Ladies' Book Club
Just as water, over a long period of time, reshapes the land through which it runs, so too we are formed by the habit of reading good books well.
–Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well
2023 Piquant Page Turner Picks
January 3 – Happy New Year!
February 7- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter, Margareta Magnusson
March 7- When the Hart Speaks– Author Interview (online), Janet Hart Leonard
April 4- The Book of Hours, Davis Bunn
May 9- Evidence Not Seen: A Woman’s Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II, Diane Deibler Rose
June 6- Everything Sad Is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri
July 10- Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry
August 15 – Coolidge, Amity Shlaes
September 6- Happy Back To School!
October 3- Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather
November 7- Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
December 5- Treasures of the Snow, Patricia St. John
The Piquant Page-Turners typically meet at 6:30 PM on the first Tuesday of the month, but dates and times change.
Please contact Abigail at jabwall@gmail.com to receive monthly updates via the group email or the Piquant Page-Turner Facebook Group.
2022 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
-Irving Stone
January 3- Happy New Year!
February 1- Travels With George, Nathaniel Philbrick
March 1- Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey
April 5- The Friendly Persuasion, Jessamyn West
May 3- Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, Lisa Genova
June 7- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
July 5- A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall
August 8- Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
September 6- Happy Back To School!
October 4- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
November 1- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Mary Rowlandson (Free PDF)
December 9- The Dead, James Joyce (Dinner, The Dead discussion & the movie)
The Piquant Page-Turners typically meet at 7 PM on the first Tuesday of the month. Dates and times are subject to change.
Please contact Abigail at jabwall@gmail.com to receive monthly updates via the group email or the Piquant Page-Turner Facebook Group.
Just as water, over a long period of time, reshapes the land through which it runs, so too we are formed by the habit of reading good books well.
-Karen Swallow Prior
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
-Irving Stone
2021 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
Good books are a very great mercy to the world.
-Richard Baxter
January 11- Perfectly Human: Nine Months With Cerian, Sarah Williams
February 8- Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High, Melba Pattillo Beal
March 8- The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel, Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
April 12- The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim
May 10- True Grit, Charles Portis
June 15*- The Death of Ivan Illych, Leo Tolstoy
July 20- Live Not By Lies, Rod Dreher
August 9- Health Is Membership, an essay by Wendell Berry
September 13- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
October 11- A Gentleman From Moscow, Amor Towles
November 8- Pilgrim’s Inn, Elizabeth Goudge
December 13- Two From Galilee, Marjorie Holmes
The Piquant Page-Turners typically meet at 7 PM on the second Monday of the month. However, times and dates are subject to the fancy and whim of its members.
Please contact Abigail at jabwall@gmail.com if you’d like to get monthly updates via the group email.
Good books are a very great mercy to the world.
-Richard Baxter
2020 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 13th- Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian, Sarah C. Williams
February 10th-Fire Road, Kim Phuc Phan Thi
March 9th- Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry
April 13th- The Hawk and the Dove, Penelope Wilcock
May 11th- My Dearest Dietrich, Amanda Barratt (Author interview?)
June 8th- The Faith Of Queen Elizabeth, Dudley Delffs
July 13th- Freckles, Gene Stratton-Porter
August 10th- Persuasion, Jane Austen (Penguin Classics)
September 9th- Back to School! No Book Club.
October 12th- The Autobiography of George Muller, George Muller (Mass Market Paperback)
November 9th- TBD (Possibly: The Pilgrim Chronicles, Rod Gragg)
December 14th- “The Tenth Of December” a short story by George Saunders
2019 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 14th- Happy New Year!
February 11th- A Rumored Fortune, Joanna Davidson Politano
March 11th- Hadrian’s Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy
April 8th-The Invention Of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
May 13th- When I Lay My Isaac Down, Carol Kent
June 10th- The Butterfly and the Violin, Kristy Cambron
July 8th- Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government, Mike Lee
August 12th-Virgil Wander, Leif Enger
September 9th- Back to School!
October 14th- The House On Foster Hill, Jaime Jo Wright
November 11th- The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
December 9th-The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers, Amy Hollingsworth
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
2018 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 8th- Happy New Year!
February 12th- Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
March 12th- Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome, Ty Tashiro
April 16th- The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis
May 14th- Daring to Hope, Katie Davis Majors
June 11th- Little Women (Unabridged), Louisa May Alcott
July 9th- News of the World, Paulette Jiles
August 13th- Born A Crime, Trevor Noah
September- Back to School! (Time to start QUO VADIS.)
October 8th- Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
November 12th- TBD: (Strong Poison, The Broken Way, All the Light We Cannot See)
December 10th- Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything, Anne Bogel
The Piquant Page-Turners meet at 6:30 the second Monday of the month.
Soli Deo Gloria!
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
–Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
-Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
2017 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January – HAPPY NEW YEAR!
February 13th- An Elegant Solution, Paul Robertson
March 13th- Called for Life, Kent and Amber Brantly
April 10th- Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth
May 8th- The Moves Make The Man, Bruce Brooks
June 12th-Sherlock Holmes and the Needle’s Eye, Len Bailey
July 10th- Vinegar Girl, Anne Tyler
August 14th-The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
September- Back to School! (A great time to start The Three Musketeers)
October 9th-The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (Lowell Bair translation)
November 13th-The Awakening of HK Derryberry: My Unlikely Friendship with the Boy Who Remembers Everything, Jim Bradford.
December 11th- Snow Angels, Cathe Swanson
Soli Deo Gloria!
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
2016 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 11- HAPPY NEW YEAR!
February 8th- Caleb’s Crossing: A Novel, Geraldine Brooks
March 14th- Madman, Tracy Groot
April 11th- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Condo
May 11th- Our Town, a play in three acts by Thornton Wilder
June 13th- The Ground Beneath Us, Rachel Allord (Author interview)
July 11th- Madison’s Gift: 5 Partnerships That Built America, David O. Steward
August 8th- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
September 12th- HAPPY BACK TO SCHOOL!
October 10th- Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
November 14th-Seven Women and the Secret of their Greatness, Eric Metaxas
December 12th- Endless Christmas, Cynthia Ruchti
We meet at 6:30 on the second Monday of the month. Invite a friend!
Soli Deo Gloria!
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote