u3a

Solihull Widney

Page Turners

Status:Active, not currently accepting new members
Coordinator:
Group email: Page Turners group
When: Monthly on Friday mornings 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
First Friday
Venue: Members House

Reading is a popular activity with our U3A members and we are the third group called Page Turners.  We read a variety of books reflecting the tastes and interests of our group which makes for interesting discussions. The books we read are a wide mixture of non-fiction, fiction, humorous or crime.  Some of the authors are new and others are well established but whose work we have not read.  It may encourage us to read more of their work.

We meet in those members homes who have space for us all.  Generally we start the meeting with coffee & biscuits and general chat to catch up and put the world to rights.  Members take turns to recommend a book and that person starts the meeting with a short background summary of the author, why they chose it and their thoughts on the book.  We then have a general discussion and rate the book on a scale 1 (not keen) to 5.  It is interesting how different our views can be and this often leads to a lively discussion that is part of the great pleasure of being in a book group.

Sister by Rosamund Lupton was our September book. It is a murder mystery describing the attempts of a woman to have her sister's death changed from a suicide verdict to a murder verdict and her hunt for the killer. Spoiler alert - it is murder but I'm not giving away the culprit. Many of the group members found the moving backward and forward intime throughout the book annoying and felt it didn't help with he story telling. Some felt that scenarios in the book did not ring true such as the use of the Crown Prosecution Service to take her statement rather than the police. On the whole it was not a book that any member would go back to and i received a begrudgingly rounded up score of 3.

Our next books are

October - She's Out by Lynda La Plante

November - Out of Africa by Karen Blixan