This month, members of Page Turners Book Club are reading The Only Woman in the Room, a fictionalized biography of Hedy Lamarr, written by Marie Benedict. This New York Times and USA Today best-seller illuminates a historical figure whose talents and achievements have largely been overlooked. Hedy Lamarr, a strikingly beautiful young actress in … [Read more...]

Page Turners Book Club will be reading this month the non-fiction Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olson. As one reviewer explains: “In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: the international campaign to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. … [Read more...]

Our selection this month is Ann Napolitano’s novel Dear Edward. I read this book when it first came out in 2020 and was the Barnes and Noble Book Club selection. In order to contribute to our book club discussion this month, I felt that I needed to read it again and am so glad that I did. This is the story of a young man who is the sole survivor … [Read more...]

This month, Page Turners Book Club members are reading author Geraldine Brooks’ latest novel Horse. A review from the Boston Globe follows: “Geraldine Brooks is one of our most gifted historical novelists ... Her pellucid prose, quiet yet compelling style, and facility with both nuanced historical detail and vibrant characterization have brought … [Read more...]

February finds Page Turners reading and discussing the very popular novel Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. To quote one reviewer, “... (it) is that rare beast; a polished, funny, thought-provoking story, wearing its research lightly but confidently and with sentences so stylishly turned it’s hard to believe it’s a debut.” Elizabeth (the … [Read more...]

The new year finds members of our book club returning to our normal schedule after all the December festivities. Our selection this month is The Woman They could not Silence by Kate Moore. “Best sell- ing author Kate Moore brings her sparkling narrative voice to ... the unput- downable story of the courageous woman who fought for her own free- … [Read more...]

Our Book Club members all get together twice a year, December and June, for a social gathering to discuss the books we have read in the club and, more importantly, other books that members have discovered. We do not have a “club book” in December so this month’s meeting on December 4 at 1:00 p.m. is very social. As mentioned in previous issues, … [Read more...]

Page Turners Book Club will be reading Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt as their November selection. Kirkus Review calls it “a debut novel about a woman who befriends an octopus … a charming, warmhearted read.” The review goes on to say, “Tova Sullivan’s best friend is an octopus. A giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus … who can, … [Read more...]

We are now into our second month reading our new list of nine books. This month’s selection is The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell. O’Farrell is an Irish author of several award-winning novels, her most recent (prior to this) being Hamnet. I recalled that we read Hamnet in the book club last October! Funny how these coincidences … [Read more...]

This month the Page Turners book club returns to its regular monthly discussion meetings. Our selection is Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Angle of Repose. “Angle of Repose tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass … [Read more...]