All patrons and friends of the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library are welcome to join the Page Turners, the Library’s afternoon book discussion group. Our meetings currently take hybrid form: those who wish may gather in the Lovell Library, while others are welcome to join by zoom. However, we ask you to check the CHML website in case covid conditions require a fully remote meeting.

Our selection for August 9 is Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague (2020). Set in sixteenth-century England at the time of the Black Plague, Hamnet weaves biography and fiction to imagine the lives of William Shakespeare, his wife Anne Hathaway, and their young son Hamnet, who died of plague at the age of eleven. Copies of the book are available on Minerva as well as for purchase in paperback, hard cover, or kindle form. Our book for

September 13 is Charles Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (1841), also widely available through Minerva, for purchase, or for free reading online.

If you would like further information about the Page Turners or want to join our group list to receive announcements, discussion questions, and zoom links, please contact Sue Lanser at lanser@brandeis.edu or 925-6244.