"Mrs. Dalloway Bash" - Saturday, September 18 In celebration of summer’s end and the beginning of a new "reading season", the Houston Great Books Council is...
Here's a recommendation from Thelma Zirkelbach. I know some of you have used and praised the courses from The Teaching Company. Of particular interest is the...
"The Taming of the Shrew" - August 6 at Miller Outdoor Theater Pat Hill is once again organizing, for any and all, an outing to the Houston Shakespeare...
Houston Great Books Council AUGUST NEWS HGBC Websites: http://www.houstongreatbooks.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/houstongreatbooks In this issue: 1....
There are still some FREE tickets left for the GB outing to "The Taming of the Shrew": Date: August 6 Time: 8:30 pm Place: Miller Outdoor Theater in Hermann...
Effective immediately, the official website of the Houston Great Books Council has moved and has a new look. Please try it and let us know what you think. You...
Just a reminder that if you are intending to attend the "Mrs. Dalloway Bash", you have a few more days to take advantage of the reduced registration fee. All...
Houston Great Books Council SEPTEMBER NEWS HGBC Websites: HGBC Home Page HGBC Yahoo Group In this issue: 1. What's New? 2. Calendar ... What's New? Don't...
We are trying to determine if there is interest in forming a new group in the Cinco Ranch area. Fort Bend County Libraries has recently opened a new,...
This is a "Head-Up" message... The first author appearance in Inprint's 2004/5 series will be on Monday, September 13th at 7:30 pm at the Alley Theater...
Dave Nix is facilitating a new monthly speculative fiction book discussion group. The purpose of the group is to provide a forum for fans of science fiction...
I live half of the time in San Francisco and half in Houston. Because of so many in the local area who have a tie to Thailand and Vietnam, I would like to...
Greetings, I just wanted to invite everyone to a discussion and signing this Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble at Town and Country Village with Ruben...
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Houston Great Books Council OCTOBER NEWS HGBC Websites: HGBC Home Page HGBC Yahoo Group In this issue: 1. What's New? 2. Calendar ... What's New? Member...
David and Susannah Nix are facilitating a monthly speculative fiction book discussion group. The purpose of the group is to provide a forum for fans of science...
.....and a special offer. From Dan Born of the GBF: Note: a new anthology, published in August, is now available for book discussion groups. With fifteen...
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Oct 3, 2004 8:30 pm
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Thanks for the recommendation. I've got it down in my personal list of books to read. If you're in a group in Houston, suggest it to them. I bed several...
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The Texas Book Festival will be held in Austin from October 28th- 31st, 2004. Among the authors scheduled to appear are: Ken Burns (producer of many PBS...
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded today to Austrian writer, Elfriede Jelinek. The Nobel citation read, "For her musical flow of voices and...
I'd like to take this opportunity to propose a new group. I've been thinking for a while about doing something related to good modern literature (it takes a...
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Oct 8, 2004 10:42 pm
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I have been talking to Ron Hoeflinger about starting a group of GB readers at the new Cinco Ranch Branch Library, which is a branch of Fort Bend County...
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Oct 11, 2004 8:14 pm
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An organizational meeting for the new Great Books group at Cinco Ranch will be held on Thursday, October 28 at 7:00 pm. The Cinco Ranch Library is located at...
There has been an enthusiastic response to the idea of a new group, as proposed and organized by Patricia Midkiff, which we will tentatively call "Modern...
Thanks, you guys, for all the interest. Our first organisational meeting is Nov. 6 at 3 pm at the Borders in Stafford. I'm really excited. I thought we'd do...
Patricia Midkiff
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Houston Great Books Council NOVEMBER NEWS HGBC Websites: HGBC Home Page HGBC Yahoo Group In this issue: 1. What's New? 2. Calendar ... What's New? The new...
This is a "Heads Up" message... The next program in Inprint's 2004/5 series will be on Monday, November 8th at 7:30 pm at the Alley Theater, 615 Texas Avenue...
This is the final reminder for the organizational meeting for the new "Modern Literary Fiction" group: Day/time: Saturday, November 6 at 3 pm Place: Borders...
The group that had been tentatively called "Modern Literary Fiction" had an organizational meeting on Saturday, November 6. The first five members were present...
DECEMBER NEWS HGBC Websites: HGBC Home Page HGBC Yahoo Group In this issue: 1. What's New? 2. Calendar ... What's New? The first meeting of the new group,...