Timberland Regional Library

PageTurners Book Discussion Groups

All book discussion groups welcome new participants! Just read the book and join the conversation.

Local participants choose the books to be discussed for the year. For more information, please contact your local library.

PageTurners Kits contain multiple copies of a book. Some kits also contain book reviews, author information, talking books and large print editions. Contact your local library to check out a Book Discussion Kit for your group.

Book Lists and Meeting Schedules

Aberdeen - Amanda Park - Centralia - Chehalis - Elma - Hoodsport - Hoquiam - Lacey - McCleary - Montesano - Mountain View (Randle) - Naselle - North Mason (Belfair) - Oakville - Ocean Park - Olympia - Raymond - Salkum - Shelton - Tenino - Tumwater - Westport - Winlock - Yelm

ABERDEEN PAGETURNERS (WEDNESDAY GROUP)
2nd Wednesday / month - 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon

6/11/2008

Titles will be chosen for the next series of discussions.

ABERDEEN PAGETURNERS (SATURDAY GROUP)
3rd Saturday / month - 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon

5/17/2008	A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini
6/21/2008	Titles will be chosen for the next series of discussions.

ABERDEEN RAINY DAY READING REVIEWS
Friday Morning (January and February only) / 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Rainy Day Reading Reviews is sponsored by the Friends of the Aberdeen Library.
A reviewer talks about the selected title, then discussion follows.

No book discussions are currently scheduled.

AMANDA PARK PAGETURNERS
4th Thursday / month - 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

No book discussions are currently scheduled.

CENTRALIA PAGETURNERS
2nd Monday / month - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

6/9/2008	Selection of titles for next season.
7/14/2008	When the Emperor Was Divine	Julie Otsuka
8/11/2008	Palace Walk	Naguib Mahfouz

CHEHALIS PAGETURNERS
1st Thursday / month - 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.

6/5/2008

Discuss what you're reading outside of the group.

ELMA PAGETURNERS
3rd Tuesday / month - 7 - 8:30 p.m.

5/20/2008

Select the titles for next season.

HOODSPORT PAGETURNERS
1st Tuesday / month - 1:00 p.m.

6/3/2008

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

HOQUIAM PAGETURNERS
1st Tuesday / month - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

6/3/2008

Join in choosing titles for the next series of book discussions.

LACEY PAGETURNERS
3rd Tuesday / month - 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

5/20/2008	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Suskind
6/17/2008	Share your favorite book discoveries and help select the next season's discussion titles.

LACEY PAGETURNERS @ THE FIRS
Location: The Firs, 426 Lilly Rd. NE, Olympia.
2nd Tuesday / month - 10:00 - 11:30 a.m

6/10/2008	Select next season’s titles.
6/10/2008	The History of Love	Nicole Krauss

LACEY SENIOR PAGETURNERS
Location: Lacey Senior Center, 6757 Pacific Ave. SE, Lacey
3rd Wednesday / month - 9:30 - 11:00 a.m

5/21/2008	Select next seasons titles.
5/21/2008	The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai

McCLEARY PAGETURNERS
3rd Thursday / month - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

6/19/2008

Gun, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society

Jared Diamond

MONTESANO PAGETURNERS
4th Thursday / month - 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

5/22/2008

Hanna's Daughters

Marianne Fredriksson

MOUNTAIN VIEW (RANDLE) PAGETURNERS
2nd Tuesday / month - 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

6/10/2008	Persepolis and Persepolis 2	Marjane Satrapi
7/8/2008	The Time Traveler’s Wife: A Novel	Audrey Niffenegger

NASELLE PAGETURNERS
1st Saturday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

6/7/2008

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

NORTH MASON PAGETURNERS
3rd Thursday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

6/19/2008

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

OAKVILLE PAGETURNERS
2nd Thursday / month - 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

6/12/2008	A Walk in the Woods	Bill Bryson
7/10/2008	Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India & Indonesia	Elizabeth Gilbert
8/14/2008	The Memory Keeper's Daughter	Kim Edwards
9/11/2008	No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II	Doris Goodwin
10/9/2008	One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd	Jim Fergus
11/13/2008	Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom
12/11/2008	Wickett's Remedy	Myla Goldberg

OCEAN PARK PAGETURNERS
1st Tuesday / month - 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

6/3/2008

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fannie Flagg

OLYMPIA PAGETURNERS
3rd Friday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

5/16/2008	The Dream Life of Sukhanov	Olga Grushin
6/6/2008	Selection of titles for next season.

OLYMPIA SENIOR PAGETURNERS
Location: Olympia Senior Center, 222 Columbia St. NW Olympia.
3rd Tuesday / month - 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

5/20/2008	The Highest Tide	Jim Lynch
6/17/2008	Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time	Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
7/15/2008	The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History	John M. Barry
8/19/2008	The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai
9/16/2008	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl	Timothy Egan
10/21/2008	Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883	Simon Winchester
11/18/2008	No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II	Doris Kearns Goodwin
12/16/2008	Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen

RAYMOND PAGETURNERS
2nd Thursday / month - 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

6/12/2008

Select books for the next season's discussions.

SALKUM PAGETURNERS
2nd Wednesday / month - 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

No book discussions are currently scheduled.

SHELTON PAGETURNERS
Normally the first Thursday / month - 6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

6/5/2008	Shadow Divers: the True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II	Robert Kurson
7/3/2008	Runaway: Stories	Alice Munro
8/7/2008	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl	Timothy Egan

TENINO PAGETURNERS
3rd Wednesday / month - 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

5/21/2008	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark
6/18/2008	Atonement: a novel	Ian McEwan

TUMWATER PAGETURNERS
1st Wednesday / month - 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

6/4/2008

The Birth of Venus: a novel

Sarah Dunant

WESTPORT READERS GROUP
3rd Friday / month - 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

5/16/2008

Becoming Justice Blackmun

Linda Greenhouse

WESTPORT EVENING READERS GROUP
2nd Wednesday / month - 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

6/11/2008	North River: a Novel	Pete Hamill
7/9/2008	The Lemon Tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East	Sandy Tolan
8/13/2008	The Omnivore's Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals	Michael Pollan
9/10/2008	Water for Elephants: a Novel	Sara Gruen
10/8/2008	Help select the titles for the 2009 book discussions. Venue to be determined.
11/12/2008	A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini
12/10/2008	Join in a holiday gathering. Venue and theme to be determined.

WINLOCK PAGETURNERS
1st Friday / month - 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

6/6/2008	One Thousand White Women	Jim Fergus
7/11/2008	Abundance: a Novel of Marie Antoinette	Sena Jeter Maslund
8/1/2008	Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen
9/5/2008	Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community and War	Nathaniel Philbrick
10/3/2008	Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia	Elizabeth Gilbert
11/7/2008	Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant	Daniel Tammet
12/7/2008	Skipping Christmas	John Grisham
12/7/2008	This session of PageTurners will include a potluck brunch

YELM PAGETURNERS
2nd Tuesday / month - 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

6/10/2008

Join in a discussion of a book to be announced.

Revised 2/28/2008

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