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The following group reports from Hilary Semmens unfortunately just missed our copy deadline, but thanks to the miracle of modern communications here they are now:
READING FOR PLEASURE
This group went into hibernation for the summer but will be resuming on Monday September 12th. Old hands will know that we are an open friendly bunch, all keen readers. We all take turns to introduce a book we have enjoyed and want to recommend to the others. This leads to considering a wide variety of books, old and new, classic, literary and genre, and we often find that a book it would never have occurred to us to pick up turns out to be a door into a new and wonderful world; at the morning's close presenters often find themselves with a queue of people wanting to borrow their book.
Some of us like to take the full two hours (less coffee time) on our books. Others feel happier with an hour and then we have two members presenting a book each. Obviously the bigger the group the less often the task comes round. New members would be welcome; we have lost a few to removals, care of grandchildren and so forth. I do have room and we love to make new friends.
WRITING FOR PLEASURE
This year more of the members of this group have entered the Arts Festival Short Story Competition, and if the reception they give to each other's work is anything to go on, the judges should be impressed. Personally I am proud of what they do.
Some of us have been achieving a measure of success with our stories, others have more modest goals, to learn to write a more interesting letter, a clearer report to a committee or to leave an account of ourselves for our grandchildren. But all of us are developing confidence and fluency in putting on paper what we want to say. Listening to each other every session is a really enjoyable experience. Everyone has a tale to tell and the more we write, the more in tune with our readers we get and the better we tell it.
The essence of the U3A, as I see it, is communicating to each other the skills we have acquired in our lifetime, sharing the benefits of experience. We in the writing group are improving our written communication skills. When we succeed, as from time to time we all do, in making each other share our discoveries, laugh with our laughter, quake with our fears or weep with our tears, it is a feeling beyond price.
PS. I've had some very kind feedback on my own book from U3A members elsewhere in the country, by the way.
Hilary Semmens
The following group reports from Hilary Semmens unfortunately just missed our copy deadline, but thanks to the miracle of modern communications here they are now:
READING FOR PLEASURE
This group went into hibernation for the summer but will be resuming on Monday September 12th. Old hands will know that we are an open friendly bunch, all keen readers. We all take turns to introduce a book we have enjoyed and want to recommend to the others. This leads to considering a wide variety of books, old and new, classic, literary and genre, and we often find that a book it would never have occurred to us to pick up turns out to be a door into a new and wonderful world; at the morning's close presenters often find themselves with a queue of people wanting to borrow their book.
Some of us like to take the full two hours (less coffee time) on our books. Others feel happier with an hour and then we have two members presenting a book each. Obviously the bigger the group the less often the task comes round. New members would be welcome; we have lost a few to removals, care of grandchildren and so forth. I do have room and we love to make new friends.
WRITING FOR PLEASURE
This year more of the members of this group have entered the Arts Festival Short Story Competition, and if the reception they give to each other's work is anything to go on, the judges should be impressed. Personally I am proud of what they do.
Some of us have been achieving a measure of success with our stories, others have more modest goals, to learn to write a more interesting letter, a clearer report to a committee or to leave an account of ourselves for our grandchildren. But all of us are developing confidence and fluency in putting on paper what we want to say. Listening to each other every session is a really enjoyable experience. Everyone has a tale to tell and the more we write, the more in tune with our readers we get and the better we tell it.
The essence of the U3A, as I see it, is communicating to each other the skills we have acquired in our lifetime, sharing the benefits of experience. We in the writing group are improving our written communication skills. When we succeed, as from time to time we all do, in making each other share our discoveries, laugh with our laughter, quake with our fears or weep with our tears, it is a feeling beyond price.
PS. I've had some very kind feedback on my own book from U3A members elsewhere in the country, by the way.
Hilary Semmens
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