The Monday and Thursday afternoon Page Turners will resume their book discussions in September. The groups meet on the fourth Monday and Thursday of the month and will be discussing Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. For information on the Monday group please contact Frances at fozimec@cox.net and for the Thursday group please contact Ann and … [Read more...]

The Monday and Thursday afternoon Page Turners groups do not meet in July and August. We will resume our monthly book discussions in September. At the June 21 joint meeting the result of the two groups’ voting for books to be read in the upcoming year was revealed: ■ Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng ■ Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym ■ … [Read more...]

Page Turners Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon groups will be discussing The American by Henry James which was first published in 1876/77. The book has been described as a combination of social comedy and melodrama. James writes about the clash between European and American cultures and more specifically about the misadventures of his main … [Read more...]

For their April book the Monday and Thursday afternoon groups of Page Turners will discuss News of the World by Paulette Jiles. The story revolves around Captain Kidd, an itinerant who travels through northern Texas giving live readings of the news. Along the way, Kidd is enlisted to deliver Johanna, an orphan girl, to her long forgotten relatives. … [Read more...]

The Thursday afternoon Page Turners will meet March 22 and the Monday afternoon group will meet March 26 to discuss William Boyd’s masterful novel Any Human Heart. In a series of intimate journals, the novel tells the story of Logan Mountstuart. “Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart’s—lived from the beginning to the … [Read more...]

This month both of the afternoon Page Turners groups are discussing Julian Barnes’ novel The Sense of an Ending which was published in 2011 and awarded the Man Booker Prize. The judges took only a brief 31 minutes to name it the winner, calling it a “beautifully written book,” that “spoke to humankind in the 21st Century.” In the words of one … [Read more...]

The Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon groups of Page Turners will meet January 22 and January 25 to discuss the novel Captains and The Kings by Taylor Caldwell. “The saga of young Joseph Armagh, recently of Ireland, who promised his dying mother to care for his younger siblings . . . Joseph’s determination carries him through years of … [Read more...]

The Monday and Thursday afternoon Page Turners groups will have their semi-annual joint meeting at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 13. We do not have a book selection in December, as this is our time to socialize, enjoy fun activities and refreshments. Members are asked to bring a gently used book that they have enjoyed to share in a “blind” book … [Read more...]

For the month of November, the Monday and Thursday afternoon groups will be reading and discussing The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story behind-the-story about the courageous brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright. In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale,” master historian David McCullough “shows … [Read more...]