Houston Readers
Comments about book discussion groups in Houston, TX. For now, most comments will apply to discussions by the Houston Montrose Great Books group and also the Houston Central Market Book Club but that could change depending on whether I get requests from anyone else to summarize their group.

Archives

  • 2008.07.15: SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser - capitalism, poverty, luck and loneliness
  • 2008.07.04: A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh - entertaining, flawed upper class and savages too
  • 2008.06.10: INHERITANCE OF LOSS by Keran Desai - dense, fragmented, messy pathos
  • 2008.06.06: THE STRANGER by Albert Camus - absurd, existential
  • 2008.05.13: DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather - faith, tender sentiment and frontier survival
  • 2008.05.03: Writings by Mark Twain - religious hypocrisy, unexamined assumptions and more.
  • 2008.04.15: MADAME BOVARY by Gustav Flaubert - ambiguous, uncomfortable, memorable
  • 2008.04.03: MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett - great story, simplistic characters

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