This month the Page Turners Book Club continues its reading of older literary fiction with Crossing to Safety, the work of Wallace Stegner, whose novel The Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize. In the words of the publisher, Crossing to Safety has been called a “magnificently crafted story brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in the … [Read more...]

This Month’s Selection—Page Turners members have chosen several older works of fiction this year, including some noteworthy novels from 20 to 30 years ago. This month’s selection, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, was published in 1988 and won the Booker Prize for literature that year. It is also the second book of the nine we are reading this year … [Read more...]

This month Page Turners will be reading Jane Smiley’s novel A Thousand Acres. The author won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1991 for this book. It is a family saga about a father who owns a farm in Iowa and his three daughters. The author based the book on Shakespeare’s King Lear. On … [Read more...]

The new year finds all three Page Turners groups returning to our regular reading schedule, and this month’s book is Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor. While looking into some reviews of this book in preparation of writing this article, I found that there was/is some confusion on the part of the reviewers as to whether the book is fiction or … [Read more...]

The Page Turners Book Club consists of three groups of approximately 10 members each. One group meets the fourth Monday afternoon of the month, and the other two groups meet separately the fourth Thursday afternoon of the month. Twice a year, in June and December, the three groups gather together to socialize and—you guessed it—discuss books. We … [Read more...]

Our book this month is the historical fiction novel The Secret River by Australian author Kate Grenville. In this book she explores the story of her great-great-great-grand- father, convict Solomon Wiseman, as portrayed by her fictional character William Thornhill. The book has won numerous awards and nominations, including the Commonwealth Writers … [Read more...]

Page Turners resumes its regular monthly meeting schedule (September through June) this month with a discussion of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. Our members suggest books and then vote for their favorites. The nine books with the most votes are the ones we read. The Lincoln Highway was the highest vote-getter by far, so that is the first to … [Read more...]

Page Turners Book Club was started by a very small group of Niguel Shores women over thirty years ago. Since then it has grown and now consists of three groups of approximately ten members each. Every spring the members suggest books for the upcoming “book club year” that runs September through the following June. The members then vote, and the … [Read more...]

June finds Page Turners reading A Fare- well to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Most people will have read this book but usually some time ago, so it will be refreshing to look at it in today’s environment. More has been written “about” this book than the number of pages that actually tell the story, so I am just including a few words from Wikipedia … [Read more...]