A brand new chapter for enjoyable guide teams | Books

Zoe Williams has raised a possible drawback with guide teams, particularly the latent disinclination of members to learn books (I’ve discovered the proper guide group – we talk about problematic textual content messages, 8 June).

Our guide group has deftly swerved round this hurdle by defining it as and calling it Bishopston Not a Book Group. Books are at all times welcomed, however non-compulsory – we deal with a subject, with books as supply materials.

Many different methods of exploring the sector are potential. I keep in mind one relatively radical different the place an interpretive dance involving all group attendees, and choreographed by one member, was used to discover the complexity and confusion of quantum concept. Other periods have concerned the consumption of superb cheese to assist the studying of a guide on the historical past of English cheesemaking.
Stephen Arnott
Bishopston, Bristol

Zoe Williams’ guide group drawback (no one needs to learn the guide) can simply be solved. The guide group that I’m in chooses themes relatively than books. Currently we’re studying “any novel containing a male character you couldn’t bear to marry”. We’ve beforehand had “any book translated from Dutch or set in the Netherlands”, “a happy book” and “a book with botany in it”.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife