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...]

For the month of October, the Monday and Thursday afternoon Page Turner groups will be reading and discussing The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen—winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as six other awards. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to … [Read more...]

The Monday and Thursday PageTurners will begin their 2017-2018 reading season this month with a discussion of Amor Towles’ novel, A Gentleman in Moscow. The book has been praised for displaying a grace, wit and charm that contrasts dramatically against its bleak setting in 1920s Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. It should provide for … [Read more...]

PageTurners Celebrates Twenty-Sixth Anniversary Hope Luedeke, a founding member of PageTurners, recently shared a bit of the group’s history, recalling the early days this way: “My neighbor on Vista D’Onde, Barbara Crist, came to me one day during the summer of 1991 and asked what I thought about forming a book club. She and Marian Pearl had been … [Read more...]

The Afternoon PageTurners’ groups will not meet in July or August. Our list of books for the 2017-2018 reading year beginning in September is as follows: A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles A Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes News of the World – Paulette Jiles The American – Henry James The Wright Brothers – David McCullough The Sympathizer … [Read more...]