The Houston Central Market Book Club discussion group is affiliated with Great Books and meets 7pm until 9pm on the second Monday of (most) every month upstairs in the community room at Central Market, 3815 Westheimer (at Weslayan).

Our November meeting is on November 9th, 7pm to 9pm. We will be discussing THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene. The description of the reading is included below.

Ask at the information desk at Central Market if you have trouble finding us. They will probably not know about our book club but they should be able to guide you to the Community Room upstairs.

We love to have new members. We ask that you read the book if you want to participate in the discussion but everyone is welcome to attend and listen whether they have read the selection or not. Call or email me if you would like more info.

Additional info also at the Houston Book Clubs Website

Hope to see you soon!

--Alice Aman
713 523-3652
aaman@hal-pc.org

www.houstonbookclubs.org/CentralMarket
www.houstonbookclubs.org/blog/
groups.google.com/group/CentralMarketBookClub
www.houstongreatbooks.net/groups/CM.html
Participation Guidelines for Shared Inquiry are available HERE for anyone interested.

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• Nov 9, 2009 HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene (publ 1948) 288 pages

  Greene combined serious literary acclaim with wide popularity and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Novel is included in TIME's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie, flawed yet heroic is bound by strict integrity to his job and by severe responsibility to his wife for whom he cares with a fatal pity.

  -- Alice will lead discussion
  
  

• Dec 14, 2009 THE JUNGLE by- Upton Sinclair (publ 1906) 475 pages

  Classic novel about corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century - depicts in harsh tones the poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the "have-nots". Most of the main characters are part of an immigrant Lithuanian family which as the novel progresses, the jobs and means the family uses to stay alive lead to their moral decay.

  -- Mia will lead discussion

• Location: Houston Central Market Community Room
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