Book Group
Paisley and District u3a Book Group
If you are a member of Paisley & District U3A, and you wish to join us, please contact the Group Leader via the CONTACT page.
Videos:
[ Leader - Book Group ] - Dee Barnfield describes Paisley u3a's Book Group operating on Zoom.
[ Book Group Member ] - Linda Nicholl describes her involvement in the Book Group. (Approx 2:54 mins)
We are a well-established group of interested readers willing to try a range of different authors and genres, based in Paisley Library. The Library service is keen to encourage book groups and, to that end, provides sets of up to 10 books, so that readers don’t have to source and purchase their own copies.
(11pm-12pm, first Thursday of the month)
The Book Group had its first meeting in December in the new Paisley Library in High Street.
This will be our permanent meeting venue from now on. There’s no going back now as the Portacabin
where we used to meet has been removed!
Then our next Book club meeting will be Thursday, 1 February and the book we
will be discussing is
“The Trouble with Goats and Sheep” by Joanna Cannon.
We don’t always agree, and, for a book group, that’s a good thing. Often a book that provokes different opinions fuels a livelier discussion, than one on which we mostly agree. But there are always other topics to chat about!
A small group of us recently visited Glasgow Women’s Library in Bridgeton. As a relative newcomer to the area, I discovered this gem of an institution on the first Doors Open after I arrived, and am constantly amazed at how many people have never heard of it. We were lucky with the trains and it only took about half an hour to get there from Gilmour Street. We were given a warm welcome and shown around the exhibitions, managing also to get to the upstairs gallery and see some of the exhibits up there. They run many regular classes, guided walks and special events. It’s well worth a visit.
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For the rest of this year, the plan is:
Thursday 4th October: Read “Whisky from Small Glasses” by Denzyl Meyrick
Thursday 1st November: Read “Island Beneath the Sea” by Isabel Allende
Just for the completists, the books we have read so far are:
“The Chaperone” by Laura Moriarty
“The Sea Detective” by Mark Douglas-Home
“Where my Heart Used to be” by Sebastian Faulks
“May we be Forgiven” by A. M. Homes
Happy reading.