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Calendar of Events
 
Thu., Feb 9 6:30 Political Philosophy
    Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population
 
Sat., Feb 11 2:00 Heights
    Edgar Allan Poe: Murders in the Rue Morgue / Marie Roget / The Purloined Letter / The Gold Bug
 
Mon., Feb 13 7:30 Central Market
    F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and the Damned
 
Tue., Feb 14 12:00 West University
    Jhumpa Lahiri // Machiavelli: "Interpreter of Maladies" // The Prince 1- 5
 
Tue., Feb 14 7:15 Meyerland
    Divakaruni, Chitra B.: 1. What the Body Knows. 2. The Forgotten Children
 
Wed., Feb 15 7:00 Life & Times of ...
    James Joyce / Joseph Campbell: Finnegan's Wake & Skeleton Key
 
Wed., Feb 15 7:00 Houston Non-Fiction
    John Knneth Galbraith: The Great Crash 1929: The classic account of financial disaster
 
Thu., Feb 16 7:00 Looscan
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison
 
Sun., Feb 19 4:00 Philosophy Cafe
    Hegel: Introductions to Part 1 of the Encyclopedia (Logic) AND Science of Logic
 
Mon., Feb 20 7:00 Cypress Creek
    Moses Maimonides: On Evil
 
Tue., Feb 21 7:00 Sugar Land (First Colony)
    George Eliot: Adam Bede
 
Thu., Feb 23 7:00 Clear Lake
    Eudora Welty: A Still Moment
 
Sun., Feb 26 3:00 Always on Sunday
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
 
Sun., Feb 26 4:00 Memorial
    Hubert Dreyfus: Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (Ch. 6 & 7)
 
Tue., Feb 28 7:00 Young Thinkers
    David Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
 
Thu., Mar 1 6:00 Montrose
    Art Koestler: Darkness At Noon
 
Thu., Mar 1 7:00 Woodlands
    Calvino; Lurie: Theft in a Pastry Shop; Fat People
 
Wed., Mar 7 8:00 Explorers
    David Markson: Wittgenstein's Mistress
 
Sat., Mar 10 2:00 Heights
    Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
 
Mon., Mar 12 7:30 Central Market
    Reham Pamuk: My Name is Red
 
Tue., Mar 13 7:00 Meyerland
    Divakaruni, Chitra B.: The Blooming Season for Cacti
 
Thu., Mar 15 7:00 Looscan
    Tristram Riley-Smith: The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions of Liberty
 
Sun., Mar 18 4:00 Philosophy Cafe
    Hegel: Introduction to Part 2 of the Encyclopedia (Philosophy of Nature)
 
Mon., Mar 19 7:00 Cypress Creek
    Homer: The Iliad
 
Tue., Mar 20 7:00 Sugar Land (First Colony)
    Gina Nahai: Cry Of The Peacock
 
Wed., Mar 21 7:00 Life & Times of ...
    James Joyce / Joseph Campbell: Finnegan's Wake & Skeleton Key
 
Wed., Mar 21 7:00 Houston Non-Fiction
    Robert Wright: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny -AssignmentI: Intro, Part I, Chapters 1 thru 9 (about 123 pgs))
 
Sun., Mar 25 3:00 Always on Sunday
    Katherine Mansfield: Her First Ball
 
Wed., Apr 4 8:00 Explorers
    Martin Heidegger: Poetry, Language, and Thought
 
Thu., Apr 5 6:00 Montrose
    Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
 
Thu., Apr 5 7:00 Woodlands
    Huxley; Houston: Nuns at Luncheon; Cowboys are My Weakness
 
Mon., Apr 9 7:30 Central Market
    Virginia Wolfe: To the Lighthouse
 
Tue., Apr 10 7:00 Meyerland
    Divakaruni, Chitra B.: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
 
Sat., Apr 14 2:00 Heights
    Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter
 
Sun., Apr 15 4:00 Philosophy Cafe
    Hegel: Introductions to Part 3 of the Encyclopedia (Philosophy of Spirit) AND Philosophy of Right
 
Mon., Apr 16 7:00 Cypress Creek
    Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu: Principles of Government
 
Tue., Apr 17 7:00 Sugar Land (First Colony)
    Herman Melville: Billy Budd
 
Wed., Apr 18 7:00 Life & Times of ...
    James Joyce / Joseph Campbell: Finnegan's Wake & Skeleton Key
 
Wed., Apr 18 7:00 Houston Non-Fiction
    Robert Wright: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny; Assignment: Chapters 10 through 16 (about 119 pages)
 
Thu., Apr 19 7:00 Looscan
    Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
 
Sun., Apr 22 3:00 Always on Sunday
    Ernest Hemingway: Indian Camp
 
Sat., Apr 28 2:00 Monumental Great Books
    Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
 
Wed., May 2 8:00 Explorers
    JRR Tolkien: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
 
Thu., May 3 6:00 Montrose
    Mark Twain: Letters From The Earth
 
Tue., May 8 7:00 Meyerland
    Divakaruni, Chitra B.: The Names of Stars in Bengali
 
Tue., May 15 7:00 Sugar Land (First Colony)
    Alessandro Manzoni: I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)
 
Wed., May 16 7:00 Life & Times of ...
    James Joyce / Joseph Campbell: Finnegan's Wake & Skeleton Key
 
Wed., May 16 7:00 Houston Non-Fiction
    Robert Wright: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny- Assignment: Part II, chapters 17 thru 22, Appendix 1,2 (105 pgs
 
Thu., May 17 7:00 Looscan
    Greek Tragedy TBA
 
Mon., May 21 7:00 Cypress Creek
    Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
 
Sun., May 27 3:00 Always on Sunday
    V. S. Pritchett: The Diver
 
 

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