Book Chat Group The book chat group is one of the longest running groups in our u3a, having started in late 2008. From the beginning we have challenged ourselves to read books that are outside our usual comfort zone on the premise that “If you only read the kind of novel you have always read, you can only think the kind of things you usually think”. We have combined novels with non-fiction and we feel that this stays true to the aims of the u3a movement, namely to facilitate informal learning in an enjoyable setting suitable for all mature people of whatever age.