ECW Book Club
Host: Pat Holmes
September 16
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.
The summer reading, which will be discussed at the September meeting will be My Name is Emilia Del Valle by Isabelle Allende.
September 16
My name is Amelia del Valle by Isabel Allende
In 1866, a Chilean aristocrat travelling in San Francisco seduces an Irish nun. In this riveting historical novel, twenty years later, their young journalist daughter travels to Chile to cover the civil war and to learn about the father she never knew as well as herself.
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.