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...]

This month finds the three groups of Page Turners Book Club reading and discussing the latest Kristin Hannah novel, The Four Winds. The novel deals with “the miseries of the Depression and Dust Bowl years … that … shape the destiny of a Texas family.” Kristin Hannah is the author of about 20 novels but is probably best known for her highly … [Read more...]

This month’s selection is the historical fiction novel Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. This very popular book explores the lives of Shakespeare, his wife Anne Hathaway (in the book called Agnes), and their children. Interestingly, Shakespeare is never named in the book and is just referred to as “the husband,” “the father,” or the “Latin tutor.” NPR … [Read more...]

PAGE TURNERS SEPTEMBER MEETINGS The Page Turners Thursday groups meet this month at 1:00 p.m. on September 23, and the Monday group meets at 1:00 p.m. on September 27.   The Stranger’s Child by Booker Prize winning author Alan Hollinghurst                            … [Read more...]

Page Turners are on vacation! Watch for our next month when members will be reading and discussing The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst. —Frances Ozimec … [Read more...]

At their bi-annual joint meeting in June the members of Page Turners Book Club learned the results of their months-long process of choosing the books that the club will read from September of this year through June of next year.Page Turners consists of three groups of eleven to twelve members each, and between them they suggested thirty-six books … [Read more...]

The Page Turners Book Club June selection is Anne Tyler’s Redhead by the Side of the Road. Anne Tyler is one of America’s most prolific authors, having written more than 20 novels including Breathing Lessons which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “Her subject in all her novels has been the American family and marriage: the boredomand … [Read more...]

This month Page Turners will be reading the only non-fiction entry in this year’s selection of books – Educated by Tara Westover. I “devoured” this book when it first came out in 2018, and am so looking forward to the discussion in our book club. “Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.” Perhaps it would not hurt to … [Read more...]

As we approach reading the seventh book out of the nine our members have chosen for this book club year, I find myself reflecting on the diversity of authors on our list. So far we have read American (naturally!), Irish, Indian, British, and now this month, a Malaysian writer.Yangsze Cho is the author of The Night Tiger, a combination historical … [Read more...]