Page By page Book Club
Page by Page, the intermediate ELL book club, meets every Wednesday at 1 pm on Zoom. Each week, we discuss a few chapters from the book until we have read it all the way through.
Current selection
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman
We’ll read about 30 pages a week of this book starting July 16, 2025. Copies to keep are available at the Reader’s Advisory Desk.
“Alice Thrift, a socially inept surgical intern at a Boston hospital, is pursued romantically by shady social climber Ray Russo, until her roommate and her neighbor decide to guide Alice through the social complexities of life.“
Previous Selections
October-December 2021 – Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
December 13 2021 – “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan (short story)
January-February 2022 – Great Illustrated Classics: The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Adapted by Deirde S. Laiken and illustrated by Pablo Marcos Studio.
February-May 2022 – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
May-August 2022 – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
August-September 2022 – The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
September 19, 2022 – “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin (short story)
September 26, 2022 – “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes (short story)
October 2022 – The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
November 2022 – The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (short story)
December 2022 – “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell (short story)
January 2023-February 2023 – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
March 2023 – Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
April 5, 2023 – “One Boy Told Me” by Naomi Shihab Nye (poem)
April 12, 2023 – “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant (short story)
April-June 2023 – Hidden Figures by Margot Shetterly
July 2023 – Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
August-October 2023 – State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
October-November 2023 – The Maid by Nita Prose
December 2023-February 2024 – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
February – May 2024 – The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
May-July 2024 – Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
July-September 2024 – Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
October-November 2024 – Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
-January 2025-March 2025 – The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
April-June 2025 – Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
July-September 2025 – The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman