Page Turners Book Club will meet this month to discuss Prague Winter, by Madeleine Albright. Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia— the country where she was born—the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of … [Read more...]
Page Turners – August 2013 Update
August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Page Turners Book Club met in June and chose the books to be read this coming year. We believe this to be a strong group of selections. The choices were clear and most everyone was pleased and anxious to start reading. Note that there are two dates for each book because two groups meet on Mondays and the third group meets on Thursdays. September … [Read more...]
Page Turners – Summer Reading Note
July 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Page Turners Book Club does not usually meet in July or August. We will have a list of our selected books for the coming year in the August issue of the Seashore News. For more information about Page Turners you can contact: Gretchen Rask: grask707@gmail.com 489-2259 (Monday morning group), Diane Hearne: phearne4@cox.net 661-6267 (Monday afternoon … [Read more...]
Page Turners – Joint June Meeting
May 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We look forward to our June 24 meeting, when all three groups will get together at 1:00 p.m. at the Clubhouse. This is our most important meeting of the year because we vote on our selections for next year. Each group has chosen eight titles and the entire list will be e-mailed to members by June 3. ■■ Please take the time to research the titles … [Read more...]
Page Turners – Turn of the Screw by Henry James
May 1, 2013 by
Page Turners Book Club will meet this month to discuss Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, a novella published serially in Collier's Weekly in 1898 and published in book form later that year. One of the world's most famous ghost stories, the tale is told mostly through the journal of a governess and depicts her struggle to save her two young charges … [Read more...]
Page Turners – The White Pearl by Kate Furnivall
March 28, 2013 by
Page Turners Book Club will meet this month to discuss The White Pearl, by Kate Furnivall. This romantic suspense-filled fiction transports the reader back in time to WWII when the Japanese invaded Malaya shortly after their attack on Pearl Harbor. The British forces were soon overpowered, panic and chaos amongst the people erupted everywhere. One … [Read more...]
Page Turners – 1,000 White Women
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Page Turners Book Club will meet this month to discuss, 1000 White Women, by Jim Fergus. Once again, I haven’t had a chance to read this and had to rely on a review from two Amazon readers. The premise is based on an honest request made at a peace conference by a Cheyenne Indian Chief in the year 1854 to trade white women for horses. The women … [Read more...]
Page Turners – The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
January 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Page Turners Book Club will meet this month to discuss The Whistling Season, by Ivan Doig. “Ivan Doig has written another captivating account of life on the homesteads of eastern Montana in the early 20th Century. This book is centered on one of the old one-room schoolhouses that were common in rural areas of the west through the first half of … [Read more...]
Page Turners – Moloka’i
January 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Page Turners’ Book Club will meet this month to discuss, Moloka’i, by Alan Brennert. Moloka'i is an interesting novel about a young Hawaiian leper, Rachel, banished to Kalaupapa, a quarantined colony on Moloka'i, at the turn of the last century, when leprosy was a relatively misunderstood disease. The notion of the colony is fascinating and the … [Read more...]
Page Turners – Holiday Party
December 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We look forward to our December 18 meeting, when all three groups will get together at 1:00 p.m. at the Clubhouse. It is a rare opportunity to have everyone in one room. Along with greeting our friends, we will enjoy cookies and have a book exchange. Everyone that wants to participate in the book exchange should bring a gently used or new gift … [Read more...]
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