Life of Pi

The Page Turner Book Club

 

TPTBC would like to announce that their next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 12^th @ 6pm.  It will be held at Becky’s Coffee Corner in Prosser.  Barb Shimek will be hosting this evening's discussion.

The evening will include conversations about the book;

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

Killing Lincoln; The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

TPTBC would like to announce that their next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 12^th @ 6pm.  It will be held at Becky’s Coffee Corner in Prosser.

The evening will include conversations about the book;

Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

"[Killing Lincoln] delivers a taut, action-packed narrative with cliff-hangers aplenty..."--The Christian Science Monitor

 

 

 

 Bill O'Reilly is the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, the highest-rated cable news show in the country. He also writes a syndicated newspaper column and is the author of several number-one bestselling books. He is, perhaps, the most talked about political commentator in the country.

Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history. His book Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone has been adapted into a History Channel special. He lives in Southern California with his wife and three sons.

THE LAST OF THE TRIBE ~ BY MONTE REEL

Please join us on Tuesday, Jan. 8th to discuss the book; The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save the Last Lone Man in the Amazon by Monte Reel

We will be meeting at 6pm at Becky's Coffee Corner in Prosser

Dr. Celeste' Lynn will be hosting this event.

In 1996 a  southwestern Brazillian based journalist from the Washington Post got a glimpse of a great mystery.  A rare one man tribe was discovered. The book covers the struggle between the allies of this lone Indian (which includes government employees) and the battle of ruthless ranch settlers and government bureaucracies.  Discoveries and investigations reveal the amazing jungle story of historical, economical, and national suspense.

“The Last of the Tribe is ‘Avatar’ for grown-ups, a tribe-in-peril-story with real people, complicated motives, and every bit of subtlety and nuance left out of James Cameron's cliched script. Reel's tale is expertly told: perfectly timed, thoroughly researched and descriptively written. Back stories, personal histories, character development and political context are deftly woven into the narrative, and each departure from the quest feels appropriate at the time.”

– The San Francisco Chronicle

“The fate of the Amazon rainforest is one that concerns us all. Yet as American journalist Monte Reel suggests in this excellent book, the closer you get to the problem, the harder it is to see your way clearly.... Reel teases out the paradoxes -- and high drama -- of anthropology in action. 

-- The Financial Times

“Gripping... [Reel] is good with context – the section on official Brazilian policy toward indigenous people is powerful and sad – but he’s best when he’s indulging in good old-fashioned adventure writing: Arrows fly, poisonous snakes writer through the undergrowth, and sinister ranchers lord over the boomtowns of Brazil’s Wild West. The real star here turns out to be the Amazon itself, a place thick with ‘irrepressible’ flora and a ‘gaudy display’ of fauna – a place, in short, that is ‘neither paradise nor perdition.’”

– The Washington Post

TPTBC would like to announce that their next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 11^th @ 6pm.  It will be held at 2000 Highland Drive in Prosser.  Nona Gall will be hosting this meeting's discussion.

Come join us for some festive and seasonal conversations about the book;

Christmas in Harmony by Phillup Gulley

 

Philip Gulley takes us to Harmony, Indiana, at Christmastime as inspiration strikes the inimitable Dale Hinshaw. Always looking for a way to increase the church's profit margins, Hinshaw brainstorms a progressive nativity scene that will involve the whole town, complete with a map like those for the Hollywood stars. Neither Pastor Sam Gardner nor the other members of the Harmony Friends meeting express any enthusiasm for this idea, but Dale is unstoppable. Meanwhile, Pastor Sam has his own concerns: he's having his annual argument with his wife, and he's worried that the four-slotted toaster he bought for her may be too lavish a gift.

Amidst the bustle of the season, the citizens of Harmony experience the simple joys and sometime loneliness that often go unseen. Sam comes to the realization that Dale, in his own misguided way, is only trying to draw meaning from the eternal story of Christmas. "In this unsettled world, it is good to have this steadiness -- the Christmas Eve service, the peal of the bell. . . .There is a holiness to memory, a sense of God's presence in these mangers of the mind. Which might explain why it is that the occasions that change the least are often the very occasions that change us the most."  ~ taken from Amazon's description of the book.

November 13th THE DOG STARS

TPTBC next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 13th @ 6pm.  It will be held at Becky’s Coffee Corner in Prosser.

Our discussion for the evening will include our views and perspectives about the novel;

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

 

Read below for a book review written by Leigh Newman

who writes for an the Oprah Blog, "Life Lift".

 

 

"There have been some beautifully written and truly upsetting end-of-the-world books recently—The Age of Miracles and Zone One come to mind—but Peter Heller's The Dog Stars has put a fresh twist on the genre. In this quiet, meditative novel, Hig, the main character, has lost his wife and everyone in his family due to a flu epidemic that has killed most of the population of the United States. He now lives with his dog and a survivalist neighbor on an abandoned airstrip that's regularly attacked by roving bands of very scary, violent scavengers. Despite the grimness of his life, Hig manages to see the beauty in his surroundings, and it's his voice that keeps you entranced, with vivid details like "the smell of running water, of cold stone, of fir and spruce, like the sachets my mother used to keep in the sock drawer."

There is still one loss that Hig has to bear, and the grief over this sends him flying in his single-prop plane into the wilderness without enough gas to return. Brilliantly, this isn't the end of the story, because it's the people he meets when he least expects to who change everything, proving a truth we know from our everyday nonfictional lives: Even when it seems like all the humans in the world are only out for themselves, there are always those few who prove you absolutely wrong—in the most surprising of ways."

Tuesday, October 9th

Hello Members, Potential Members and Book Club Enthusiasts....

The Page Turner Book Club would like to announce that their next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 9th.

Our discussion for the evening will consist of our views and perspectives about the book; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 

Our meeting will be held at Becky's Coffee Corner in Prosser.  (Remember to come early to get something to drink from Becky's services - she closes at 6!)  The meeting will begin at 6pm and will run until 7:30pm.

Our host for this book discussion will be Celeste' Lynn.

REMINDER:  If you forget the date for our upcoming meetings (easy to do when we're not busy reading) a good rule of thumb is to remember that they are the SECOND TUESDAY of the month.  It will be a rare event if they are scheduled otherwise.

September's Discussion

 Update:  For those of you who missed August's meeting -
We extended Les Miserables' discussion from July into August.  We discovered at this meeting that there are shorter versions of this very thick original novel......... 
We also had the pleasure to discuss Matt Bondurant's book, The Wettest County in the World.  Barb and I also shared with the group about our experience at the Meet the Author event held on August 2nd.

The “Page Turner” Book Club's next meeting will be on Tuesday, September 11th^.   We will be joining together to discuss the book; Boomerang by Michael Lewis.  Nona Gall will be our host for the evening.

 

 

We will be meeting at Becky’s Coffee Corner at 6pm.   Come a little early to get a "cup of pleasure" from Becky before the meeting starts.

Also, be sure to plan ahead and note the upcoming monthly book schedule. Those who are interested, ask at the next meeting for the sign up list if you'd like to host an upcoming meeting!!!