Check the Newsletter Each Month for any updates.
Afternoon Contemporary Literature Group
1:30 pm, 1st Wednesday of each month
Daphne Scharar, Coordinator, 713-412-2140
Linda Morgan, Communications, 281-293-0976
ZOOM Coordinator: Linda Fosseen 713-252-6235
- 09/02/2020 The Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Discussion Leader: Sharon Jorgeson - 10/07/2020 The Best People: A Tale of Trial and Errors by Marc Grossberg
Discussion Leader: Pat Thomsen
NOTE: Author will be present for the discussion - 11/04/2020 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Discussion Leader: Karla Dunn - 12/02/2020 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Discussion Leader: Margaret Wittenmyer - 01/06/2021 The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Discussion Leader: Dana Cutts - 02/03/2021 Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Discussion Leader: P.K. Loeffler - 03/03/2021 The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Discussion Leader: Pam Doan - 04/07/2021 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Discussion Leader: Mary Dodson - 05/05/2021 WickWythe Hall (or Chanel Sisters) by Judithe Little
Discussion Leader: Cynthia Hickok - 06/02/2021 Book Selection Meeting for 2021-2022 year
Discussion Leader: Daphne Scharar - 07/07/2021 Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
Discussion Leaders: Fran Podell and Linda Fosseen - 08/04/2021 Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Discussion Leader: Mimi Miller
Contemporary Readers Group
1:00 p.m., 1st Wednesday of the month
Coordinators: Margaret Gruss, mcgruss@att.net 281.589.0411
Sharon Pope, slpope@comcast.net 713.376.0940
- 07/01/2020 There, There by Tommy George
Leader: Jan Kerekgyarto - 08/05/2020 The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
Leader: Sharon Pope - 09/02/2020 Have You Seen Luis Velez? By Catherine Ryan Hyde
Leader: Margaret Gruss - 10/07/2020 Searching For Pilar by Patricia Hunt Holmer
Leader: Sue Phipps - 11/04/2020 Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Leader: Judy Starr - 12/02/2020 The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Leader: Shari Mauthner - 01/06/2021 The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Leader: Cathy Urquhart - 02/03/2021 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Leader: Margaret Carlson - 03/03/2021 Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
Leader: Patty Cordrey - 04/03/2021 Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
Leader: Judy Hamelers - 05/05/2021 This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Leader: Julie Eisenhauer - 06/01/2021 Book Selection Meeting: TBA
Enjoying History Book Group
1:30 p.m., 2nd Monday of the month
Co-coordinators: Nancy Gusler, ntgusler@gmail.com 713.464.5932;
Nancy Guilloud, nanguilloud@aol.com 713.785.6336
- 09/14/2020 The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
Leader: Pat Dach
Hostess: Pat Dach (via Zoom) - 10/12/2020 Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Leader: Nancy Guilloud
Hostess: Nancy Guilloud (or Zoom) - 11/09/2020 Justinian’s Flea by William Rosen
Leader: Karen Welborn
Hostess: TBA - 12/14/2020 Double Cross by Ben Macintyre
Leader: Melba Armstrong
Hostess: Melba Armstrong (or Zoom) - 01/11/2021 The Body, A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Leader: Cynthia Hickok
Hostess: Cynthia Hickok (or Zoom) - 02/08/2021 No Man’s Land by Wendy Moore
Leader: Kris Bybee-Finley
Hostess: Kris Bybee-Finley (or Zoom) - 03/08/2021 Our Man in Charleston by Christopher Dickey
Leader: Mary Andersen
Hostess: TBA - 04/12/2021 Becoming Dr. Seuss by Brian Jones
Leader: Nancy Allen
Hostess: TBA - 05/10/2021 Sky Girls by Nora Jessen
Leader: Marie Helmy
Hostess: Marie Helmy (or Zoom) - 06/14/2021 Planning Luncheon for 2021-2022 at noon
Hostess: Nancy Guilloud
Evening Contemporary Literature Group
3:30.m., 1st Monday of the month (unless Holiday warrants change)
Zoom meetings until further notice
Coordinator Jo Glidewell, WCGLIDE@gmail.com 936.327.2085
Co-coordinator Sharon Jorgeson, sjorgeson@gmail.com 281.558.4382
- 09/08/2020 The Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O’Connor
Leader: Pat Farnell - 10/05/2020 The Five Wishes of Murray McBride by Joe Siple
Leader: Jo Glidewell - 11/02/2020 Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom
Leader: Carolyn Morris - 12/07/2020 The Sisters Weiss by Naomi Regen
Leader: Diane Statham - 01/04/2021 Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
Leader: Nancy Bowden - 02/01/2021 Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
Leader: Roslyn Metchis - 03/01/2021 The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
Leader: Sharon Jorgeson - 04/05/2021 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Leader: Diane Guarniere - 05/03/2021 The Memory Painter: A Novel of Love and Reincarnation by Gwendolyn Womack
Leader: Marietta Hostak - 06/07/2021 BOOK SELECTION MEETING
- 07/05/2021 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Leader: Rose Ennis - 08/02/2021 Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Leader: Carole Ballew
Mystery Book Group
1:30 p.m., 3rd Tuesday of the month,
Melba Armstrong, Coordinator, armstrong.melba@comcast.net 281.392.3190
Pat Pease, Co-Coordinator,popease@aol.com 713.824.1681
- 09/15/2020 Gray Mountain by John Grisham
Leader: Pat Dach
Hostess: Zoom - 10/20/2020 Button Man by Andrew Gross
Leader: Millie Hast
Hostess: Zoom - 11/17/2020 The Great Darkness: A Cambridge Wartime
Mystery by Jim Kelly
Leader: Kris Bybee-Finley
Hostess: Zoom - 12/15/2020 Murder in the Marais by Cara Black
Leader: Nancy Guilloud
Hostess: Nancy Guilloud or Zoom - 01/19/2021 The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Leader: Dana Cutts
Hostess: To be determined - 02/16/2021 The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Leader: Mary Adams
Hostess: To be determined - 03/16/2021 The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
Leader: Pam Doan
Hostess: To be determined - 04/20/2021 The Good Detective by John McMahom
Leader: Marilyn Arendt
Hostess: To be determined - 05/18/2021 The Dry by Jane Harper
Leader: Sara Dalton
Hostess: To be determined - 06/15/2021 Book Selection Luncheon for 2021-2022
Hostess: Melba Armstrong
Outstanding Literature Group
9:30 a.m. 2nd Tuesdays, September through May
Meeting location unknown at this time. Check AAUW-WHC newsletter or contact coordinators for information.
Leigh Rappole, Coordinator,leighra@aol.com 281-596-0161
Barbara Butler, Co-coordinator, barbarabutler1959@att.net 713.305.0570
- 09/08/2020 Fences by August Wilson
Discussion Facilitator: Barbara Butler - 10/13/2020 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Discussion Facilitator: Pat Pease - 11/10/2020 Dubliners by James Joyce
Discussion Facilitator: Peg McNealy - 12/08/2020 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Discussion Facilitator: ALL - 01/12/2021 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Discussion Facilitator: Nancy Allen - 02/10/2021 Native Son by Richard Wright
Discussion Facilitator: Pam Doan - 03/09/2021 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Discussion Facilitator: Joan Belk - 04/13/2021 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Discussion Facilitator: Mariam Vyles - 05/11/2021 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Discussion Facilitator: Arlene Baker - 06/08/2021 BOOK SELECTION MEETING