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BOOK CLUB

Book Club is the Third Thursday of the month unless otherwise indicated by the Hostess.

Members (by order of rotation)
Sandra . Lori . Clare . Cara . Carole . Shawn . Crista . Libby . Jayme . Laura . Catherine . Veronica . Karen . Betsy

March 19, 2015 - CRISTA - How To Be Both: A Novel by Ali Smith

April 16, 2015 - LIBBY - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

May 21, 2015 - JAYME - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

June 18, 2015 - LAURA
July 16, 2015 - CATHERINE
August 20, 2015 - VERONICA
September 17, 2015 - KAREN
October 15, 2015 - BETSY

ROTATION RESTARTS
November 19, 2015 - SANDRA
DECEMBER - ORNAMENT EXCHANGE: FIRST THURSDAY, December 3, 2015 - LORI's
JANUARY 14, 2016 - LORI
FEBRUARY 18, 2016 - CLARE
MARCH 17, 2016 - CARA
APRIL 21, 2016 - CAROLE
MAY 19, 2016 - SHAWN
JUNE 16, 2016 - CRISTA
JULY 21, 2016 - LIBBY
AUGUST 18, 2016 - JAYME
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 - LAURA
OCTOBER 20, 2016 - CATHERINE
NOVEMBER 17, 2016 - VERONICA
DECEMBER - ORNAMENT EXCHANGE: FIRST THURSDAY, December 1, 2015 - LORI's
JANUARY 19, 2017 - KAREN
FEBRUARY 16, 2017 BETSY
ROTATION RESTARTS

Some Past Books: The Help, Love Monkey, the Poisonwood Bible, A Piece of Cake, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Escape, Big Fish, Mom Always Liked You Best, Loving Frank, Ricochet: A Novel, Twilight, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, My Sister's Keeper, The Carrie Diaries, The Liars Club, The Worst Thing I've Done, The Wish Club, Still Alice, Middlesex, 'Tis, Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Cutting for Stone, The Island, Timeline, My Lobtomy, Water for Elephants, Zeitoun, The Cat's Table, The Hunger Games, Sarah's Key, A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love and Loss by RoseMarie Terenzio, Julia's Chocolates by Cathy Lamb, City of Thieves by David Benioff, The Caller, Fifty Shades of Grey, Room, Gone Girl, Life of Pi, Swamplandia, And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, The Light Between Oceans: A Novel by M.L. Stedman, Where's you Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple, The Dinner by Herman Koch, Heft by Liz Moore, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso, Little Failure: A Memoire by Gary Shtygart, The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer, One Plus One by Jojo Moyes, The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld, I Forgot to Remember by Susan E Mec ...

Thursday, November 20, 2014

CultureMap Holiday Pop Up Shop - Sunday, Dec 7

CultureMap Holiday Pop Up Shop

Sunday, December 7, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM (CST)
Silver Street Studios
2000 Edwards St. Houston, TX 77002

This might be a fun afternoon - $10+2(fee) to attend, we could meet for lunch at noon and then head over to this. Any interest?


TICKETS: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/culturemap-holiday-pop-up-shop-tickets-14323819931


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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Fwd: Join us for the Ringwald's once-a-year FREE happy hour show!

The Ringwald's once-a-year FREE happy hour show! Doors open at 7:00 p.m. We play until 9:30 p.m. Ringwald Karaoke! Free admission! Drink specials! Mr. Adam's BBQ! Snap a selfie with Dekan Ringwald in the background! Invite your friends! We hope to see you there!
Friday, June 13,  7:00pm - 9:30pm
The Continental Club, Houston, TX
3700 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77002
See who is going and invite friends via facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/308684215963530/

Monday, May 19, 2014

REAL SIMPLE has the BEST no obligation Book Club list!

REAL SIMPLE MAGAZINE
The No-Obligation Book Club Reading List

A chronological guide to the monthly selections (plus all the runners-up).

Books are voted on monthly by readers. Even the non-winner books that are listed are excellent choices!

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September 2008

Winner: I Feel Bad About My Neck, by Nora Ephron
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman

October 2008

Winner: Run, by Ann Patchett
Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat
The Book of Other People, edited by Zadie Smith
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

November 2008

Winner: Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
The Blood of Flowers, by Anita Amirrezvani
Mrs. Bridge, by Evan S. Connell
Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris

December 2008

Winner: I Was Told There’d Be Cake, by Sloane Crosley
American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld
The House at Sugar Beach, by Helene Cooper
The Position, by Meg Wolitzer

January 2009

Winner: Dear American Airlines, by Jonathan Miles
Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia
The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga

February 2009

Winner: Testimony, by Anita Shreve
Night of the Gun, by David Carr
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

March 2009

Winner: December, by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley

April 2009

Winner: My Abandonment, by Peter Rock
Angels of Destruction, by Keith Donohue
The Believers, by Zoe Heller
The Survivor’s Club: The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life, by Ben Sherwood

May 2009

Winner: Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz

June 2009

Winner: Busy Woman Seeks Wife, by Annie Sanders
Blithe Spirit, by Noel Coward
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
The Host, by Stephenie Meyer

July 2009

Winner: Sag Harbor, by Colson Whitehead
Flight, by Sherman Alexie
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie

August 2009

Winner: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult

September 2009

Winner: The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
I See You Everywhere, by Julia Glass
The Scenic Route, by Binnie Kirshenbaum

October 2009

Winner: A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore
The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb
Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

November 2009

Winner: The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich

December 2009

Winner: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Ten-Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
My Life in France, by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme

For more information on Real Simple’s No Obligation Book Club itself, click here.