This month, members of Page Turners book club are reading James by Percival Everett. This very popular novel retells Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckle-berry Finn but from the perspective of the enslaved Jim (known in Everett’s version as James). The novel has won several awards, most notably the 2025 Pulitzer Prize. I found it very interesting … [Read more...]

Page Turners book club members are reading Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel Tell Me Everything (When Olive Kitteridge Met Lucy Barton). Fans of this author will enjoy meeting several of the characters from her previous books in this one. We are told at the outset that this is Bob’s story (he of the Burgess brothers) but really I think Lucy, who … [Read more...]

Our book club members are busy reading The Covenant Of Water by Abraham Verghese. Many readers will remember his wonderful Cutting for Stone, a story of complex family dynamics set in Ethiopia and the United States. In The Covenant of Water the setting is Kerala, India with a story covering three generations of a family with a most peculiar … [Read more...]

Page Turners members are not reading an assigned book this month but are instead attending our twice-a-year gathering of all three groups for a holiday book exchange on Thursday, December 18 at 1:00 p.m. in the Clubhouse. Our book club was started about forty years ago by a group of six or seven Niguel Shores women. It has since grown to … [Read more...]

Page Turners book club members will be reading The Weekend by Charlotte Wood this November. This short novel describes how “three elderly female friends reunite to clear out the home of a fourth, who recently died, in a short meditation on relationship bonds and the wisdom—and other traits—accumulated over a lifetime.” One reviewer states that … [Read more...]

Page Turners book club will be reading Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall this month. I think the following is a good summation of the book: “A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.” “Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives … but it’s also a masterfully … [Read more...]

This month Page Turners book club members return to their regular monthly discussions of the top nine books selected from the 24 suggested. If you are curious about why our “book club year” runs September through June, it is because the club was started approximately 40 years ago by a group of Niguel Shores women who had small children in school … [Read more...]

Page Turners book club resumes its regular monthly meetings in September. In the meantime here is the list of 24 books suggested by the members from which they voted for the nine books that we will read over the coming year. There are some great reads in this list beyond the nine that were the winners. Perhaps you will find some that catch your … [Read more...]

In June, Page Turners held a joint meeting of their three groups to review The Violin Conspiracy and announce the nine titles to be read during their 2025-2026 “book club year” beginning in September. The book selection process began back in April with members suggesting books for consideration. Each of the three Page Turners groups submitted … [Read more...]

In June, Page Turners held a joint meeting of their three groups to review The Violin Conspiracy and announce the nine titles to be read during their 2025-2026 “book club year” beginning in September. The book selection process began back in April with members suggesting books for consideration. Each of the three Page Turners groups submitted … [Read more...]