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.”

Augustine of Hippo

“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