March 2013

The Reading Group meets every third Wednesday afternoon of each month, in a member's home, for an hour and a half of literary and general discussion, over tea and biscuits. We were one of the very first groups to set up when the Totton U3A was formed and our membership of ten readers has always been fully subscribed. We have read and discussed over seventy books, which are supplied from Hants County Council Library Service and are on loan for about six weeks at a small annual fee. We read mostly fiction, from a list provided by the Library, and try to make sure that a wide range of genres are selected to cater for all tastes. However the liveliest discussions are always about books that were generally disliked. Popular and current fiction always has a very long waiting list to borrow which means that the months choice may already be familiar or have been read by some of the Group, but hopefully this doesn't happen too often. This months reading is a debut novel by Kirstan Hawkins called " Dona Nicanora's Hat Shop" about a small town deep in the jungles of South America and the hopes and dreams of the quirky characters that live there. Ann