Love is in the air, and not just romantic love, the love for hobbies is too, and the Page Turners Club is taking advantage of that by setting up an event for club members to discover new books.
Senior and Page Turner’s Club president, Amia De Leon, as well as senior and vice president, Kimberly Walters, set up a blind book date event in which books were neatly wrapped, with their covers hidden away, with only the genre of the book being displayed.
“We just put the genre and then people just randomly pick a book based off of the genre,” De Leon said. “So it’s really interesting cause you never know what you’re going to get.”
This was done so that books wouldn’t be judged by their covers and people could get the chance to read something they probably never would have otherwise.
“We typically do the blind date with a book through the month of February,” De Leon said. “Barnes & Noble does this too and we have a whole section in the library for it.”
During the blind book dates, they offered many different types of genres of books and had lots of variety for all readers.
“I got a historical fiction book and that was pretty cool,” sophomore Sindhu Chidambaram said. “And I know one person who got a copy of the inheritance games and that was also pretty cool.”
Chidambaram is a member of the Page Turners Club and has been a part of previous Page Turner events, including the blind book date.
“I’ve been in the Page Turners Club since freshman year and I’ve always been interested in books,” Chidambaram said. “So I was looking to see if there was a book club to join since I was in one in middle school.”
Aside from the blind book date event, the Page Turners host meetings in which members discuss books they are currently reading and give their opinions.
“One of the cool things is that even if we’re not currently reading a book, I sometimes start a book series that a bunch of other people have read,” Walters said. “And so we get to blab about that, and I was like ‘this is what I like, and this is what I don’t like’.”
The Page Turners Club is planning many more activities in the future for members to be able to enjoy for the remainder of the school year.
“We’re having a field trip and we’re taking some of our members to a book festival in a couple of weeks,” Deleon said. “So we kind of coordinated that and sent the reminders and messages to our club members.”
Page Turners welcomes all kinds of book fans to discover new books, meet new people and take part in new events being hosted.
“It’s a really fun club and there are no requirements to be in it,” Chidambaram said. “We don’t read one book at a time, we just read books individually and we all come together so I think it’s really fun and I think everyone should join.”