Page Turner’s November selection is The Girl Who Wrote In Silk by Kelli Estes. Published in 2015, this was the author’s debut novel and it made the USA Today Bestseller’s List in December that year. With its blend of historical fiction and contemporary drama, fans of historical fiction are going to love this emotionally charged story of the Chinese … [Read more...]

By the time this is published all three groups of Page Turners will have had their first meeting of the new “book club year” in various locations that are different than usual because of these times of social distancing.October finds us reading a brand new novel by Irish author Anne Griffin—When All Is Said—“The tale of a single night. The story of … [Read more...]

September finds the members of Page Turners Book Club returning to their monthly discussion meetings, although perhaps in different locations than usual. As of this writing, it seems we will be meeting outdoors (locations TBD), or some may elect to meet via Zoom. In any event all three groups will be discussing The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. This … [Read more...]

Page Turners groups take a summer break and do not meet for their monthly book discussions in July and August.At the June joint meeting, members learned the results of our voting for the nine books that we will read start- ing in September and going on through June of next near. There was much excitement to see the results from the 25 books … [Read more...]

Page Turners will not meet to discuss a book in July and August since our schedule runs from September through June.Beginning from a tiny group of Niguel Shores women, the book club has grown so that it now comprises three groups of between 11 to 13 members each. We have two combined meetings, December and June, where we social- ize and have a very … [Read more...]

Page Turners held their past three month’s meetings via Zoom, and it has been an interest- ing experience with everyone learning a new technology. This month we are hoping to have our bi-annual joint meeting of all three groups in person in our Clubhouse. We will be discussing Anna Quindlen’snovel Still Life with Bread Crumbs. In the many levels, a … [Read more...]

Although we did not meet physically last month and probablywill not again this month, we are still reading and a number of our members did get together via Zoom gatherings to discuss last month’s selection, The Library Book.Our groups may try Zoom again this month to discuss The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter, Hazel Gaynor’s historical fic- tion … [Read more...]

Page Turners book for April is The Library Book by Susan Orlean. This is a novel about the disastrous 1986 fire in the Los Angeles Central Library that destroyed or damaged more than a million books. In anticipation of our club reading this book, we had scheduled a docent guided tour of the L.A. Central Library for the group on … [Read more...]

During the month of March, the Page Turners Book Club will be reading Barbara Kingsolver’s newest novel Unsheltered. This “is a compulsively readable story of two families, in two [different] centuries . . . navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it . . .” (Harper Collins). Kingsolver gives readers plenty to think about in … [Read more...]

Page Turners are looking forward to reading another novel by author Lisa See. Last year we read The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, and following that we had the privilege of interviewing Lisa See via Skype. She gave us a whole hour of her time in which we asked questions regarding that book, and she gave us a little insight to this month’s … [Read more...]