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It is time for our April Family Book Club! Spring is sprung and all of a sudden it feels like everything is happening at once! But, there is always time for books. (Okay, sometimes there is not time for a single thing but even in those busy months the books are there waiting!) This site is all about moms so it only seems appropriate that the books we suggest are for and about them. Plus, we live in Space City, which make our April pick all the more poignant! This month we are lifting off with The Astronaut’s Wife: How Launching My Husband into OuterRead More →

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It is time for our March Family Book Club! Who is ready for spring? This mom! Fortunately, this month’s pick is a breath of fresh air. The cover is awash in pastels and gentle hues evoking images of sunshine and better days ahead. Which is just what The Unsinkable Greta James, by Jennifer E. Smith, is about. Greta is a musician who is needing a life reboot. Check out the description below for all the details but I cannot wait to get into this one! I hope you read along with us and head over to our Facebook Discussion Group where we’ll be discussing TheRead More →

February Family Book Club

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One month down, eleven to go (and that one went fast!) – it’s our February Family Book Club! I am always so excited to have friends to read along! This month’s pick should be a lot of fun. In this wet, cold month it will be an escape to head back in to the glitz and glamour of the world of Gatsby. The February pick is Beautiful Little Fools: A Novel by Jillian Cantor. This is not your lit class’ Gatsby. This is a fun murder mystery with a lot more focus on the women in the Gatsby-verse. I hope you read along with usRead More →

January Family Book Club

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New Year, New Books – it’s our January Family Book Club! This month is going to be crazy busy and fun and exhausting and exciting and all the things! I hope you find some time to read along with us! The pick of the month is fantastic – The Maid, by Nita Prose. Molly is a maid, and yes, she get’s that joke. However, usually she is not so in tune with when people are joking at her or with her. In fact, social interactions are best conducted within a well-framed rule book. Unfortunately, her gran recently passed and was her best-friend and the oneRead More →

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It is time for the December Family Book Club! This month is going to be crazy busy and fun and exhausting and exciting and all the things! I hope you find some time to read along with us! The pick of the month is a quick read full of suspense, The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda. Being from Houston and it threw off major “Baby Jessica” vibes. If you are not from Houston (or a bit younger), Baby Jessica was a sensational news story of a little girl who fell into a well pipe. There was continuous news coverage of her rescue andRead More →

November Book Club | Picks for the entire family! @GreaterHoustonMoms

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The November Book Club has snuck up on us! These holiday times seem to make the days too short and the to-do list too long! In honor of our valuable time this month’s pick is on the shorter side. Moreover, it fits beautifully with the season as it should give you warm nostalgic memories of the first time you walked through the wardrobe and into Narnia! This month we are reading Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan. Where, we get to rediscover the magic of Narnia through a young boy who needs it and his older (extremely logical sister) who is determined to findRead More →

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The October Book Club welcomes you to real fall! (Unless you are here in Houston, then welcome to fall for a few days and then it will be hot an humid again and then it will be cold and rainy again and then it will be humid again and we repeat forever until it is summer). I am so excited for the promise of cooler weather. Something about it makes tucking in with a book so much sweeter! Don’t you agree? In honor of the season, the October Book Club pick is definitely a little on the creepy side. The Dollhouse, by Sara Ennis, checksRead More →

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The Gilded Ones, by Namina Forna Order Now Her blood proves her worth. Deka lives in Otera, a land that has ritualized the patriarchy to keep women in their place. ‘The Gilded Ones,’ Namina Forna’s debut novel, takes you deep into these themes and more. As girls reach their sixteenth year they are sent to the village temples for a ceremony to determine their purity. If their blood runs true they become a member of society. If their blood runs gold a girl is impure and sentenced to death. What is not shared about these gilded girls is that gold blood does not just markRead More →