For the month of October, the Monday and Thursday afternoon Page Turner groups will be reading and discussing The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen—winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as six other awards. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to … [Read more...]

The Monday and Thursday PageTurners will begin their 2017-2018 reading season this month with a discussion of Amor Towles’ novel, A Gentleman in Moscow. The book has been praised for displaying a grace, wit and charm that contrasts dramatically against its bleak setting in 1920s Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. It should provide for … [Read more...]

PageTurners Celebrates Twenty-Sixth Anniversary Hope Luedeke, a founding member of PageTurners, recently shared a bit of the group’s history, recalling the early days this way: “My neighbor on Vista D’Onde, Barbara Crist, came to me one day during the summer of 1991 and asked what I thought about forming a book club. She and Marian Pearl had been … [Read more...]

The Afternoon PageTurners’ groups will not meet in July or August. Our list of books for the 2017-2018 reading year beginning in September is as follows: A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles A Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes News of the World – Paulette Jiles The American – Henry James The Wright Brothers – David McCullough The Sympathizer … [Read more...]

Both groups of Afternoon PageTurners will meet on Thursday, June 22 to celebrate the end of our reading year. We will discuss A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman. Refreshments will be served along with our annual book exchange. Waiting lists have been started for both the Monday and Thursday groups, which will resume in September. For … [Read more...]

The Afternoon PageTurners will discuss Clementine by Sonia Purcell, a biography of the wife of Winston Churchill. Why did Winston say victory in the Second World War would have been “impossible without her”? The Monday group will meet on May 22 and the Thursday group on May 25. For information about Afternoon PageTurners: Monday group, contact … [Read more...]

   Page Turners began in the summer of 1991 when a group of Niguel Shores residents met at the Community Center to form a book club. Currently, Page Turners is divided into three groups: Monday morning, Monday afternoon, and Thursday afternoon. The individual groups meet once a month to discuss selected fiction and nonfiction works. … [Read more...]

The Afternoon Page Turners will read and discuss The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney at the April meetings. This novel is about a dysfunctional New York family. Read and find out what money can do to relationships! The Monday group will meet on April 24 and the Thursday group on April 27. For more information about Afternoon Page Turners: … [Read more...]

Afternoon PageTurners’ will read and discuss The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. The book is the story of two sisters living in German-occupied France in 1939. The Thursday group will meet on March 23 and the Monday group on March 27. There is currently a waiting list for both groups, however, for information about PageTurners contact: Mondays: … [Read more...]