fiction
    David Brin: Startide Rising (11am-1pm, Luby's on Waugh just N of West Gray)
 
Tue., Sep 23 2:00 Westbury
    James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (from GB Foundation "Theme" series: Identity and Self-Respect)
 
Sun., Sep 28 3:00 Always on Sunday
    Joule: The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat (from "What's the Matter? Readings in Physics")
 
Sun., Sep 28 4:00 Memorial
    Soren Kierkegaard: Either/Or, Part I, 1-4 (through Shadowgraphs) (Existentialism Series)
 
Thu., Oct 2 6:00 Montrose Great Books
    Books on the Bayou selection TBA in September
 
Thu., Oct 2 7:00 Woodlands
    William Faulkner, Flannery O\'Connor: A Rose for Emily, Good Country People ("Pride" from "The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler")
 
Tue., Oct 7 2:00 Westbury
    Kaleidoscope anthology: Exchange Value
 
Sat., Oct 11 2:00 Heights
    Aristotle: The Poetics (leader: Gene)
 
Mon., Oct 13 7:00 Central Market
    Eudora Welty: DELTA WEDDING (Mary will lead)
 
Tue., Oct 14 12:00 West University
    Bible: The Story of Samson (Judges 13—16) (beginning the "Great Conversations 2" anthology)
 
Tue., Oct 14 7:00 Meyerland
    Brown / Adams: How to Win / Roses, Rhododendron
 
Mon., Oct 20 7:00 Cypress Creek
    Simmel: Individual Freedom (from "GB First Series")
 
Tue., Oct 21 2:00 Westbury
    Plato: Apology (From GBF "Theme" series: Identity and Self-Respect)
 
Tue., Oct 21 7:00 Looscan
    Cokie Roberts: Founding Mothers
 
Sat., Oct 25 2:00 Monumental Great Books
    Goethe: Wilhelm Meister\'s Apprenticeship
 
Sun., Oct 26 3:00 Always on Sunday
    Munro: Boys and Girls (from "Great Conversations, Book 1")
 
Sun., Oct 26 4:00 Memorial
    Soren Kierkegaard: Either/Or, Part I, 5-7 (through The Seducer\'s Diary) (Existentialism Series)
 
Tue., Nov 4 7:00 Westbury
    Chopin: Beyond the Bayou
 
Thu., Nov 6 6:00 Montrose Great Books
    Joseph Heller: CATCH 22 (Wendy will lead discussion)
 
Thu., Nov 6 7:00 Woodlands
    Edith Wharton, Tobias Wolff: Roman Fever, Smokers ("Envy" from "The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler")
 
Sat., Nov 8 2:00 Heights
    Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus (leader: Mike)
 
Sun., Nov 9 4:00 Memorial
    Soren Kierkegaard: Either/Or, Part II, 1-4 (All of Part II) (Existentialism Series)
 
Mon., Nov 10 7:00 Central Market
    Fyodor Dostoevsky: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND (Alice will lead)
 
Tue., Nov 11 7:00 Meyerland
    Brodkey / Bellow: Verona: A Young Woman Speaks / A Silver Dish
 
Mon., Nov 17 7:00 Cypress Creek
    Sophocles: Antigone (from "GB First Series")
 
Tue., Nov 18 2:00 Westbury
    Alice Munro: A Real Life (From GBF "Theme" series: Identity and Self-Respect)
 
Sun., Nov 23 3:00 Always on Sunday
    Eddington: Entropy: The Running Down of the Universe (from "What's the Matter? Readings in Physics")
 
Tue., Dec 2 2:00 Westbury
    Collier: Bottle Party (From GBF "Theme" series: Identity and Self-Respect)
 
Thu., Dec 4 7:00 Montrose Great Books
    Henry Miller: TROPIC OF CANCER (Susan will lead the discussion)
 
Thu., Dec 4 7:00 Woodlands
    Rudyard Kipling, Margaret Atwood: Mary Postgate, Hairball ("Anger" from "The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler")
 
Mon., Dec 8 7:00 Central Market
    Richard Wright: THE MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND (Esther will lead)
 
Tue., Dec 9 7:00 Meyerland
    Updike / Ozick: Gesturing / The Shawl
 
Sat., Dec 13 7:00 Heights
    Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (leader: Kathy)
 
Sun., Dec 14 4:00 Memorial
    Soren Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (First Third) (Existentialism Series)
 
Mon., Dec 15 7:00 Cypress Creek
    Plato: The Crito (from "GB Second Series")
 
Tue., Dec 16 2:00 Westbury
    V. Wolff: A Room of One\'s Own (From GBF "Theme" series: Identity and Self-Respect)
 
 

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