ECW Book Club
Host: Pat Holmes
Third Tuesdays (Jan 21, Feb 18, Mar 18, April 15, May 20)
10 am - 11 am, Room 101 (Chapel Bridal Room)
Resident SJD author Pat Holmes will host the Women's Book Club monthly on third Tuesdays at 10 am in the Chapel Bride's Room. This will not be a Bible study - we will read popular novels. Please RSVP in advance to Pat Holmes.
January 21
HORSE by Geraldine Brooks
Brooks's novels have won numerous awards. For March, her 2006 novel, she won the Pulitzer Prize. People of the Book was a New York Times bestseller and was translated into 20 languages.
February 18
James: A Novel, by Percival Everett
A reimagining of Huckleberry Finn told from Jims’ point of view. National Book Award Winner.
March 18
The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon
Historical Fiction mystery about a midwife in Paul Revere’s New England called to autopsy a body frozen in the river.
April 15
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An Appalachian coming of age story inspired by David Copperfield.
May 20
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
A group of friends meet on Thursdays to work on unsolved murder mysteries, eventually finding themselves in the midst of a live murder case.
Patricia Hunt Holmes spent 30 years as a public finance attorney with a large international law firm, specializing in nonprofit healthcare finance and rural electric cooperative finance. Consistently listed in Best Lawyers in America, Texas Super Lawyers, and Top Lawyers in Houston, she was a frequent speaker at national public finance and health care conferences. Patricia has also served on the faculty of the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Tennessee, and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She has written and published in the fields of intellectual history and law.
In addition to her legal career, Patricia has been a member and board member of several social service organizations throughout Houston, including the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast Women’s Initiative, Dress for Success Houston, the University of Houston Women’s Studies Program, University of Houston Law Review Board of Directors, is a Trustee of the Houston Grand Opera, and Houston Justice for Our Neighbors.