At our bi-annual joint meeting in June we learned the results of the voting for the nine books the club will read in the next “book club year.” We published the 21 titles suggested by the members in last month’s Seashore News and listed below, in the order of the number of votes received, are the nine winners. THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT – Maggie … [Read more...]

THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT – Maggie O’FarrellREMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES – Shelby Van PeltHORSE – Geraldine Brooks LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY – Bonnie Garmus EMPRESS OF THE NILE – Lynne Olson THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM – Marie Benedict ANGLE OF REPOSE – Wallace Stegner THE WOMAN THEY COULD NOT SILENCE – Kate Moore DEAR EDWARD – Ann … [Read more...]

Our June Selection—This month finds all three groups reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. The following is a short description of the book: “Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with … [Read more...]

The book club has been reading “older” novels so far this year, but this month we turn to the 2021 publication, The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel by Pamela Binnings Ewen. Called “top-notch historical fiction” by Publisher’s Weekly, the book describes the life of Coco Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation of Paris. “While … [Read more...]

This month the Page Turners Book Club continues its reading of older literary fiction with Crossing to Safety, the work of Wallace Stegner, whose novel The Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize. In the words of the publisher, Crossing to Safety has been called a “magnificently crafted story brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in the … [Read more...]

This Month’s Selection—Page Turners members have chosen several older works of fiction this year, including some noteworthy novels from 20 to 30 years ago. This month’s selection, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, was published in 1988 and won the Booker Prize for literature that year. It is also the second book of the nine we are reading this year … [Read more...]

This month Page Turners will be reading Jane Smiley’s novel A Thousand Acres. The author won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1991 for this book. It is a family saga about a father who owns a farm in Iowa and his three daughters. The author based the book on Shakespeare’s King Lear. On … [Read more...]

The new year finds all three Page Turners groups returning to our regular reading schedule, and this month’s book is Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor. While looking into some reviews of this book in preparation of writing this article, I found that there was/is some confusion on the part of the reviewers as to whether the book is fiction or … [Read more...]

The Page Turners Book Club consists of three groups of approximately 10 members each. One group meets the fourth Monday afternoon of the month, and the other two groups meet separately the fourth Thursday afternoon of the month. Twice a year, in June and December, the three groups gather together to socialize and—you guessed it—discuss books. We … [Read more...]