Our book this month is the historical fiction novel The Secret River by Australian author Kate Grenville. In this book she explores the story of her great-great-great-grand- father, convict Solomon Wiseman, as portrayed by her fictional character William Thornhill. The book has won numerous awards and nominations, including the Commonwealth Writers … [Read more...]

Page Turners resumes its regular monthly meeting schedule (September through June) this month with a discussion of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. Our members suggest books and then vote for their favorites. The nine books with the most votes are the ones we read. The Lincoln Highway was the highest vote-getter by far, so that is the first to … [Read more...]

Page Turners Book Club was started by a very small group of Niguel Shores women over thirty years ago. Since then it has grown and now consists of three groups of approximately ten members each. Every spring the members suggest books for the upcoming “book club year” that runs September through the following June. The members then vote, and the … [Read more...]

June finds Page Turners reading A Fare- well to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Most people will have read this book but usually some time ago, so it will be refreshing to look at it in today’s environment. More has been written “about” this book than the number of pages that actually tell the story, so I am just including a few words from Wikipedia … [Read more...]

Page Turners will be reading The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd this month. This work of historical fiction is based on the life of one Eliza Lucas and takes place between 1739 and 1744. Eliza was a teenager at the time and, out of the necessity to raise money to support her father’s military ambitions, she planted indigo seeds and introduced … [Read more...]

This month’s reading by Page Turners is Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, “a respected mystery writer who turns his attention to the biggest mystery of all—God.” Ordinary Grace (2013) is the author’s first stand-alone novel and referred to by the publisher as “elegiac, evocative … a resonant tale of fury, guilt, and redemption.” In short it … [Read more...]

This month Page Turners will be reading Jane Smiley’s latest novel, Perestroika In Paris. Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Thousand Acres and recently completed her very popular Last Hundred Years Trilogy. Our selection is a very different work from this author’s other writing. The publisher describes it as “a captivating, brilliantly … [Read more...]

February finds Page Turners reading The Girl From Berlin by Ronald H. Balson—the fifth installment in his Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart series of WWII historical fiction that focuses on the rise of the Nazis. While the book club has not read the four previous novels in the series, I understand the current book can stand alone. The New York … [Read more...]

  PAGE TURNERS We begin the year with the classic novel No Name by Wilkie Collins. First published in 1862, it was “condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight. No Name shows William Wilkie Collins at the height of his literaryers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and … [Read more...]

This month Page Turners will gather for our Bi-Annual Joint Meeting at 1:00 p.m. on December 20. Page Turners consists of three groups of approximately 10 members each. We all read the same books, which are selected by all the members voting their favorites. Our “book year” runs from September to June and we select nine books for discussion. We do … [Read more...]