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...]

Page Turners Book Club is on vacation in August. We will resume our monthly discussion groups in September. We welcome new members and we have three groups from which to choose the most convenient time for you. One group meets the fourth Monday of the month and the other two groups meet, separately, the fourth Thursday of the month. All groups meet … [Read more...]

At our bi-annual joint meeting in June we learned the results of the voting for the nine books the club will read in the next “book club year.” We published the 21 titles suggested by the members in last month’s Seashore News and listed below, in the order of the number of votes received, are the nine winners. THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT – Maggie … [Read more...]

THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT – Maggie O’FarrellREMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES – Shelby Van PeltHORSE – Geraldine Brooks LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY – Bonnie Garmus EMPRESS OF THE NILE – Lynne Olson THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM – Marie Benedict ANGLE OF REPOSE – Wallace Stegner THE WOMAN THEY COULD NOT SILENCE – Kate Moore DEAR EDWARD – Ann … [Read more...]

Our June Selection—This month finds all three groups reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. The following is a short description of the book: “Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with … [Read more...]

The book club has been reading “older” novels so far this year, but this month we turn to the 2021 publication, The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel by Pamela Binnings Ewen. Called “top-notch historical fiction” by Publisher’s Weekly, the book describes the life of Coco Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation of Paris. “While … [Read more...]