u3a Reading Group
The Readers Group meet on the second Tuesday of each month. As we meet in each others homes we have to restrict our group size to 10. We are currently at capacity but run a reserve list should any of the current group leave.
Books are borrowed from Somerton Library and there is a charge of £1 per month to cover the book loan. We take it in turn to chose a book and so cover a wide range of genres and tastes – often a book we would not have chosen ourselves.
This year we are trialling a new idea and meeting in the afternoons in the winter months and then will revert to evening meetings during the summer.
Each year we try to organise a literary themed visit to tie in with a book we have read. We recently chose individual titles by Agatha Christie and later this month are going as a group to watch ‘The Mousetrap’ performed at The Octagon Theatre in Yeovil. As our most recent books have been set in Istanbul, Berlin and Cyprus, perhaps we shall have to expand our options for where we hold our next visit!
Some of the titles we have read recently include ‘The Architect’s Apprentice’ by Elif Shafak, ‘Leaving Berlin’ by Joseph Kanon, ‘Songbird’ by Christy Lefteri and ‘The Gallery of Vanished Husbands’ by Natasha Solomons. A review of some of these titles will be in the March 2023 Newsletter.