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Saint
Mary's Dallas/Fort Worth Alumnae Book Club Reading List
Below is a list of
all the books that have been read since 2001.
Now, if you need a book to read you can refer to this handy list!
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Gundersloh
Jewel
Brett Lott
Midwives
Chris Bohjalian
Jazz
Toni Morrison
Big Stone Gap
Adriana Trigiani
Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton
July's People
Nadine Gordimer
The Reader
Bernard Schlink
Moghul Buffet
Cheryl Benard
Empire Falls '
Richard Russo
A
Bigamist's Daughter
Alice McDermott
Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon
The
Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The
Nanny Diaries
Emma
McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
Mary
Called Magdalene Margaret George
The
Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Life
of Pi
Yann Martel
One Thousand White Women....
Jim Fergus
Sideways
Rex Picket
Angry
Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik
The
Red Tent
Anita Diamant
The
Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
A
Woman's Education
Jill Ker Conway
Wild
Swans
Jung Chang
The
Weight of Water Anita Shreve
Teacher Man: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
My
Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult
The
Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards
Female
Chauvinist Pigs
Ariel Levy
Then
We Came to the End Joshua Ferris
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
The Divide
Nicholas Evans
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
Water for Elephants
Sarah Gruen
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson
A Thousand Slendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Girls in Trucks
Katie Crouchi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffengegger
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
The Shack
William Paul Young
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress:
A Memoir of Going Home
Rhoda Janzen
The Middle Place
Kelly Corrigan
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
The Brink
Mark Fadden
Same Kind of Different as Me
Ron Hall
Bossypants
Tina Fey
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Circling My Mother
Mary Gordon
She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb
Very Valentine
Adriana Trigiani
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Mindy Kaling
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Wonder
R.J. Palacio
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If you are new to the Dallas/Fort Worth area or would like to join our club, email one of our officers at their email to the left. We have over 250 alumnae living in the DFW metroplex. We hope to see you at a future club event!
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24-Hour Donor Challenge (May 9)
On May 9, 2013, we need 500 Saint Mary's women who haven't made an Annual Fund gift this fiscal year to give a gift of any size. If we reach our goal, an anonymous alumna will donate an additional $50,000.
Give online at saintmarys.edu/donor-challenge or call (800) 762-8871.
Book Club (May 19)
Our next book club will be hosted by Andrea Schweitzer '00. We are reading "Salt Sugar Fat" by Michael Moss. It was published in February and is already a #1 Best Seller. The book covers questions like...Why are Americans addicted to processed foods? What changes have occurred in the food industry to feed our addictions? Come join our discussion.
St. Vincent de Paul Volunteering (June 22)
Would you mind taking 2 hours to help someone in need? The time flies by since you are with fellow alums and you help a great cause in the meantime. We go on the 4th Saturday of every other month. Our next date is June 22. We hope you will join us!
St. Vincent de Paul Volunteering(April 27)
Members of the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Alumnae Club helped sort donations for a couple of hours on Saturday morning.
Wine with Friends (April 18)
We had some fun chatting and sipping wine on a Thursday at Times Ten Cellars.
Book Club (March 24)
We read the Young Adult novel "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio with a discussion hosted by Mary Holland '05.
St. Vincent de Paul Volunteering(Feb. 23)
Alumnae volunteered their time.
Book Club (Jan. 27)
We met at Linda Kawecki’s home to discuss this year’s One Book, One Saint Mary’s pick “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” by Rebecca Skloot.
Christmas Mass & Dinner (Dec. 8)
Jan Clements Miller ‘80 hosted our Christmas party. We enjoyed mass at Prince of Peace, then a delicious dinner at our host's home.
St. Vincent de Paul Volunteering (Oct. 27)
A couple hours out of your Saturday morning to help those less fortunate. Saint Mary's alumnae helped out the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
Book Club (Sept. 23)
The Saint Mary's book club read Mindy Kaling's book, "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)" and met at the home of Amanda Strauss '98. You may be familiar with Mindy Kaling as Kelly Kapoor from "The Office."
Volunteer Opportunity (Aug. 25)
In August, we partnered with the Notre Dame Club and had a great time setting up Halloween merchandise and learning about some exciting new ventures at the thrift store.
Student Send-Off (Aug. 5)
The Dallas/Fort Worth area has six new and three returning students attending Saint Mary’s College this year. We sent them off with some of our best advice at our annual send-off hosted by Jennifer Kacarab Holloran ’92.
Book Club (July 22)
We read a classic, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, and discussed it over wine. Book Club was hosted by Emilie DesJardins Moreland '05.
Volunteer Opportunity
Several alumnae helped the St. Vincent de Paul Society sort, hang, and display clothes in their main store on Northwest Hwy. on Saturday, June 23.
Book Club
On May 20, Katherine Sparks '06 hosted our club to discuss the Adriana Trigiani book, Very Valentine.
Book Club
March 25, book club was held at the home of Mary Holland '05 where we discussed She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.
Book Club
Linda Kawecki '79 hosted our One Book, One Saint Mary's meeting for Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon.
Discussing the "One Book, One Saint Mary's" selection, Circling My Mother, by Mary Gordon
Rangers World Series Game Watch
We watched the Rangers in the World Series at Sherlock's Pub in Dallas in October.
Book Club
On November 6 we met to talk about, The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern.
Book Club
September 25, we met at Si Tapas and Spanish Cuisine in Uptown for a discussion about Tina Fey's new book, Bossypants.
Katy Trail 5k
We ran this fun 5k walk/run to benefit "Friends of the Katy Trail" on Thursday, May 12 and enjoyed the after-party as well.
Book Club
We read Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and meet at Emilie DesJardins Moreland's '05 house to discuss it on May 22.
St. Vincent DePaul Society Volunteering
On April 9 club members helped the St. Vincent de Paul Society for a few hours when they were in need of volunteers for their thrift store.
Book Club
Sunday, April 17 we met at the home of Ellen McQuillan Drake '92 for book club. We read The Brink by local author Mark Fadden, and Mark attended our gathering!
Saint Mary's College Student Event
In March, alumnae and admission counselors held an event for local high school students interested in attending Saint Mary’s College.
Book Club
For our last couple of book club meetings, held in November and January, we read The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan and the "One Book, One Saint Mary's" selection, The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss.
Members of our Book Club met to discuss the "One Book, One Saint Mary's" selection, The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss.
Christmas
As is tradion for our club, last year's Christmas party was December 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. We celebrated Mass, followed by a Saint Mary's Christmas dinner at the home of Ophelia Flegle Camina '78.
Student Send-Off
We had 1 new first year student and 13 returning students this year. We held a send-off with some of them at Ellen McQuillan Drake's home in August and got to reminisce about all the memories that haven't changed as well as hear about all the new additions to campus.
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