The First Tuesday Book Club of the Unitarian Fellowship meets in the Fellowship Library at 7:30pm on the first Tuesday of each month. Here are the books we will be reading and discussing in the next 3 months. These books are available in paperback either at your local book store, online or at the Houston Public Library. All book lovers are welcome. Happy reading!
September 5, 2017
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is set during the Roaring Twenties, in 1922 and tells the story of one man’s pursuit of the American Dream. The narrator, Nick Carraway, is an upper class American man who moves from the West to New York to try his luck as a bond trader. He meets an eccentric, exceptionally wealthy neighbor named Jay Gatsby, and becomes embroiled in Gatsby’s plan to rekindle a lost love with a woman named Daisy Buchanan, who happens to be Nick’s cousin.
October 3, 2017
“Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
November 7, 2018
“Birds of a Feather: Maisie Dobbs Mystery” by Jacqueline Winspear
